Death Of Blue Lagoon Author

Henry de vere stacpoole, who gave glamour and somewhat Vic tor! on sex to the South Seas novel, died on the Isle of Wight on April 12. He was 88.

His novel, The Blue Lagoon, was the best known of his stories and had a vogue among the World War I generation. A film version was made a few years ago.

Much of it was shot in the Yasawas, Fiji.

Stacpoole lived for a time in Papeete.

Mr. George Hunt, who spent last year in Tahiti, and before that was a resident of Fiji, arrived in Sydney in April. His plans are uncertain; he is intrigued by the big and beckoning opportunities of the metropolis, but more attracted by the happy and peaceful life of the Islands.

Seven colonies of bees and queen-bees have been sent to Lord Howe Island in recent years to help pollinate fruit and vegetable crops and increase production.