Slow Rehabilitation

in BSI News From Mrs. Georgina Seton of Choiseul

I TITLE has been heard of the Solomon 1J Island planters who returned last year to BSI in the Melanesian Mission ship Southern Cross.

Some word has come, however, from Mrs, Georgina Seton. wlio returned to Luti Plantation, Choiseul, at that time with her husband. Mrs. Seton it will be remembered, wrote the popular thriller “Bring Another Glass.” Now she seems to be more concerned with garden ing and raising chickens than in writing.

In a letter to a Sydney friend she says: “I have been busy gardening and trying to rear poultry. The birds were in crates for nearly six weeks on the Southern Cross, a couple of weeks in a yard at Honiara, Guadalcanal, and crated again for the trip home to Choiseul in a small cutter. I have had some losses but 1 breathe a bit easier now that I have 30 young chickens and I hope, as well, lhat all the duck-eggs now in the process of hatching will come out.

“We were short of food for a while and everything here is at a standstill.

Mr. Noel, the Resident Commissioner, has now returned from England and is trying to get things moving. We are lucky and have 30 boys and can get all we need; but elsewhere plantations and mines are held up for lack of labour.”