N. Guinea Co. Wants to Seek

For Oil

A LIVELY little squabble developed in Melbourne in connection with the annual election of directors to the NG company known as Enterprise of New Guinea Gold and Petroleum Devel opment NL.

A group of three were nominated to contest vacant seats, and they promised the shareholders rigid economy in ad ministration, reduction in expenditure on gold mining at Edie Creek pending a de cision to treat large tonnages of ore al ready blocked out in the Edie mine, and a more vigorous effort to secure a permit to search for oil in the uncontrolled area in New Guinea, for an application has been refused.

The retiring directorate replied, sharply, that everything possible had al ready been done in the directions indi cated.

The refusal of the Administrator to allow Enterprise parties to conduct a search for oil in the uncontrolled areas on the New Guinea mainland led to angry exchanges just before the war.

There are indications that when the war is over, and normal conditions re turn Fiji may become a popular winter holiday resort for Australian and New Zealand motorists. There are now many good roads in the main island of Viti Levu, including a motor run of about 200 miles, right round the big island.

In the Divorce Court in Rabaul, at the end of November, John McEvoy Poland applied for a dissolution of his marriage with Millie May Poland, on the grounds of her alleged adultery with Ray Swift.

The parties are well-known on the Morobe goldfields, where the applicant is engaged in mining, Mrs. Poland denied the allegations of misconduct, and de fended the suit, but there was no appear ance of the co-respondent.

Mr. Geoffrey Holmes, formerly of Kavieng, New Guinea, is now serving with the RAF in England.