Manager of Solomons
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Trade Scheme
JOHN LOTZE of the Solomons is manager of the Government Trade Scheme after many years of commercial experience with the best-known firms in the Pacific.
He was born at Balmain, Sydney, and went to school at Fort Street and the Sydney Grammar School. In 1924 he went to Port Moresby with Burns Philp, returning to Sydney in 1927. He then joined Carpenter's, who sent him to Tulagi, former capital of the Solomons, and he was manager of their branch there from 1934 to 1942. He married Dorothy, daughter of "Pop" Johnson, Treasurer of the BSIP and previously of the New Hebrides.
During the Japanese war years John was in charge of the shipping department of Car penter's head office at Sydney. After the war he opened a branch for WRC at Hongkong, and then settled for a while at Adelaide, before joining the Trade Scheme in 1952.
He has now gone to England on long leave with his wife, and they hope to meet their daughter Ruth in London before returning to the Solomons. —BRETT HILDER.