BSIP Red Cross Richer

by £215

THE Solomon Islands Branch of the British Red Cross Society held a very successful fete in oniara on December 5.

Stallholders were Mrs. J. P. W. jgie (Sewing), Mrs. O. G. Chap an (Old Clothes), Mrs. R. A. very (Cakes), Miss Stanley (Pro uce), Mrs. T. H. Manning lowers), and Mrs. R. J. Minnitt Afternoon Tea).

Sideshows were energetically run r Mrs. Goodman, Mr. E. V. Lawson, j j. B. Twomey, Mr. I. V. G. ackay, Mr. W. G. Elliot and the aff of the Commonwealth Bank, jorts events were conducted by Dr.

F. Payne.

Much hard work by all concerned suited in an excellent display of alls and considerable enthusiasm rev both stalls and sideshows. The te was well attended by Europeans, hinese and natives and made a ital net profit of £215.

A pig, presented by Mr. G. H. [uper, realised £l4.

Various articles were raffled dur ig the afternoon. Probably the lost excited member of the large ■owd was a Western native who won jr a one-shilling ticket in a raffle, D orange silk shawl heavily em roidered in magenta, purple, saf :on and shocking pink.

U Rev. Norman Cruttwell returned to the Menapi Anglican Mission, NE Papua, in December, after seven months’ leave in England. He was accompanied by his mother. Mr.

Cruttwell has been in Papua since 1946, and—apart from mission ac tivities—has become * a noted botanist.

II Mr. and MMs. Otto Sundin who, 18 months ago, retired to Welling ton, NZ, after many years in Tonga, are journeying to Sweden, Mr.

Sundin’s native land, in April. They will stay there with a son who left Tonga in about 1932 and has since made a name for himself as an engineer in Sweden.