Popular Appointment

Captain the Hon. Harold Taylour,

M.L.C.

From Our Own Correspondent 0 . WAU, April 2.

NCE again the Goldfields are repre sented on the Territory of New Guinea Legislative Council. Out of the several recommendations put for ward, Captain Harold Taylour has re ceived the appointment.

The choice is a particularly happy one, and receives the approval of prac tically the whole community.

The new Legislative Councillor has been in the forefront of all progressive public movements on the Goldfields, and is an indefatigable worker in anything that he undertakes. At one time Warden of the Morobe Goldfields (from which position he resigned some five years ago) Captain Taylour is well versed in all phases of mining and the require ments of the industry; he is a member of the Mining and Metallurgy Society; he has the gift of speech; and one of his crowning virtues is, perhaps, that he is entirely free from bias. On the departure of Captain H. T. Allan for Australia, after the commencement of the war, Captain H. Taylour became president of the New Guinea Mining Association, of which he was a vice president. His promotion to the rank of captain in the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles was promulgated a fortnight ago.

Mr. G. R. Richardson, base officer at Wewak, Northern New Guinea, for the Australasian Petroleum Company, re turned to A.P.C.’s headquarters in Port Moresby, Papua, in March.