Mr. W. W. Bolton

Now 85 Years Old

From Our Tahiti Correspondent

Mr. William Washington Bol

TON—a Master of Arts (Cantab), historian, scholar, world traveller— like many wise men before him, has found tranquility on a Sabine farm. Here, as with Horace— “ Hie Tibi Copia Manabit ad Plenum Benigno Ruris Honorum Opulenta Cornu.”* But, instead of the fruits and flowers of Italy one will find papaya, bananas, pineapples, avocado pears, exotic flowers, enclosed in a trimmed hedge of the Eng lish countryside, and an entrance through

a lich-gate. This garden is named “The Bower.”

Somewhere on his travels —it may have been in Java or, perhaps, among the snow peaks of North-west Canada, or in some remote glen of his beloved England—Mr.

Bolton drank at the Fountain of Eternal Youth. At “The Bower” is a “Fons Bandusiae” from which flow the waters of contentment.

Mr. Bolton will celebrate his eighty fifth birthday on July 3, 1943. All of us, who respect and honour him, wish him many happy returns of the day. * “Here abundance with horn of plenty shall flow for thee to the full, rich in all the glories of the country.”—Horace, Book 1., Ode 17.

The School of Tropical Medicine, Uni versity of Sydney, is conducting a short course on Tropical Sanitation, etc., for individuals who have had no previous training in the field of medicine, and who may wish to live in the tropics at some future date. The course is open to any one and free of charge. Lectures take place on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 2 to 3 p.m., in the School of Tropical Medicine. The course might be of value to Islands residents at present

in Sydney.

Mr. Bolton, in his garden in Tahiti.