Mr. E. V. Crisp Planning

Retirement

Mr. E. V. Crisp, the managing director of Steamships Trading Co.

Ltd. (which shares Burns Philp interests the major trade of the Australian Territory of Papua), proposes to retire from the active management of the Company in De cember, after 30 years’ service— although he probably will continue in harness for a little time there after as chairman of the Company..

Steamships Trading Co. Ltd. was established in Papua after World War I by Captain A. S. Fitch, who took the old steamer Queenscliff from Tasmania to Port Moresby on a speculative trading venture. From modest beginnings, the enterprise grew steadily into an organisation of some importance, and added to its strength by taking a prominent part in the establishment of the rubber growing industry in Papua.

Mr. Crisp, who had gone to Papua as the representative of Holder Bros., an English firm with interests in the Territory, joined Captain Fitch as manager of his new Samarai Branch on December 12, 1924; and he succeeded “Gappy” as Managing Director when the latter retired, after the rehabilitation of the Company following the Japanese invasion.

Mr. Crisp will be succeeded in the post of Managing Director by Mr.

J. M. Mitchell, who was for many years on the staff of Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd. as Commercial Manager, and who five years ago joined the staff of STC Ltd. and became General Manager.

U Mr. R. W. Robson returned to Sydney, November 8, after visiting Fiji and N. Caledonia.

Mr. Mitchell.