Scholarship Winner
pp. 31-32 · Read in the full issue
In Sydney in May, from his coun try home in Mapleton, Queensland, was Mr. F. J. Mackenzie, who was Commonwealth Bank manager in Rabaul when the Japs invaded in 1942. With A. J. Gaskin and a couple of others, he escaped captivity and the Montevideo Mam holocaust by walking rapidly away along the
South Coast, where they were picked up by seaplanes. War over, “Mac” went back to the Territories for a few years, as finance member of PCB, and he retired in 1950. He is an outspoken admirer of the quali ties of Assistant Administrator D. M.
Cleland, with whom he was closely associated in PCB.
Eileen Theresa Gordon, younger laughter of Mrs. D. M. Gordon, of Bris [?]ne, and the late Mr. L. Gordon, of [?]kon Plantation, New Ireland, who is [?]e 1952 holder of the NG Memorial [?]holarship. She was born in Kavieng, attends All Hallows Convent, Brisbane.
Constable Joni Atobe, whose photo appeared in the November, 1951, PIM, has been awarded a bronze medal and certificate by the Royal Life-Saving Society, London, for his heroic rescue of an Indian child who had fallen from the Sigatoka Bridge, Fiji-
Mr. Terry Wiliams, former gradu ate of the Fiji Central Medical School and a well known AMP in the Cook Islands, where he was well liked, is now a member of the Auck land Watersiders Union, earning— as he points out—rather more than he ever earned as an AMP.