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“Laperouse”
WHEN she reached Sydney on May 19. the French vsteamer Laperouse, from New Hebrides and New Caledonia, was held up for a time while Customs officers searched her for contraband.
After several hours’ examination, the searchers found more than 9,000 packets of Continental cigarette papers hidden in a cabin. Half of the haul was made in a recess in a wardrobe, and the remainder was found in a cupbcard with a false bottom beneath one of the bunks.
Heavy duty is charged in Australia on imported cigarette papers, and it was estimated that the amount of duty payable on the quantity seized would have been about £6O.
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Clarke, Methodist Missionaries in Eastern Papua, returned to Salamo with their young daughter by the Macdhui from Sydney on May 28.
They had been in Australia on account of the ill-health of Mrs. Clarke.
Judge F. B. Phillips, of the Central Court, Rabaul, arrived in Sydney from New Guinea by the Macdhui on May 21.
Mr. T. R. McCulloch, of Sydney, has resigned from the Board of Directors of New Guinea Hotels Limited.
M iss E. Lindsay, who is a nurse at the Methodist Mission’s Hospital at Ba, ar rived in Australia by the Niagara on May 16, after completing a term in Fiji. She will spend her furlough in New South Wales.