Canton Island
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Interesting Life On
MAJOR E.E. LLOYD, who will be re membered as a member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Fiji during- the war, with Mrs. Lloyd and their six-year old daug-hter, Pippa, was in Auckland on leave in April.
Major Lloyd was seconded from the NZEF during- the war to become secretary to the Government of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony with headquarters at Tarawa. Later, he became District Officer on Ocean Island, where his wife and daug-hter joined him: and eighteen months ago the Lloyd family was trans ferred to Canton Island.
Canton and Enderbury Islands form a condominium which is governed jointly by Britain and America.
Interviewed in Auckland Mrs. Lloyd said that when she first went to Canton she was the only European woman there; later she had been joined by the wife of the American naval commander. She en joyed the life which was made interesting by the almost daily arrival and departure of trans-Pacific aircraft.
Major and Mrs. Lloyd expect to return to Canton Island in July. Their young daughter will stay at school in New Zealand.
Mrs. Gavin Gemmell, of Papua, re cently gave a luncheon party at Len non’s Hotel. Brisbane, in honour of the approaching marriage of Miss Mary Wil son to Dr. Warwick Arrowsmith.