Suggestion of Persecution
p. 12 · Read in the full issue
of Morobe Hotelkeepers
From Our Own Correspondent.
WAU, October 1.
FOR the second time in three months the hotels at Wau have been raided by the local police. The popular Mrs.
Stewart was again fined £2O.
Residents here are annoyed at this state of affairs as, after the men knock off at the mines, they all foregather at the two hotels for “kai” and billiards, and where else can they get their entertain ment? Most of them live in shacks, and the hotels both here and at Edie Creek are the meeting places of all at night, especially as they are among the few who have wireless sets, and cut off as we are without papers, etc., and the world’s news, everyone looks on Mrs. Stewart’s hotel as a social home.
Thirty residents were “caught” and each fined £2 the next day by the D.O.
It was funny to see some of the “coves” bolting over the verandah into the bush when the uproar started. At any rate, they got away, and were not in the line-up next morning.