Hammett Family Get Best
p. 80 · Read in the full issue
Out of Life
From Our Own Correspondent
Honiara, June 20.
MR. J. C. HAMMETT’S family settle ment in the Shortlands, ESI, is flourishing. He now has two daughters and sons-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
L. J. Ruglen and Mr. and Mrs. E. O.
Gurney, and a son, Mr. P. H. J. Hammett and his wife, to make up the family party.
Mr. and Mrs. Ruglen are now estab lished on their own property in the Shortlands, and the other members of the family are at Laumono with Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hammett. Two small grand children have been at Laumono for some time, and a daughter, named Lynnette, was born recently at Buin hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Ruglen.
Mrs. Gurney went into hospital at Nila recently to wait for the arrival of another addition to the clan. There is no Euro pean hospital at Nila, so the Roman Catholic Mission convent was made avail able to Mrs. Gurney as a temporary measure, with Mrs. Clara Scott, who is a fully trained nursing sister, in atten dance.
The family is resisting the temptation to hit the headlines with the announce ment "Baby Born in a Convent.”
All the members of the family are well, and Mr. Hammett is going ahead with improvements to Laumono, which is already one of the most attractive home steads in the Solomons and producing well.