160 Refugees from Eruption
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In A New Home
AFTER the recent volcanic eruption, the island of Lopevi in the New Hebrides, is no longer fit for human habitation. .. .
The people of Paama have accordingly offered the 160 evacuated natives an ex tensive piece of land, for settlement, on the east coast of Paama, and the refugees have gladly accepted the offer.
Mr. Frank James Tracy, who had been in New Guinea since 1920 —first with the radio service of the A.N. and M.E.F. and later with Amalgamated Wireless (A/sia.), Ltd., for 17 years, died in Madang Hospital on December 28, aged 42. He had served at every radio out station in the Territory and at A.W.A.’s headquarters in Rabaul.