Elephantiasis

Success of Campaign Against Filarial Mosquito

11HE campaign conducted against the filarial mosquito (cause of elephan tiasis) in recent months, in Raro tonga. by Mr. D. W. Amos, has had remarkable results, Mr. Amos departed by plane on November 20, but he has left behind an organisation that should do much to control the greatest curse of the Polynesian islands —filariasis.

The campaign will be extended to Tonga and Samoa.

An article describing Mr. Amos’s work and methods will be published in the “PIM” in January.

Mr. A. G. Forbes, who has been Solic itor-General in Fiji, has now been trans ferred to the Malayan Union as Legal Draughtsman. He and his wife left the Colony early in December to spend a period of leave in the United Kingdom.

Travelling To

N. Caledonia

PASSENGERS who left Sydney on the “Capitaine Illiaquer” for Noumea, New Caledonia, on November 20, were; TOP: H. Guillemot, a former resident of New Caledonia, return ing for a brief visit; he now has a manufacturing business in Syd ney. Madame Sautot and M.

Henri Sautot, New Caledonia’s popular wartime Governor, who made history as the first French Colonial Governor to declare for dc Gaulle. He later became Governor of a French Colony in Africa, but has now retired and will live in New Caledonia. LOWER: Mile. C. Debien, who returned to a coffee plantation near Noumea, after a vacation in Sydney. M.

Roger Thenard, en route to the New Hebrides. He has been serv ing in the Fighting French Navy.