Returned On "Montoro"

Captain Bill Money left Brisbane for New Guinea by the “Montoro” on July 10.

He is one of the “Big Six” who discovered gold at Edie Creek and has been in the Territory for 28 years.

Mr. B. F. Blackwell, who represented the Fijian Government and the Western Pacific Commission in Sydney during the Pacific war years, assumed duty as Assist ant British Commissioner in the New Hebrides in March. The British Com missioner in the New Hebrides, Mr. R. W.

Blandy, 0.8. E., is at present away on long leave.

Mr. R. A. Laws, now a director of Robert Gillespie (New Guinea) Ltd., spent a fortnight in July in the Australian Ter ritories, mostly in Port Moresby and Lae.

Mr. and Mrs. Bill Royal left Melbourne, Australia, in June on the first stage of their journey back home to Wewak, Man dated New Guinea, which they have not seen since the evacuation of 1942.

Momoe, the widow of the late High Chief Tanu Malietoa, and the mother of the present holder of the title, died in West ern Samoa on June 24 after a long ill ness. She was 67 years of age. Her funeral was attended by the Administrator, repre sentatives of the Administration and members of both the European and Samoan communities.

, Among passengers who returned to the New Guinea territories on the “Montoro,” which left Sydney on July 8, were: Mr. and Mrs. W. Rowley, well-known in pre war Morobe mining circles.

Mrs. D. Bennett, who was going to Lae to join her husband, who is an engineer with the PWD. Mrs. L. Burston, who will rejoin her husband on Dylup Plantation, near Madang.

Mrs. R. J. Booker, who will rejoin her hus band on Pak Plantation, Admiralty Islands. Mr.

Gilbert Renton, well-known Territorian of pre war Rabaul. He returns for the War Damage Commission in Port Moresby.

(See also Page 5.)