W. Samoa Champion

Captain G. J. Webster, Marine Superin intendent for the Western Pacific High Commission, has left Fiji for Tulagi, in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate where the Marine Superintendent’s head quarters are in future to be.

The Rev. W. H. D. Hartley, Anglican Vicar of Levuka, Fiji, was hit by a car outside Levuka Hospital recently. He suffered some injuries to the head, and was admitted to hospital, where latest reports say he is making satisfactory pro gress.

Mr. W. F. Hargreaves, who has been manager of the Suva branch of the Bank of New South Wales for the past five years, has left for New Zealand on trans fer.

Sir Henry Scott and Dr. C. J. Austin have returned to Suva from New Zealand, where they have been attending a meet ing of the Lepers’ Trust Board at Christ church. This organisation cares for all the lepers of Fiji and most of Polynesia.

At the meeting Dr. Austin showed films of the Fiji Leprosy Hospital, Makogai, and described the work being done there with the new drug, Mr. W. M. Folkard, who has spent over 30 years in the South Pacific, and who has in recent years been acting as Con troller of Imports and Foreign Exchange in Fiji, has gone to New Zealand on leave, ‘ Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rose and their two children, of Bulolo, NG, are holidaying at Southport, Queensland.

Suivai Paiena, the new heavy-weight champion Western Samoa. On November 7 he knocked it the former champion Motu (see article age 64, this issue).