New Hotel At Wewak, N.G.

CONSIDERABLE progress and develop

ment in the town and district of Wewak is reported in the “Rabaul Times”.

The newly-made road into the interior is described as a credit to District Of ficer Townsend and Surveyor Miller. A good deal of attention has been given to the laying-out of gardens and the beauti fication of the township generally.

It is reported that arrangements are now well under way for the erection of a new hotel in Wewak by Mr. J. C. William son. Mr. K. Atkinson has been installed as manager, and it is hoped that the building will be completed in January next.

Mr. Julius Kruttschnitt, a director of N. G. G. Ltd., returned to Sydney on December 1, after a visit to the Morobe goldfield.

Miss Olive Foreman, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Foreman, of Suva, Fiji,' was married on November 14, in Holy Trinity Pro-Cathedral, to Lieuten ant Henri de Tourettes, of Lower Hutt, Wellington. The bridegroom is a Second Lieutenant in the Fiji Defence Force.

Miss Bureta Foreman was bridesmaid.

A guard of honour, with crossed swords, was formed outside the church, by Major Brewster and officers of the Ist Battal ion. Another guard of honour was form ed by the men of A Company, who gave the happy pair three rousing cheers.