All-Time High!

AFTER three months’ health recupera tion in Australia, Mr. Frank E. Exon returned in June to his lob in Suva (he is Fiji manager of Amalgamated Wireless) ’TOO per cent, fit.” In New Caledonia (he was travelling Panair) Mr.

Harold Gatty joined the air-liner; and, just to keep that cheery optimist on his toes, Exon reminded him of what often happens to Trans-Pacific craft when he (Exon) travels on them. The “Niagara” was blown up: a TEA plane just made Lord Howe Island. The Panair man responded nobly; “and,” reported Exon,

“we had my all-time high in whisky and-soda—at 10,000 feet, at 250 mph, at 1 dollar 75 cents.” But his envious friends do not know, yet, whether he was speaking in terms of altitude or currency.

The appointment of Mr. William James Johnston as a Magistrate for all native matters in all districts in Panua was gazetted in the Papua-New Guinea Gov ernment Gazette of June 10.

With The "Southern Cross" In Suva

The Melanesian Mission’s vessel “Southern Cross’’ is now chartered to the British Solomon Islands Protectorate pending the appointment of a successor to Bishop W. H. Baddeley. In May the vessel visited Fiji, for the first time in its history, where this photograph was taken. Several members of the Mission were on board, including those shown here. From left to right: Captain H.

P. Upward; Sister N. P. Talbot, of the Mission Hospital on Malaita; the Venerable H. V. C. Reynolds, Administrator of the Diocese; Sisters Gwen and Madeleine, of the Community of the Cross; Chief Officer, Mr. G. Hoare; and Second Officer, Mr. S. G. Higgs.