February “Mariposa”.
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Awarded Coveted King's
Police Medal.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Rabaul, Feb. 5.
FOR having served over 20 years in the N.G. Native Constabulary, Sergeant-Major Naduba, of Kavieng, was awarded the coveted King’s Police Medal in the New Year’s Honours. Only 30 of these awards are made each year to police officers and men throughout the whole of the Empire.
This is the second decoration won by Naduba. When he was a corporal he received the New Guinea Police Valour Badge for conspicuous bravery in cap turing single-handed a convict murderer who was armed with a knife.
Mrs. Beatrix King, at one time of Apia, Samoa, who has been the guest of Dr. Peter and Mrs. Buck, at Honolulu, Hawaii, returned to Sydney by the
February “Mariposa”.