Of Interest To Stamp
pp. 47-48 · Read in the full issue
Collectors
It was announced recently by the Sec retary of the Western Pacific High Com missioner that postage stamps of the Peace Commemorative issues of the Bri tish Solomon Islands Protectorate and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony may be obtained from the respective Postmasters in the territories concerned and will not be on sale in Suva.
To avoid disappointment all orders should be posted without delay.
Mr. Howard Hayden, Director of Educa tifpn, Barbados, has been appointed Director of Education, Fiji, in succession to Mr. A. H. Phillips who will be retiring shortly. The date of Mr. Hayden’s arrival in Fiji is not yet known.
Dissatisfied with post-war conditions in New Guinea, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hughes are expected to return to Mel bourne shortly. They went back to the Islands only recently but prior to tjie Japanese invasion, they had been living in New Guinea for approximately 30 years.
Territorian Alex, Berry, who was mar ried recently to Miss Joy Strangman Taylor (ex-WAAF), will return to New Guinea shortly. He was a prisoner of war in Malaya and, in prewar days, was in the employ of W. R. Carpenter and Company.