Memories of Time-Before
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at Maron
A note from Arthur Richards, of Rabaul: Your article on our old friend, Heinrich Rudolph Wahlen, was very
interesting.
He may be interested to know that his old plantation at Maron (Northwest Islands), now being run by Mr. C. Batt, is now producing about 156 tons annually of copra, and also considerable shell. Cattle, the progeny of his original herd, are running on these islands, and also many deer, which he intro duced.
At my home in Rabaul I have Mr. Wahlen’s original writing-table, and one of his square marble table tops. Out at our house in Toma I have his large round quila table— I wish it could talk!—and also his large quila bed, which has been reduced in size.
Upon which the irrepressible Mr.
Wahlen make comment : “Thanks —I am most interested. Yes, I think that big quila table could tell a few stories. But why the favouritism—why not ask that big quila bed to talk, too?” tDr. W. L. I. Verrier, Fiji Medical Statistician and director of the Fiji Yaws Campaign, has recently been granted a fellowship of the World Health Organisation. His field of study will be Medical Statistics and Epidemiology. He left Fiji at the end of February for the UK and on his return journey will visit Geneva and New Delhi.