Tahiti Notes

A FORMER American L.S.T., which has been purchased by the French Government, arrived in Papeete on July 10. At a ceremony attended by the Governor (M. Petitbon) and leading citizens, it was re-christened Porionuu, by M. Jacquier. It will be used by the Public Works Department.

The luxuriously re-fitted Fairmile motor vessel Philante arrived in Papeete, in July, manned by her English owners (Messrs. Rusden and Baker).

On June 7, M. Moriez Antoine, an in mate of the Old Age Home, Papeete, was killed, whilst crossing a bridge near Papeete, when the motorcycle he was riding ran under the rear of a heavy vehicle. Five days later, Caporal Chef Minguy Yves Marie, of the Military Department, was also killed when the motorcycle he was riding struck the side of this same bridge.

The small Dutch steamer Zephyr called at Papeete on July 10, en route to New Zealand, to be handed over to new owners.

Dr. and Mrs. T. Braun of the

Lutheran Mission hospital, Madang,

arrived in Brisbane at the end of July after one year’s leave in their native America. Dr. Braun has spent 25 years in medical mission work in NG; Mrs. Braun, 27. During the war, with 152 other missionaries, Lutheran and Catholic, they were

taken prisoner by the Japanese and

were liberated at Hollandia in 1943

after horrifying experiences. The

couple attended the sick and dying

during their imprisonment. Dr.

Braun has spent half of his recent leave studying the latest treatment of Hansen’s Disease.

Dr. Olive Gill arrived in Sydney from England in mid-July en route to Papua where she will rejoin her husband, Archdeacon Romney Gill.

She will do medical work at the Anglican mission.

Chief Justice J. H. Vaughan, of Fiji, has now left the Colony, prior to retirement. Mr. Vaughan arrived in Suva as Attorney General in 1945, and became Chief Justice of Fiji in 1950.

Mr. and Mrs. Dyson Here Lacey were in Sydney in July on their way to their plantation in New Britain where they will spend the rest of the winter.

The engagement has been an nounced of Miss Elizabeth Mary Hutchinson of Melbourne to M Jean Brock of Noumea New Caledonia