New Patrol Officer
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From Our Own Correspondent.
Pt. Moresby, Feb. 2.
Patrol Officers of the Magisterial Department in the Public Service of Papua have a new member, in Mr. Michael J. Healy, who left recently for the Gulf Division, for the Police Camp on the Tiveri Goldfields, to relive Patrol Officer Speedie. He will be under Capt. Zimmer, R.M., at the Government station, Kerema, further west.
From the Police Camp Mr. Heay's duties will be to visit the mining camps of the fields and patrol the villages of the neighbouring tribe. The natives of the Tiveri and Tauri have been troublesome in the past to the miners, and the Patrol Officer, with his police force, is there to keep the district in order.
Mr. Healy has already been 6½ years in the Government Service. He was educated at Mudgee College, Brisbane, and is the son of the late Michael Healy, who, at the time of his death in 1928, was head gaoler in Port Moresby and had seen 12 years’ service under the Papuan Government.