Well-Known Levuka
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Hostess
Dr. G. H. Vernon, possibly the best known man in Papua, who served in ANGAU throughout the Pacific war years and who was in charge of the native base hospital in Port Moresby until recent months, has now been dis charged from the Army. Writing at the end of February he said that he had been waiting in Port Moresby for the past three weeks for something that would float or move to take him down to his plantation, at the eastern end of the Territory. The general opinion in the Territory, he said, was that eventually things would settle down to the state of progress that existed 20 years ago.
This photograph, taken recently in Fiji, shows Mrs. Salote Kaad and her first great-grand daughter. Mrs. Kaad is the widow of the late Capt. Christian Kaad, who founded Robbie, Kaad & Co., an old Levuka-Rotuman firm of island traders which was subsequently bought out by Burns Philp (SS), Ltd.
The Kaads owned Wakaya Island and had a fine home in Levuka, where they entertained generously. Mrs. Kaad was one of the famous hostesses of the South Pacific in those days, and she is still remembered with affection by those who accepted her hospitality, although many of them are now a long way from Fiji.