Pacific Travellers
pp. 106-107 · Read in the full issue
ISLANDS travellers who left Sydney ing February included (left to t top to bottom): — MR. & MRS. M. NEEDHAM and S returned to Raua Plantation. Boui ville, after four months’ leave.
Mr. I. W. Thistlethwaite, Of
it Services, Port Moresby, was seen off a friend, Miss Enid Lyons, when he limed from leave.
IR. P. L. JAMES, electrical engineer, Rabaul, came south by Qantas in ruary. He reported that his business about to be registered as a Limited npany. MR. J. STODDART, nerly a chief engineer with APC at t Moresby, returned there under agement to Works and Housing, as 't engineer at Port Moresby power se.
HE REV. FR. J. BLAES, SVD, after years in New Guinea, including the years, returned to Aitape again after rip around the world, which included •e-union with relatives in the Saar, a visit to Rome. Fr. Blaes returned an Italian ship which took 50 days re?ch Australia. CAPTAIN D. D.
ER, of the Queensland and Torres lit Pilot Service, flew to Port Moresby pilot the Norwegian ship Lijford to rsday Island.
R. S. E. BARNES, electrical shop fore i for Bulolo power-station, returned another term, following leave in ney. MR. J. SEDLACK was tid for Lae to join the building staff ohn Stubbs & Co. He is from Czecho akia, and has spent three years lentering in Australia.
Irs. W. Baxter, of Fiji, was a
tor to Queensland in February.
latron Maye, MBE. of Lae Hos tl, New Guinea, has been trans •ed to Port Moresby for relief ies. Her place in Lae has been
en by Matron I. Dobbyns. of
deng, NG.
The French liner Changchow carried interesting trans-Pacific passengers last month. South-bound, she had aboard one of England’s most prolific detective-story writers, Mr.
Michael Hervey, on a honeymoonholiday to Australia. En route he wrote a 65,000-word thriller “All in Good Crime”—“just to fill in time”.
North-bound from Sydney, the pas senger list included Sydney night club proprietor Abe Saffron, with his wife and child, bound for Tahiti A court case involving Mr. Saffron is listed for hearing in Sydney on March 25. The charge—failing to lodge a balance sheet relating to a Bondi “housie” game.