"King Of Tabar"
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THE many friends of an old identity 1 of New Guinea, Charlie Petterson, known as the “King of Tabar,” will learn with pleasure that he is gaining in health at Wahroonga Sanitarium,
N.S.W.
A very sick man, he left Rabaul last February by the Van Rees. At New Caledonia he had to be taken ashore for treatment at the hospital; but not liking his surroundings in the French Colony, he left at the earliest opportunity by the Pierre Loti for Sydney.
In Noumea, he was fortunate enough to meet an Australian nurse, who ac companied him to Sydney. She advised him to seek treatment at the Wahroonga Sanitarium, and he has progressed so favourably that he expects to return to Tabar at the end of April, One of the old pioneers, Petterson ar rived in New Guinea from Sweden in 1900. He opened up several plantations for the big New Guinea Co., and for a while was running one of their vessels.
In 1912 he acquired a plantation of his own at Tatau Island, Tabar Group.