SW Pacific Navigator

JACK CHARLES BARLEY is the cheer ful and courteous skipper of the Con dominium motor yacht DON QUIJOTE in the New Hebrides. He is also known by his Fijian name of Bainivalu, mean ing “Fence-of-War”, or perhaps “Stockade”.

He was born at Sigatoka, Fiji, in 1926.

His father was a member of the Colonial Service—now retired—and his mother was part Rarotongan. Jack was educated at St. Felix College, Suva, and at Auckland, and went to sea in 1946. From 1947 to 1953 he served in small ships of the Western Pacific High Commissioner in the Solomons. including the legendary KOVALA. In 1953 he was seconded to the Condominium to be skipper of DON

Quijote.

Jack was married in Sydney on November 9, 1954, and he and his bride are settling down at Vila, in a flat in the old building of the Joint Court. May they live happing ever after!-BRETT

Hilder.