61 Natives Fined
p. 64 · Read in the full issue
THE volcanologists, last year, urgently recommended the removal of the Rapindik native hospital, on the out skirts of Rabaul, on the ground that it is very dangerously situated near to Matupi volcano. The administration, accordingly, surveyed a section of native land, in the Ratavul district, as a preliminary to plac ing the hospital there. The natives, how ever, pulled up the survey pegs, and the work could not continue.
On September 26, in Rabaul, 61 natives were charged with having removed the pegs. All pleaded guilty and were con victed.
Mr. Norman Davies has taken over the management of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Samarai, Papua.