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Walter Barker
"■TtIRST photographs of the Japan- J; ese sampan arrested in New Guinea waters for stealing trochus shell were brought to Sydney, on August 13, by Mr.
Walter Barker, of the Administra tion staff, Manus. He is a first-class amateur photographer, and, just before he left, he got excellent snapshots of the sampan and her personnel.
Sydney newspapers were eager to buy the pictures and Mr. Barker, when he joined the liner Strathaird, for London, a couple of days later, carried a broad smile —and liberal spending-money for the voyage. He expects to return to the Territory in November.
Dr. J. S. Phillips, an entomologist well-known, before World War 11, for his work in relation to “Nutfall” in the British Solomons, paid a visit to Fiji in June-July. He since has gone to Java, where, as member of a mission set up by the World Health Organisation of the United Nations, he will do entomological work in connection with the campaign against malaria in Indonesia. Dr.
Phillips has travelled widely he has been in Africa and the West Indies in recent years. He wrote a book about his BSI experiences, called Coconut Quest —and most of the edition was destroyed by the London Blitz in 1940.