New Australian Verses

FOR those who like Australian verses of “The Man From Snowv River” type, the poems of Edward Harrington, in a small booklet called “The Kerrigan Boys—And Other Australian Verses.” will have some appeal. This booklet is put out by W. Andrade, of 276 Collins Street, Melbourne, and is priced at 1/6.

Harrington—who has had many of his poems published by the “Bulletin”—writes about such robust subjects as bush rangers, fossickers. stockmen and drovers; but his verses are more typically Aus tralian than the surrealistic tripe that is dished up these davs as the true poetrv of the age. and the manifestation of Australia’s “soul” gone cultural.

Ratu G. W. Lalabalavu, Mr. Arthur Groom and Mr. R. A. Crompton have been apnointed to act as members of the Com mittee of Management of the Fiji Ser vicemen’s After-care Fund, during the absence from the Colony of Captain E.

P. Cakobau, 2nd Lieut. P. Lobendahn and the Rev. S. G. Cowled, CF.

A Caledonian soldier. Sergeant Camille Mercier, captured at Bir Hacheim, recently managed to escape from an Italian prison camp, but he was recap tured and is now again a prisoner, this time in Germany, whence he writes that he is in good health. Some of his com patriots had better luck and managed to get over the Swiss frontier.

The Rev. C. S. Bull, of the Anglican Mission, who recently returned to Aus tralia from Polynesia, because of his wife’s bad health and subsequent death, is now anxious to return to the mission field.