Hon. George Aumuller, M.L.C.

Prom Our Own Correspondent

Pt. Moresby, Oct. 6.

r:E vacancy on the Legislative Coun cil of Papua, caused by the death of Mr. “Gus” Nelsson, has been filled by the appointment of Mr. George E.

Aumuller, as from September 21.

Hon. George Aumuller has resided in the Territory of Papua for the past 30 years—and during that whole period he has been in the service of Burns. Philp and Co. Ltd. He is best known as the manager of the ‘ Company’s branch at Samarai. At present, he is in Port Mores by, acting as manager there during the absence of Mr, G. J. A. Moore, on leave in Australia.

The appointment of Mr. Aumuller has given general pleasure and satisfaction in Papua. There is no couple in Papua

held in higher regard than Mr. and Mrs. Aumuller; and the natural kind ness and courtesy of Mr. Aumuller, com bined with his shrewd judgment and long experience of Territory conditions, fit him admirably to be a member of the Council.

The Anglican New Guinea Mission’s recently-built Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, at Dogura, Eastern Papua, will be consecrated on October 29. It contains a memorial window for Rev. Samuel Tomlinson, one of the pioneers of the Mission, who is buried in the cathedral. A window of St. George forms the memorial of Rev. G. E. Down ton, for some years a missionary in Papua, and later secretary of the Aus tralian Board of Missions in Victoria. A hand-made sanctuary lamp, of copper,

has been placed in the cathedral in mem ory of Miss Nellie Hullett, who went to the Mission from Adelaide and was there 17 years. A coloured window of St. Laur ence, made in Melbourne, will be placed in the cathedral as the gift of the Heralds of the King, the children’s or ganisation of the A.B.M. in Australia.

Rev. Clifford L. Welch, of the London Missionary Society. Nauru, Central Paci fic, arrived in Melbourne recently.