News Of Ivan Tait
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ANY news of Mr. Ivan H. Tait, for many years in the employ of W. R.
Carpenter & Company, Ltd., in New Guinea, would be gladly received by Mr.
W. Tait, Box 89. PO, Timaru, NZ.
At the time of the Japanese occupa tion of New Ireland in January, 1941. Mr.
Ivan Tait was employed as WRC’s Branch Inspector in Kavieng, and nothing has been heard of him since the Japs landed.
Mons. and Madame E. M. Jocteur are visitors to Sydney at present. M. Jocteur has been a planter in the New Hebrides for over 40 years. He saw Sydney last in 1898; and. after seeking vainly in Circu lar Quay for Central Station, he remarked bitterly that the city has changed con siderably.
The death of Mrs. M. G. Williams occurred in early December, in Suva. She was formerly Miss Iris Anderson, and a member of an old Fiji family. She had been seriously ill for many months.
Mr. H. St. Clair Stronge, who formerly managed Berande Plantation on Guadal canal, BSI. and who for the 18 months previous to 1941 was successfully gold mining on the island, is at present serv ing with the American forces in the Pacific.
It was announced in Suva, Fiji, on December 7. that Mr. J. I). Rankine, who has' been Assistant Colonial Secretary (War) in the Colony since December, 1942. has been appointed Colonial Secre tary. Barbados, West Indies. He will leave Fiji soon after the arrival of the new Governor, Mr. Alexander William Grantham, from Nigeria.