Papua's Enlistments
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Pt. Moresby, Dec. 20.
UP to the end of November, 23 officers of the Papuan Civil Service had enlisted —a fair average out of 144, when it is remembered that some 30 members are over military age, and that many have been refused permission to enlist owing to shortage in the different staffs.
Miss L. I. Lawrence, of the Methodist Mission’s Home for Indian Children at Dilkusha, Fiji, arrived in Sydney re cently from Suva and proceeded to Vic toria on furlough.
Mr. Rennick, who has been on the staff of the Commonwealth Copra Company at Giligili, near Samarai. Papua, for some time, has been transferred to the Solo mon Islands.