Fiji Society Officers

The following officers were elected at the annual meeting of the Fiji Society in November; Patron, His Excellency the Governor; president, Mr. B. E. V. Parham; members of council, Mr. J. M. Hedstrom (immediate past president), Miss S.

Holmes, Messrs. J. N. Falvey, J. P. Angus, A. R. Browning, R. A. Derrick, H. Gatty, G. J. Larsen and J. N. Mason. tl Mr. G. Nevill, Resident Commis sioner, Cook Islands, accompanied by Mrs. Nevill, paid a visit to Tahiti and Makatea during No vember as guest of the Compagnie Francaise des Phosphates de I’Oceanie aboard their vessel Oiseau des lies, which made two visits to the Cooks exchanging labour gangs for the Makatea phosphate work ings.

IT Sir Walter and Lady Carpenter, Mr. R. B. Carpenter and Mrs. Long, daughter of Sir Walter and Lady Carpenter, arrived in Sydney by air from Vancouver in October.

IT Mr. V. Ambler, who has been manager for A. B. Donald & Co. at Atiu Island, for the past five years, will leave the Cook Islands and re turn to Europe.

If When Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Harwood and daughter, Miss C. M.

Harwood, returned to Fiji in November they had news of other exislands residents. Mr. Harwood had been attending the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture at Trinidad and had gained a post-graduate diploma during the year spent at the College. He reported that Mr.

J. C. Lamrock, of New Guinea, was also studying there, and that Mr.

W. J. Badcock, former Senior Agricultural Officer, BSIP, is now Reader in Agriculture there. Dr, J. S.

Cramer, formerly of Fiji, is now in private practice in Trinidad. The Harwood family spent three months in England also. fl The Rev. J. H. Hoadley, of the LMS Church, with his wife and family, returned to Western Samoa in November, after vacationing in England.

If A daughter was born on October 17 to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Whitta, who recently transferred to Niue Island from Rarotonga.

After a period of service at Rarotonga Radio, Mr. Dan Maher and his family (left) transferred to Wollington Radio in November.

Their places were taken at Rarotonga by Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Ashwell (right).

Mr. Ashwell has recently been on the staff of Musick Point Radio, Auckland.