Large Party for Pitcairn

When the Rangitoto cleared Auck land for Panama November 29, the passenger list included 17 passengers for Pitcairn, largest group to travel to the island for many years.

The party included Pastor Norman A.

Ferris and Mrs. Ferris of the Seventh Day Adventist Church who will spend a year there, and Mr. and Mrs. G. Allen, lately of Pye’s Pa Road School, near Tauranga. NZ. off to relieve Mr. and Mrs.

Roy Sanders and their two children who will return to NZ per Rangitiki in January.

Mr. Allen will be in charge of the Government School there for the next year. The Sauders have been 18 months on Pitcairn.

Mr. Floyd McCoy returned with his wife after undergoing police and radio training in NZ.

Mr. Parkin Christian, Mrs. R. K.

Jacobsen and two sons, Mr. and itfrs. R.

Young and son Alric, Mr. and Mrs. V.

Christian and son Desmond, and Miss I.

Warren completed the party.

Desmond Christian returned home after seven years at Clyde Quay School, Wellington, and Alric, who is deaf, had been taught to lip-read.

Guest speaker at the Toowoomba

Rotary Club (Q.) on November 3,

was Colonel J. K. Murray, former

administrator of Papua and New

Guinea.