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Pacific Islands Monthly, 23 April 1936Vol. VI, No. 9

Victims of Blackwater

p. 26 · Read in the full issue

Blackwater fever claimed two victims at Edie Creek, New Guinea, at the end of March —Mr. George Kirchner and Mr. J.

Perrier, well known men, both died in the same week-end.

Rev. Father J. Berlin, of Tours, France, arrived in Sydney by the Orsova on March 25, to make an inspection of t'he Marist missions in the South Seas.

Mr. W. M. Reid, well-known Islands agent of Sydney, sailed for Papua and New Guinea by the Montoro on March 19. On a periodical business trip to the Territories, he will leave the Montoro at Rabaul, and return to Australia through the Solomon Islands by the Malaita.