Another Distinguished
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Murray
A BOOK by Peter Pinney, 30-year old, war-decorated grandson of the late Sir Hubert Murray, has been chosen by the new Australasian Book Society as its first publication. It is a novel, and its background is the war in New Guinea.
There is a remarkable hereditary streak in this Murray family. Away back, there was a Sir Terence Mur ray, prominent in New South Wales.
One of his sons is the very distin guished Professor Sir Gilbert Murray —and he got his name from a close maternal relation—W. S. Gilbert, of Gilbert and Sullivan fame. Sir Gil bert Murray married a daughter of the Earl of Carlyle. Another dis tinguished son was the late Sir Hubert Murray, Lieut-Governor of Papua. Sir Hubert had a daughter, who married Captain C. R. Pinney, decorated in World War I and Ad ministrator of Norfolk Island, 1932- 37, Peter is their son, so he knows the Islands well. Mr. Leonard Mur ray, nephew of Sir Hubert, became Lieut.-Governor of Papua in 1941,
and retired during the war.-
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Miss Gwen Rutherford of Trea sury Dept. Rabaul, NG, left for Australia on leave in July.