Papua's "Uncontrolled

Area"

From Our Own Correspondent

Port Moresby, Jan. 24.

rE area in Central Papua, to the north of Lake Kutubu, which re cently was opened to the general public, after being closed as an “uncontrolled area’’ for over three years, has advanced very considerably in the way of pacifica tion.

Three of the five officers who had been stationed there for the last eighteen months are being withdrawn, and the Kutubu station will be in the charge of Mr. C. J. T. Adamson, assisted by Mr. J.

B. C. Bramell. The police force is being reduced from 28 to 20, and the force of signed-on carriers is being cut in half.

Mr. Ivan Champion is leaving Kutubu, and will be appointed to one of the coastal stations.

Captain C. O. Andersen, well known on the Papuan coast, recently received word that his eldest son, a member of the A.1.F., has been promoted to the rank of captain.

Mr. Harold Stanley Sell recently ar rived in Suva to take up the post of Inspector in the Fiji Police Department.

Mr. Alexander McPhee, son of Mr. R.

D. McPhee, of Navua, Fiji, recently joined the Second A.I.F. in Sydney.