"Pim" Says "Au Revoir"

To Its Staff

SELWYN Hughes, whose efficient, unos tentatious work as my assistant over several years simplified many edi torial duties, and enabled me to spend an unharassed month now and again in the Islands, is now LAC Hughes, of the RAAF. One of these days, after train ing is finished, he will be a pilot, or an observer, or an air-gunner—he does not care which, so long as he can assist in placing a bomb or a bullet where it will do most good.

Mr. Hughes came to my office, as a very junior clerk, twelve years ago, when the “PIM” was a very junior publication.

They grew up together—the “PIM” to win friends all over the pre-war world and Selwyn to establish himself as a very competent young journalist. From 1938 until 1942, he was assistant editor of “PIM”, and editor of several periodicals published by Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Ltd.

Mr. Brian Stein, another of my valued young assistants, who will be remem bered by many Pacific Islands travellers as the “PlM’s” reporter and photo grapher, is now a husky sergeant of transport.

Readers will forgive me if I do not personally answer their frequent letters.

I am somewhat busy, these days.—

R.W.R.