Death Of Mr. D. Garter

NOUMEA learnt with regret of the re cent death in Sydney of Mr. Douglas Carter at the age of 72. For many years he was manager of the great Tie baghi chrome mine in New Caledonia, and on his retirement he continued in mining as analyst and chemist in which capacity he rendered the Colony much service. After the recent war he gave up residence in New Caledonia and went to Sydney, but he continued his interest in the French Colony with whose history he was far better acquainted than are most lifelong French residents.

Mrs. Lucy Brodie, of Lae, New Guinea, arrived in Sydney in January, on hoh» day Most of the members of her family are’now settled permanently in Papua- New Guinea.