"Old Hands" Get Together in
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Samarai
From Our Own Correspondent
Sam Arm, July 7.
MEMORY opened the door a little wider one day during the week-end, for a few hours; the atmosphere throbbed to the tempo of other days, when a group of “old hands” met to gether for the first time in 30 years.
They were Messrs. E. C. Skelly, J. G.
Munt, H. Spiller, L. Henderson, F. Blen cowe and R. Fletcher, who hold between them 180 years of Papuan experience and who arrived in this territory between 1907 and 1911, at the time of the first big wave of investment and commercial development that helped to place Papua on the map. To mark this reunion, they made a celebration of the occasion, the meeting serving also as a quiet farewell to Mr. Blencowe, who left for New Guinea the following morning.