Well-Known Trader of BSI

MR. VAL MURPHY, Manager of the

Government Trade Scheme at Gizo, prin

[?]ipa! port of the Western Solomons, is an [?]id hand in the Islands trade. He was [?]orn in Sydney in 1906, went to Vila for [?]he Burns, Philp South Sea Co. in 1927

[?]nd transferred, in 1932, to Makambo,

[?]p's capital in the Solomons He was [?]arried in Sydney, in 1935, to Miss Jean [?]lomon. They went to live at Faisi in he Shortlands, where Val was Manager [?]f the BP branch from 1936 until the apanese war reached that area. He was [?]vacuated in the “Morinda”. on her last [?]oyage, leaving Gavutu in 1942 after being [?]om bed in Port Purvis earlier in the day.

Mr. Murphy then joined AIF as an [?]mphsbian, serving in New Guinea, Bou [?]amville, and Guadalcanal. He went on [?]e expedition to Mono Island in an LST, [?]ending 10 days there, near the musically

[?]mous village of Bali-ha’i. before going

[?ack to New Guinea and Australia. He [?] en joined the BSIP Defence Force. After je war he was working on War Damage laims at Rabaul. In 1948 he went to mgatu for Lever’s.

In 1952, he joined the Government [?]rade Schem e as its manager at Gizo.—

-Brett Hillder.