Methodist mission in BSIP

ipporters in Australia and New id are this year celebrating the inniversary of the arrival in New ia of two pioneer Methodist naries—the Rev. John Goldie ie Rev. Ray Rooney, in 1902. se courageous men, at a time the Solomons were in their al primitive state, were sent out Methodist Church in Australia. years ago the Methodist h in New Zealand took over le responsibility of this mission t of the western Solomons and inville, and since then there ;en a steady stream of teachers ledical workers from NZ. Mr. : continued there for 50 years, his retirement in 1952.

ie Gay were the names chosen r. and Mrs. John Kaputin, of Moresby, for their first-born, kaputin is a Tolai and his wife West Australian schoolteacher named him in Port Moresby Jar. The baby takes the name iputin’s mother and has thick curls and fair skin. “We’ve forgiven her for not being a said the attractive Mrs. Kaputin her baby was born in Port by in April. * * * and Mrs. N. H. Foxcroft, who :ars have been doing a monu -1 job of work for ex-Pacific s people living in Sydney, sailed r Europe in April on a long y. Mr. Foxcroft is president of acific Islands Society and Mrs.

Dft of the New Guinea Women’s Appropriate gifts were made

businessman John K. Dowling created resting diversion for passers-by when e the entire length of Rabaul's Mango Avenue on this midget tractor.

;m by both organisations before were sent off with the best s of a host of friends. Both the and society will carry on under vice-presidents while the Fox are away. At the April meet l the Pacific Islands Society, Mr.

Lane, executive secretary of the Visitors Bureau, was the guest sr. * * ♦ ade unionism in P-NG—formerly »f the unmentionable subjects— »een given a shot in the arm the P-NG Legislative Council irch passed legislation allowing registration. In April, secretary : P-NG Workers’ Union, Sinaka i, announced that people would be able to see concrete examples ionism—his union would issue tickets and badges. The badge have a blue background (for acific), two brown men shaking , a white cross (for Christianity) map of P-NG.

:k Richmond, a 21-year-old can student of the University awaii, announced in Apia in that he plans to sail a 41 ft ssian double canoe from Hawaii st Samoa. The canoe is already st Samoa, where he has built it :he last seven months, and he to ship it to Hawaii. He said i first planned to sail the canoe awaii until he realised winds make the job “almost im le”. He reproduced the design studying old-time Polynesian > in museums. He thinks it’s the ype used by Polynesian voyagers years ago. Said Mark: “I it by doing this I might arouse of the old enthusiasm that is lost in some sectors of Poly

Sydney for the first time in April jian Joe S. George, a clerk with the [?]Pacific Insurance Company in Suva, [?]nd it cold in the mornings, he said, found a temporary warm spot at the d of one of "Pacific Islands Monthly's" s when he called in to see how "PIM" was produced.

n life. At the time these canoes used people had guts. Now -5 there are still a few people wrth but we are losing this virtue.”

\nzac Day—April 25—was kept i Noumea as usual this year, the commanders of the French ;s in the Pacific taking part in /reath laying ceremonies for the But there was one difference, grumbling among themselves Australian residents sent the ving dispatch to PIM “Aus n residents are thinking seri of taking up a collection to buy iple of Australian flags for the verished Australian consulate to iy at future Anzac Day cere es. The Australian flag is always licuous by its absence,”

ien New Zealand Minister for d Affairs, Mr. F. L. A. Gotz, re d home in April after his first to the Cook Islands as Minister id something to say about his trip, the South Pacific generally, to ;eting of the Tin Hat Club of Christchurch Returned Services’

Nation. He said when he asked Cook Islands youth what he sd the Government to do for sland, the youth had answered, Gotz, leave us alone. We ain’t no ulcers.” Mr. Gotz added; 3ng these people there have been w evil ones. We know them. live there. They spread the ine of the evil Western civilisa-

d recently in the Rabaul Memorial popular Sister Helen Hopkins and Mr.

Dyer. They will live in Kavieng.

d at the United Church, Boroko, Port [?]y, in April—Miss J. Steele and Mr.

B. Folett.—Papuan Prints.

Some evil influences in the 5 are spreading subversive litera md an evil doctrine. And they orking there right in our midst, re impelled by one pernicious ne of world revolution and the lation of the world by the nunist philosophy.” * * * en Monseigneur Michael Bar er, in Noumea, on April 26, onsecrated Bishop of the Wallis ’utuna Islands, it was the fourth a Bishop has been consecrated w Caledonia. People came from trners of the territory for the ony. “There certainly does not to be any slackening of religious here,” said a correspondent.

glican Bishop of New Guinea, ev. Phillip Strong, said in New , NSW, in April, that he was essed” by signs that Australia’s ' of self-determination for :rlands New Guinea was “weak- He said Australia’s support ently began to weaken when the 1 did not receive full support other countries. Her weakening undoubtedly encouraged Indo in the belief that it would not great opposition in its efforts ain possession of NNG. The p’s statement aroused a row in al Parliament (see Canberra nentary, p. 26) when it was sug- I, incorrectly, that the ABC removed a report of the state from one of its bulletins be of Government pressure. * * * isengers on the northbound o from Sydney in April had own Anzac Day service con d by the master, Captain Bill ng. The vessel was over the spot, iles east of Brisbane, where the

lo Rabaul refreshed after three months with her family in Sydney is Mrs. Jack el. Husband Jack learned of his pro to District Officer just before going on leave last January.

>ital ship Centaur was sunk ost 19 years ago. A Japanese sub ine torpedoed the vessel, which ied the usual Red Cross markings which sailed openly with lights ing. The Japs could have been in doubt what sort of a ship it was, 299 lives were lost on her, in ling those of many Australian ty nurses.

l Papuan summonsed before a t Moresby magistrate’s court for ing failed to pay water and 3age rates to the Hanuabada ive Local Council, indignantly ex ned that he should not have to water rates because he never hed. His domestic arrangements n’t sway the court. Fined 5/-. ♦ * Tie announcement by the Minister Terri tones, Mr. Hasluck, in April, t Mr. Justice R. T. Gore is retir from the P-NG Supreme Court ich came as no surprise in New inea. Mr. Justice Gore, who is in 74th year, has considered retiring some time. He has been in the ritory since 1924, when he became ma’s first Crown Law Officer, and » appointed a Judge in 1928. In a h tribute to his work, Mr. Hasluck i, “Probably no other Australian had such a long and distinguished jciation with our nation’s achieve in t or worked so wisely and iently for the people of the Terri y. He was tolerant and painstaking I tempered justice with understand-

led in Sydney recently at St. Jude's Ch, Randwick, were Mr. Donald Potts, of Moresby, and Miss Joyce Fisher, of ee, Sydney. The couple are now living ort Moresby. Mr. Potts has lived in Fiji and W. Samoa.