About Islands People

Rev. Owen G. Parry, formerly an Islands missionary, is now a chaplain with the forces on an operational front.

“The job is interesting, busy and scat tered: but there are limits on the possi bilities of travel,” he writes. “I expect to return in one piece: but there are certain risks about the business, after all.”

Captain Kettle is still in command of the auxiliary schooner, “John Williams,” which ran for so many years in the Cen tral Pacific service of the London Mis sionary Society. Captain Kettle planned retirement a couple of years ago; but the war has upset all that. When the vessel left Suva, some time ago, she had aboard the Rev. G. H. Eastman, well known LMS missionary.

Mr. W. T. Martin, of Suva, who is leav ing Fiji for active military service, was farewelled on March 30, by past and present members of Signals personnel of the Fiji Military Forces. Mr. Martin was closely associated with the formation of the Signals unit of the FMF.

Miss Muriel Margaret Mason, only daughter of Mr. W. D. Mason, of San gara rubber plantation, Papua, was mar ried at Woollahra, Sydney, on April 28, to Mr. G. S. P. Cotton, of Wellington, New Zealand.

Mr. Malcolm Brodie, managing director of the Pacific Biscuit Company, Suva, has been appointed the Fiji Competent Authority to control the import, storage, distribution and turnover of the Colony’s requirements in flour and sharps. He assumed duty at the end of March.

Mr. A. J. Downing, of the Establish ment of the High Commission of the Western Pacific, has been appointed to service as clerk and accountant in the New Hebrides.

Mr. P. Colley, of the Establishment of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, has been appointed Acting Brit ish District Agent, Efate, and Comman dant of the Constabulary (British Divi sion), New Hebrides.

Mr. F. W. P. Roe, who was manager for Burns Philp & Co. at Wallis Island for a number of years and who, for the past four months, has been on leave in Sydney, has gone to take up a position with the firm in Lautoka, Fiji.

The Rev. C. F. Gribble, of the Methodist Mission in Tonga, has resigned from his position as principal of Tabou College to become Director of Education with the Tongan Government. His place has been filled by the Rev. Eben. V. Newman, of New South Wales.

The Revs. Hanneman and Frericks, missionaries from USA, who were for merly attached to the New Guinea Lutheran Mission, are now in Queens land, and have recently addressed con gregations at loswich and Rosewood (Qld.).