Information Wanted About

Lincoln J. Bell

ANYONE who was with Lincoln J. Bell at the time of or after his escape from Rabaul, in 1942, is asked to communicate with his wife, Mrs. J. Bell, Oatlands Hotel, Oatlands, Tasmania. This matter is urgent and is required to enable a claim to be made for pay, etc in respect of service with the armed forces from February to July, 1942, when Mr Bell was mustered and commissioned bv the Navy. [Ed. Note: Lincoln Bell, who was well known in New Guinea before the war, is at present “missing.” Subsequent to his escape he did several jobs while attached to the Navy and later was with a patrol from the Markham to; the Rai Coast. No word has been heard of him since, although it is believed that he was killed by hostile natives. An inquiry is believed to have been held on.the matter but no official findings have been so far announced.] Mr. R. H. Garvey, for many years a prominent administrative officer in Fiji and the British territories in the Central Pacific, arrived at St. Vincent late in 1944 to take up his new duties as Adminis trator of St. Vincent, Windward Islands (British West Indies). Sir Harry Luke, a former Governor of Fiji, and now the Chief Representative of the British Coun cil in the West Indies, made his first offi cial call at St. Vincent in December, and spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Gar vey. Sir Arthur Grimble, formerly well known here as Resident Commissioner in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, is now Governor of the Windward Islands, with headquarters at Grenada.