Ocean Tourists In Papua.
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Port Moresby, Sept. 3.
ON Saturday, September 2 and Sun day, September 3, 1200 passengers from the liner “Strathaird,” up here on an “ocean cruise,” thronged the little town of Port Moresby and the native villages. For a day-and-a-half the place was like a European metropolis.
Native dances, canoe races, motor trips, eac., provided ample diversion for the visitors. Four aeroplanes came over from Wau, and 200 passengers took flights over the adjoining country.
Port Moresby residents generally were hospitably entertained on the liner. The Administrator (Sir Hubert Murray) and leading officials dined aboard with Cap tain Townsend, commander of the “Strathaird.”