Papuan Oldtimer
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Death of "Scottie" Currie, Papuan Oldtimer
From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, August 25.
ON August 17, at Port Moresby Hos pital, the death occurred of Mr. W.
Currie, a well-known resident of the Gulf Division, aged 70. “Scottie”
Currie, as he was known to his many friends, arrived in the Territory over 30 years ago, and took up trading in the Gulf area.
Mr. Currie had an eventful life. As a young man he served in the Navy on various foreign stations and later was a member of Shackleton’s expedition to the South Pole, when he sustained frost-bitten hands and feet, signs of which he bore all his life.
Mr. George Alexander Wishart died in Fiji recently, after a long illness. He was an inspector of produce in the Depart ment of Agriculture some years ago, and for a time was connected with the Dominion Fruit Company. Mr. Wishart was 59 years of age.