Address Wanted

ANYONE knowing the fate or where abouts of Mr. J. W. Gruesser, who was a planter on Lihir Island, off the coast of New Ireland, prior to World War 11, is asked kindly to communicate with the editor of the “Pacific Islands Monthly.”

Professor E. W. Gifford, of the Uni versity of California, accompanied by Mrs. Gifford, arrived in Suva on March 24. They intend to spend about six months on a programme of archaeolo gical reconnaissance and excavation in the Colony. Professor Gifford is interested in problems of Polynesian cultural and racial origin, and his aim is to determine by archaeological research whether or not Fiji was the rallying ground of the Polynesian ancestofg before they entered Polynesia proper. In 1920 and 1921 he conducted anthropological studies in Tonga and he has published a series of papers on his research work there.

Mr. T. C. Barclay, who is on the staff of the Loloma Gold Mines, Fiji, returned to the Colony recently after his first trip to Australia in five and a half years.

Before he left Brisbane he said that he thought Australia had changed a great deal and that he would be glad to get back to Fiji.