Answers To Correspondents

GPB (Rabaul) Mr. Gordon Thomas advises: Harry Elkington died at the Ramale mission station just before the Australians came in to relieve us in September, 1945.

His grave lies next to old Mrs. Kumann- Juker’s. His death was due to dropsy.

But of his wife I know nothing; I didn’t know he had a wife living, though I have an idea he had a daughter somewhere in Australia. In “PIM” of Sept., 1945, the name Mrs. Heins, 36 Plimsoll St., Sans Souci, NSW, appears as Elkington’s next of-kin. If that is not enough, you should send an enquiry on to Department of External Territories, Canberra.

C.H. —“I recall a conversation I had with you in 1937, regarding the danger you expected from Japan. I have never forgotten how well you outlined what was to happen—and what did happen in 1941-42.” Thanks—but to say “I told you so!” is little compensation for trag edy. We see terrible danger to the South Seas to-day from the twin (and allied) menaces of Asiatic overcrowding and Muscovite Communism: but the people most concerned are as indifferent and careless to-day as they were in 1937.

Mr. J. W. Sykes, left Suva in November for New Zealand en route for the United Kingdom, on vacation leave.