Rawhitts New Status

THE former tank-landing-ship Rawhiti which operated from New Zealand to the Islands and Aus tralia for several years after the war, and which was sold to the Peruvian Navy late last year, was re named Chimbote —after the Peruv ian port of that name, 200 miles north of Callao.

Chimbote now is classed as a gun boat, and makes the long voyage from Callao through the Panama canal and 2,000 miles up the Amazon to Peruvian settlements on the head waters of that great river.

Mr. and Mrs. J. S. K. B. Borron, of the Lau Islands, Fiji, have spent recent weeks in Melbourne, after a visit to United States and Europe.

In Scotland, Mr. Borron underwent a severe operation to counter an old trouble in his legs; and this, com bined with further treatment from Melbourne specialists, has improved his condition a good deal. They hope to return to Fiji in September; but it may be that he will be obliged, in future, to live in a colder climate, in which event his sons will take over the Mago coconut plantations in Lau. The Borrons are members of an old Fiji familv, famous for its hospitality.

Paul James Aingimea, a Nauruan, has been chosen to train at the Queensland Congregational Theological College, Brisbane and will

later become a teacher in Papua Until recently he has been a time keeper for the Phosphate Commis sion on Nauru.