“Dreadful People”
p. 77 · Read in the full issue
A PORT MORESBY correspondent is caustic.
“The Australian coastal liner Katoomba, which has extended her North Queensland pleasure cruise to Port Moresby, came in early in July with 400 or more tourists — some of them most dreadful people, about whom the less said the better. We enter tained two of them —and we haven’t re covered yet.
“If this Papuan town is going to be sub jected to this sort of thing I think some official notice should be taken of it. It is bad enough for us Europeans, but the really serious aspect is the effect upon the natives of these irresponsible people from down-under.”