On The Central Plateaus Of New Guinea.

THIS attractive, unposed group is in teresting for many reasons—for it shows the Governor-General of Aus tralia, Lord Gowrie, and Lady Gowrie, chatting to the women residents of Bulwa, New Guinea—but its chief value is in the glimpse it gives of life on the interior tablelands of New Guinea, almost under the Equator.

Here are no miserable victims of the malarial jungle—no washed-out women and scarecrow children. The women

and children shown in this photograph would be a credit to an,y temperate country in the world. The explanation, of course, is the altitude —conditions are cool and healthy on these great central plateaus of New Guinea. —(Photo by Simmons.)

Sir A. G. Murchison Fletcher, K.C.M.G., C.8.E., who was Governor of Fiji from 1929 until 1936, has resigned the Governorship of Trinidad and Tobago, owing to continued ill-health.