“Sunshine’S” Successes.

“The old order changeth, giving place to the new.”

Wally Cordon, of Wau, T.N.G., whose ponies, horses and mules have carried much cargo and many passengers to Edie Creek from Wau, has not been so cheer ful lately, owing to the fact that three motor lorries now travel the historic track to the famous goldfields. Mr. Cor don tops the list of transport pioneers oi New Guinea; his has been no light task.

Since Boxing Day Mr. Cordon’s cheer ful grin has returned. The secret? “Sun shine,” one of his horses, won three out of the six cups at the initial meeting of the Morobe Turf Club at Wau.

His hand has been wrung congratula torily so many times that it reminds one of a man in similar circumstances who remarked after it was all over that he felt like the Prince of Wales. “But,” he added naively, “not so good looking.”

LADY HEDSTROM, of Suva, who was formerly Miss Joyce Beauchamp, of Sydney, arrived in February in Melbourne with her husband, Sir Maynard Hed strom, after an interesting twelve months’ trip abroad. An outstanding impression of the trip, she says, was a motor tour through Sweden. Stockholm she found a delightful city and its people with a cos mopolitan outlook; England the most prosperous country she had visited, Lon

don gay and engaging; Paris dull and dead, with its famous hotels such as the Ritz and the Mirabeau almost empty.

Lady Hedstrom is looking forward to re turning home to Fiji, which she describes as the housewife’s paradise with no ser vants problems and a good cook always available. Before returning to Suva, Lady Hedstrom spent a few days in Sydney seeing old friends.