Not So "Tough"?
pp. 53-54 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, March 2.
SOME blurbs from Southern papers recently, anent the “distressful” con ditions at Wewak, Northern New Guinea, were rather amusing to old-timers — “shortage of fresh food”, “serious sick ness”, etc.
I wonder what the New Guinea people did before the regularly-running steam ers, aeroplanes and what-you-will. Surely the pioneers of British stock are not weakening. Or is it that every little hardship, or discomfort must now be featured in some blathering Sunday newspaper?
Monsieur Feminand Paimbouc, of Bourail, died recently in New Caledonia.
iMrs. Mollie Pearce, of Salamaua, New Guinea, who travelled to Australia in Februarv, with her husband. Mr. Alf.
Pearce, one of the New Guinea recruits for the Second A.1.F.. is now living in Adelaide. Salamaua will miss this popu lar and clever pianiste who was respon sible for the formation of the Salamaua Orchestra, Mr. L. Stamper, of the New Guinea Education Department, arrived in Wau from Rabaul in February to take up the post of schoolmaster at Wau, in place of Mr. J. C. Doonar, who is a member of the N.G. quota of the A.I.P.
Rev. Fuaia Taito, a Rotuman, recently arrived in Australia from Fiji with his wife and three children, en route to Darwin to undertake work among the aborigines for the Methodist Mission.