Sir Maynard Hedstrom
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INABILITY to obtain, before these pages went to press, certain blocks required for illustration, compelled us to hold over, until August publication of the ar ticle describing the life and career of Sir Maynard Hedstrom. of Fiji (to which re ference is made elsewhere in this issue).
Sir Maynard has announced his early re tirement from the managing directorship of his group of companies.
The Lever family hope soon to be un ited again in Papua. Mr. Tom Leyer in pre-war davs was for some years con nected with the Steamships Trading Company. Evacuated from Port Moresby to Brisbane early in 1942, Mrs. Leyer ouickly made her services available in whatever canacitv required. She was em ployed on the outside staff of the AMP. and was also associated with the Royal Navy and Dutch forces. Young Bevan Leyer hopes to engage in mechanical
engineering.—J.H.