Judge “Monty"

Phillips

Marriage in London

rE marriage was celebrated at the City of London registry office of Wing-Commander Frederick Beau mont Phillips, RAAF, with Corporal Jean Briton-Smith, WAAF. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Briton-Smith, Central Terrace, Wellington, NZ, a few weeks ago.

Wing-Commander Phillips, who is attached to RAAF headquarters, London, is a former judge of the Supreme Court of the Territory of New Guinea, and was

granted leave of absence when he joined the RAAF in 1940. He is a son of Mrs. C.

A. Phillips, C a m b e rwell, and the late

M R. J. B.

Phillips, for ni er 1 y of Hampden, Vic.

Cpl. Briton- Smith, who is also attached to RAAF

headquarters as a driver for Air Vice- Marshal Wrigley, has been in England for about seven years.

Judge Phillips was popular and highly esteemed in New Guinea. He was a Lands Commissioner in the Solomons in 1920-25; Magistrate in New Guinea in 1925; Supreme Court Judge in 1928; Chief Judge (when Judge Wanliss re tired) ,in 1938. He rendered distinguished service in the Rabaul eruption in 1937 when, in the absence of the Administra tor and Deputy Administrator, he took charge of the situation and directed the evacuation. For that, he was awarded the CBE. He had served in World War I; and, when World War II came in 1939, although he was 49 years old and car ried the permanent scars of his flying service in 1918, he insisted orV'doing some sort of a job.” He went to London in 1941, to an important RAAF post. Hun dreds of Pacific Islands friends will send him their good t wishes.

It is a coincidence that the marriage of Judge Phillips in London was an nounced almost simultaneously with the death in Melbourne of Judge Wanliss, whom Judge Phillips succeeded.

Wing-Com. F. B, Phillips.