"Morinda" Passengers

Mrs. Jim Cromie left Melbourne at the end of May to join her husband, who has re-started practice as a solicitor in Port Moresby pending settlement of the question as to whether the Mandated Territory and Papua will be combined under one Administration or not.

Photographs taken just before SS “Morinda” sailed from Sydney on May 28. They show (from top to bottom): Mrs. N. Buffett and Mr. Richard Bataille, who were both destined for Norfolk Island. Mrs.

Buffett has just completed three months’ holiday near Sydney; and Mr. Bataille is returning to a Government position, after five years’ Army service.

Mrs. V. McBean, who, after five months in Sydney, is returning to her husband, on Lord Howe Island, with their month-old son, Ross John McBean. Shown with her is Master Michael Downing, son of Dr. J. Downing, a Western Australian, who has been appointed Government medical officer of Norfolk Island.

Mrs. Page with her four children and native nurse, who is returning to Vila, New Hebrides, where her husband is Government surveyor.

Mr. P. Egan is making his first trip to the Islands. He was a sergeant in the Canberra Police Force and has been transferred to similar duties on Norfolk Island.