Scholarship
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N. Guinea Memorial Scholarship First Award to Son of Missionary
WINNER of the first New Guinea Memorial Scholarship (the fund for which has been organised by the New Guinea Women’s Association of Melbourne) is Master W. H. (Bill) Ling good, of 21 Jordan Street. Malvern, son of Mrs. Essie Linggood and the late Rev.
L. I. Linggood. Mr. Linggood was a well-known member of the Methodist Mission in New Britain and lost his life in the Montevideo Maru.
Young Bill Linggood has started the new school year at Wesley College, Mel bourne. A note from his mother to the secretary of the New Guinea Women’s Association, says that “just at present his aim in life is to be a missionary and follow in his father’s footsteps.”
Scholarship Fund
THE Scholarship fund is still growing, but now at a more sedate pace.
It is, however, within a few hundred pounds of the desired target of £3,000 and the Scholarship Committee of the Asso ciation is sure that it can attain that objective although it will mean hard work.
Since the list was published last, in January “PIM” the following donations have been added: Previously acknowledged £2,612 19 4 Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Murcutt, Peronne Ave., Clontarf, NSW . . 5 5 0 Mr. and Mrs. Mark Pitt, Bogia, via Madang, NG 3 3 0 Mr. A. Richards, Inspector Expro Board, Rabaul 550 Mrs. E. E. Moore, 24 Auburn Street, Moree, NSW 5 00 Mr. C. S. Pasby, Sarang Plantation, Madang 110 Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Ron'dahl, “Ingomar,” Clare, SA . . . . 5 5 0 Colonel E. S. Appel, 17 Gleneira Road, Ripponlea (2/22) ... 110 Mr. Edgar J. Clymo, Public Works Dept., Port Moresby 2 8 0 Mr. and Mrs. Colin C. Marr, Sogeri Agricultural Station, Port Moresby District 116 Mr. Angus A. Smart, c/o B.P. & Co., Rabaul, NG 2 2 0 Mrs. Doris and Miss June Bartlett, 26 Short Street, Granville, NSW 10 0 Mrs. Phyllis L. Keenan, Finsch hafen, NG 100 Mrs. K. L. Crawley, Sogeri, Port Moresby, Papua 2 2 6 Colonel and Mrs. J. K. Murray, Government House, Port Moresby, Papua 21 00 Mr. R. V. Browne, Treasury Dept., Rabaul, TNG 220 Total to 31st January, 1947 . £2,671 15 4 Mr. D. F. McCaig has been appointed Superintendent of Fiji Prisons. He was formerly attached to the Fiji Posts &' Telegraph Department, and served with Fiji Military Forces during the greater part of World War 11.
Colonel J. E. Workman, Commissioner of Police in Fiji, has been transferred to a similar post in Northern Rhodesia. It is expected that he will leave Fiji about the end of April. His successor has not yet been appointed.
The largest mail to reach Fiji since 1938, arrived in Suva, on January 13 by the SS “Marine Phoenix.” The consignment con sisted of 500 bags of assorted mail but the staff of the Suva Post Office had made a complete clearance by 1 p.m. on the same day.