P.O. Service At Wau
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From Our Own Correspondent
Wau, N.G., Jan. 4.
“QERVICE” is becoming the watchword KJ of the Wau Post Office!
Special arrangements were made this year for the delivery of mails and par cels so that addressees could collect be fore Christmas. The “Macdhui” did not arrive at Salamaua until late on De cember 23, which meant that mails could not be received in Wau until Christmas Eve—a declared public holiday. It looked bad to local residents, but the local Postmaster. Mr. Andy Ker, did the de cent thing.
Cargo from the “Macdhui” waited while two Guinea Airways Ford planes rushed the mail from Salamaua to Wau, and the Post Office was open until 5 p.m. Consequently, Father Christmas had many more good things to distri bute than otherwise would have been the case.
Rev. C. V. Longden, who has been en gaged in mission work for the Melan esian Mission on the south coast of New Britain, T.N.G., has resigned because of ill health. He left for England by the “Rabaul” on December 20.
Nursing Sister A. E. Samuels has re signed from the Melanesian Mission as the result of ill health, and has return ed to her home in New Zealand. She had been stationed at Torgil in the New Hebrides.
Basil Leodoro, a native of Raga, New Hebrides, has been selected by the Bishop of Melanesia to proceed to Fiii. where he will enter the Suva Medical School, eventually qualifying as a Native Medi cal Practitioner.