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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1952Vol. XXII, No. 8

Island Travellers

p. 30 · Read in the full issue

DR. ROBERT H. BLACK, who. with his assistant, Mr. L. Gray, departed from Sydney for the Trobriands to conduct a Malaria Control project for the South Pacific Commission in the Trobriand Islands. (See article elsewhere.) MRS.

R. THOMSON, who returned to Port Moresby with her husband late in Feb ruary, after a vacation in Europe.

M. LOUIS DE KERSTRAT. resident of Tahiti since 1939, returned there per Changchow in March, after seven months at Pondicheri, India. M. de Kerstrat, a practising Buddhist, said that, although

there are about 30 Buddhists in Tal only seven are strict followers. MISS BARBERA, of Perth, flew to New Gui to be married. Who’s the lucky m She wouldn’t say.

MR. M. DAVIES, formerly of W< and Housing Department, returned Lae, NG, after leave to work for J Stubbs & Co. Mr. Davies is a star ward in the Lae football team, wl defeated Port Moresby for the Au Island Shield last season. MR. F.

CHURCH, formerly of Works and Houi Department, Madang, NG, was invol in a motor accident in Castlereagh Str Sydney, early in February, and was recuperating when this photo was ta in March.

DR. L. ROTH accompanied a pat South from Port Moresby at the end February. He spent a week in Melboi before returning by Qantas. MR.

BIRCH, Inspector of Native Labour Rabaul, NG, returned there by Qai on March 4, after leave in Sydney.