About Islands People
pp. 119-120 · Read in the full issue
Lady Ragg, the popular wife of Sir Hugh Ragg, of Suva, Fiji, underwent a completely successful operation for sinus trouble, in St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, in November. She is booked to return to Fiji on December 8.
Mr. Stig Hansson (“Jules Sylvain”), a Danish writer and composer, recently re turned to Copenhagen after 19 months in the South Pacific, mostly Fiji, where he wrote a series of Islands articles that attracted wide attention in the Scan dinavian Press. In a letter to Mr, J.
Downing, whom he met in Fiji and with whom he stayed while passing througn Sydney, Mr. Hansson said that all the music he composed while in the South Seas will be broadcast over the Scan dinavian radio network of “Danish Broad casting” on November 21. The final item of the recital will be a work for piano and orchestra entitled “Syncopated Lagoon,” reminiscent of Fiji.
Mr. Russell R. Foreman, a young Aus tralian author, whose book on the Aus tralian artist, Max Meldrum, under the title of “The Science of Appearances,” was recently published,, was in New Caledonia in September and went on to Fiji in October, travelling and seeking material for a South Seas book.
Father Scanlon, SM, of the Marist Mis sion, left Sydney recently for Torokina, Bougainville, TNG, to take up new duties.
He formerly was on Guadalcanal, BSI, having been a member of the Mission field staff since 1935.
Mr. Pat Costello, well-known Fiji resi dent, arrived in Sydney from Suva, by
way of New Zealand, at the end of Oc tober. He was on his annual visit to Victoria to see the Melbourne Cup. Later, he proposed to tour Queensland by car’, before returning to Fiji early in De cember. He was in high spirits when he passed through Sydney, a few days before
the Melbourne Cup was run—he had taken an early double for a tidy sum coupling Grey Boots and Silver Buzz, and Grey Boots had just got the first leg in by winning the Caulfield Cup. However, Silver Buzz finished practically at the tail-end of the Melbourne Cup field.
When M. Sarraut, a Councillor of the French Union, called at Port Vila to meet French Colonials and discuss their prob lems, he was handed a request bearing
the signatures of 58 colonists who asked that the New Hebrides should be given an official representative in the Paris As sembly.