Special Service For Native
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Servants.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Pt. Moresby, Jan. 10.
ANEW feature of the Port Moresby Post Office which was established in December is a separate office for the sale of stamps and postal notes to na tives. The office is in charge of a Papuan.
It has been created for the benefit of native messengers, who formerly, owing to the delay while European customers were being served, had to wait sometimes for hours at a time. These messengers now receive immediate attention, in their own department. The innovation has prov ed a boon to business houses and house holders.
Mrs. Helen McCoy, of Norfolk Island, reached Sydney on her first visit to Aus tralia by the Morinda on January 12. .A son—Robert Gordon —was bom at Charlepiount Hospital, Point Piper, Syd ney, to Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Edgell, of Pak Plantations, Manus, New Guinea, on December 27.