For Britain
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Morobe Buys a "Spitfire"
RESIDENTS in the Morobe district of New Guinea recently sent £2,500 (sterling) to the High Commissioner for Australia in London (Mr. S. M. Bruce) to be presented to the British Govern ment as the first payment for the pur chase of a “Spitfire” fighting plane. They asked that the plane be named “Morobe”.
The balance of the money will go for ward within a few months.
The Morobe district, where 1,300 Euro peans and 80 Asiatics live, already has subscribed £9,000 for patriotic purposes.
Mr. Paul Zenker, a planter at Keravat, New Britain, died in Namanula Hospital, Rabaul, at the end of May. Before taking up planting in 1936, he was engaged in mining on the Morobe Goldfields.