Islanders In
pp. 36-37 · Read in the full issue
Europe
From R. W. Robson
London, July 25.
PACIFIC Islanders are well repre sented in this, one of the largest assemblies of trave 1-hungry people Britain ever has seen. Here are a few 7 of the Islands folk with whom I already have exchanged greetings lately: Mr. and Mrs. J. Maynard Hed strom, of Fiji—briefly in London, and now gone a-wandering.
Mr. Jim Leahy, of Goroka, New Guinea Highlands. He and his very pretty young daughter Jon have been in Wales, and are now on the Italian Riveria.
Ted Glover, editor of South Pacific Post, and his attractive wife, Bunty, have been here for some months, and leave in August, with undis guised shouts of joy, for Sydney and Port Moresby. They insist firmly that they now 7 are Papuans, not English.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Ryall (Nelson and Robertson, Ltd., Sydney) are touring somewhere in Scandinavia.
They seemed to get away from the overcrowded hotels of this London district.
Mr. C. H. Carpenter, of Sydney, is looking over the London end of the Big Firm’s world organisation.
Len Usher, Fiji’s Public Relations
Officer, has combined his “long leave” with a special job for the Orient Company (which is so actively developing the trans-Pacific tourist traffic) and is spelling momentarily in London. He goes back to Sydney in one of the big Orient liners; and then he joins Mrs. Mollie Usher and the children in Auckland before they all return
to Suva about the end of the year.
Willie Watson well-known Cool Islands merchant, has been in anc out of London, on a busy tour. ] gather from one newspaper tha he snapped irritably at one urn informed reporter who could no pinpoint Rarotonga, in the Soutl Pacific.
Joan and Gordon Carter, who pu
Papuan Prints on the Port Moresby map in recent years, are here, after clocking up about 15,000 miles on a motor tour embracing various Asian and European countries. When their “Mighty Mouse” car gets back in November, it will be one of the most notable buses in Moresby streets, be cause along the front of its bonnet it carries the metal badges oi the following countries and clubs whose [tourist blessing it has had: Scot land. Switzerland, Belgium, fewiss-German Touring Club, Alsace, [Gross Lockner, Italy, Lichtenstein, [Swiss Auto Club, Bavarian Tour Club, Venice, Hongkong, Singapore, Denmark, Queensland RAC, German ABAC, France, Luxemburg, NRMA of NSW, Auto Club of Sweden, and the AAA of England.
I Colonel ‘Blue” Allan and Mrs.
Allan, of New Guinea and Sydney, having wandered around the East and the Mediterranean in a Wil helmsen cargo-carrier, are due in 'London any day now, and a Euro roean wander is planned. Every ship bound for the South pacific between now and the end of November seems to be booked out, and some of our friends, who [had hoped to escape southwards [before the year’s end, are full of [woe and worry.
I But London could not care less. [London is bedecked with every de fvice calculated to separate these [“rich colonials” from their lucre; and the price of. everything, from ‘simple clothes to complicated ser vice, literally sends the men from [“down under”—and more especially j*women from down under” —staggerling to their courteous banks, for [more and more money.