Death of C. S. Evennett

A YOUNG member of a well-known Territory family, Colin Stephen Evennett, 22 years old, was drowned at Port Moresby on June 2.

It seems that on the night of June 1 a party was held aboard the Adminis tration ship Nivani of whch Evennett was the Master. At the time the ship was moored near the Steamships slipway undergoing repairs before being returned to its base at Samarai. The last guest at the party left in the early hours of Satur day morning, and apparently Evennett went to sleep on the upper part of the ship. 'A folded lifejacket and a pair of boots were found there later.

In the morning Evennett was not about and it was thought that he had gone into town, but about two o’clock in the afternoon his body was found floating in the water near the ship. Prom the evidence it seems that he had probably slipped and fallen into the water at night, striking his head in the fall and being rendered unconscious.

His body was flown to Samarai for burial.

A London businessman writing to the editor of the PIM says: “As a matter of interest, I know you and others will be glad to learn that Mrs. Ursula Harris has been successful in getting Biua planta tion going again on Djaul Island. A very decent laddie named Hitchcock has taken it over and it is running again—at last.”

Three Frenchmen, one of them, Mon sieur Pierre Plossu, an engineer, have arrived in Noumea to undertake the im provement of Noumea’s water supply from the Dumbea River area. They are work ing for the local company responsible for Noumea’s water supply and sewerage system.

Mrs, Norman Wiles, a SDA missionary who has been in Papua for the past 20 years, was on leave in Melbourne in June.

Mi’s, Wiles was taken to Pitcairn Island by her parents, Pastor and Mrs. E. S.

Butz, also of the SDA, when she was 8months old, and she has been on Pacific mission stations ever since.