Mr. A. J. Butler

T'HE subject of this photograph is known wherever prospectors gather in the goldfields end of New Guinea. Mr.

Al. Jacob Butler (known popularly as “But”—pronounced “Boot”) describes himself modestly as “miner”; but he is fully entitled to be described as an ex plorer and an authority on native life and customs.

Mr. Butler has lived many years in the Territory, and taken part in some stirring adventures. On one occasion he

was attacked by bush natives in the wilds of Kaipit. He defended himself des perately, with his back to a tree, and with spears embedded all around him in the wood. He was eventually saved by the devotion of a native woman, whose child he had treated for hookworm.

On another occasion, “But” had a hair raising experience, while returning to his home on Mt. Kaindi, Edie Creek, at sun down. He was pursued by an enormous python, of which there are very many in that region at certain times of the year.

Until recently, “But” was an en thusiastic amateur jockey. He has lived a life packed with adventures but, like all true pioneers, he is very diffident about relating his experiences.

“Old Timer.”

Mr. L. J. Davis has been appointed a director of Mandated Alluvials, N.L., which is now actively interested in the Astrolabe copper field in Papua.

Mr. W. Gordon, who has had 36 years’ experience in tea planting in Assam, India, arrived in Sydney by the Nankin on July 22. He is interested in stimu lating the tea planting industry in New Guinea and Australia.

Canon S. W. Williamson, rector of Tocumwal Anglican Church in the Aus tralian diocese of Rivprina, left Melbourne at the end of July for Nauru and Ocean Island. Each year the Australian Board of Missions sends a clergyman to those islands to hold services for the white residents and to give the children a course of Sunday school teaching over a period of three months.

Mr. A. J. Butler.