Nostalgia

1 LOVED them, too, Those Islands in the sun.

Rings in my ear The beat of evening drum.

I still can see The placid blue lagoon Reflecting bright A rising tropic moon; And, from afar, If hear a guitar play With lilt of song To charm the ended day.

Across the breeze, The richly-scented air Brings memories Of Jasmine in her hair.

Taste comes to me Of tropic fruits divine; Whilst memory Recalls the happy time When, ’neath the pines, I lazed on coral sands, Sun-kissed, content With Nature’s bounteous land.

These things I loved; But, with the passing years, My feet have strayed, Renounced these loves, I fear— But not my thoughts.

I have the knowledge sure, That come what may, True beauty must endure; That works of man My picture cannot mar.

So not good-bye But to my Isles, Aloha.

Periti.

The Rev. Father J. F. Pothering ham, SM, first New Zealand priest of the Society of Mary to go to the Islands, celebrated his silver Jubilee of priesthood at the same time as the mission’s centenary celebrations at Aleipata (W. Samoa) last Nov ember. He has now been appointed Religious Superior of the Marist Fathers in Samoa and the Tokelau Islands. He has spent all of his 25 years as a priest in Samoa —11 of them in American Samoa.

Peter Kilner, son of Mr. and Mrs.

C. G. Kilner, formerly of New Guinea, was one of 11 NSW school-j boys selected to enter the Royal Aus-i tralian Naval College as cadet mid-| shipmen at the end of January. Hei was born in Rabaul in February,: 1939, came South with his mother prior to the Jap. invasion and has been attending Sydney Grammar School in recent years. Mr. and Mrs.

Kilner will be remembered in the Territory, where they have many friends and relatives—before the war he was with the Shell Co., then as.

OC Rabaul Detachment of the NG Volunteer Rifles he was taken prisoner by the Japs, after the in-j vasion. In 1949-50, he was business! superintendent of Bulolo Gold Dredg ing Ltd., and now is living at Pens-] hurst, Sydney, where he is secretary! of the New Brighton Golf Club.