Solomon Islanders
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IN his address on “The Solomon Islands’’ before a large gathering of members of the Royal Geographical Society in Brisbane, on October 24, the Rev. A. Hedley Abbott said that it had been found that the Solomon Islander was capable of considerable development.
If wisely planned and handled by the Government and missionaries, he thought the post-war training of the natives should give the Solomon Islanders the opportunity for which they were now ready.
Mr. Abbott lived in the Solomons from 1904 to 1920; and during World War I, was acting-secretary to the Resident Commissioner and Magistrate.
He is now living in Wooloowin, Bris bane,
A New Caledonian nurse, Mil© Marcelle Jorda, who served with the French ex peditionary corps in Indo-China, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre with star, for exceptional devotion to duty during 18 months’ hostilities. The award states that in the course of rebel attacks, and in country infested with rebels, she showed a remarkable disregard for danger. She is now in Paris.