Beatrice Grimshaw

Commenting on the death (at 82) of South Pacific novelist, Miss Beatrice Grimshaw, Mr. Sydney H.

Chance writes: In my early Papuan days, “Beattie” lived with her brother Osborne and his wife in Moresby.

It was a practice of hers to enter tain Patrol Officers on their occasional visits to Moresby from the wilds, and thus she gathered much material for her books and stories. She came to Papua for some English newspaper about 1910, when the ss Bentinck arrived with the initial staff of the British New Guinea Development Co.

H Mr. George Clark, Burns Philp manager in Rabaul, has been elected President of the Rabaul Chamber of Commerce. The former president, Mr. Norman Lee. has gone South on sick leave. Mr. H.

Hodson (of Coconut Products Ltd.) becomes vice-president.