Death Of Mrs. Hannah

M. Chance

rE death occurred in Brisbane on August 15 of Mrs. Hannah M Chance, wife of Mr. Sydney M Chance, well-known Papuan RM, who is on final leave prior to retirement. Mrs Chance, who was well-known' and highly esteemed—she had lived at Samarai Daru, Kikori, Kokoda and Port Moresby— was only 51; but she had been in ill health for some years. She was bitten by a cat at Kikori in 1926, and con tracted therefrom an obscure fever—her case being only the fifth of its kind known to medical science. The funeral was attended by Messrs. Wurth, McAlpine and Healey (prominent members of the Papuan Public Service), and by represen tatives of the RSAILA—the latter being a tribute to a lady who, in 1914-18, in northern New South Wales, used her splendid soprano voice to raise thousands of pounds for the Australian Comforts Fund.

Mr. M. I. Harper, well known during many years as a planter and trader in the Solomon Islands, is now a Warrant- Officer of the RANK, and is serving in the United States Navy. He has been through some interesting experiences dur ing the past 12 months.