G. H. Massy-Baker Dead
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In Papua
From Our Own Correspondent
Pt. Moresby, Jan. 6.
AN old Papuan identity, in the person of Mr. G. H. Massy-Baker, died at his home at Kerema on December 18.
Mr. Massy-Baker, who was born in 1868 in England, had served in the Brit ish Army in India, and retired with the rank of Captain before coming to Papua in December, 1908.
In that year, he joined the Govern ment Service as a surveyor’s assistant, and was made an Assistant Resident Magistrate in 1911, and Resident Magis trate in 1912.
In 1911, he led one of the expeditions in search of the Hon. M. S. C. Smith, who had left Kikori with the intention of travelling overland to the Strickland River. Mr. Baker ascended the Strick land on that occasion, beyond the fur thest point reached by the famous Ever ill expedition.
In 1913, he did a great deal of patrol ling on the Fly and Bamu Rivers, and on one of his journeys discovered Lake Murray, which has its outlet into the Strickland, from the north.
Mr. Baker retired from the Govern ment Service in 1919, and settled near Kerema, where he had been stationed as Resident Magistrate of the Gulf Division for the last five years.
Mr. A. Armstrong, an engineer with W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd., Rabaul, New Guinea, arrived in Sydney by the December “Bulolo”. After a short holi day, he will return to the Mandated Territory.