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Pacific Islands Monthly, 22 July 1938Vol. VIII, No. 12

Returning To The Islands

p. 68 · Read in the full issue

Top row: Mr. and Mrs. Launcelot Owen sailed from Sydney for Port Moresby, Papua, by the June “Montoro”. Mr. Owen, a well-known British geologist, is connected with Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum Ltd., and is in charge of a geological party which is photographing the Company’s area in the Gulf Division from the aeroplane shipped to the Territory on the same vessel.

Bottom row: Mrs. W. H. Parer and her twins, Carolin and Robert, with her husband’s cousin, Mr. A. F. Parer, prior to sailing for Salamaua, New Guinea, by the “Neptuna” on July 2. She spent several months’ holiday in Queensland and Victoria.