Late Frank Pryke
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From Our Own Correspondent
Samarai, Nov. 1.
AHEAD-STONE marking the place where the ashes of the late Frank Pryke were interred has been erected beneath the flag pole on the hill above the Residency. In the form of a tablet bearing his name and the dates “1896- 1937”, it provides a tangible link to the memory of one of Papua’s finest pioneers, who died in August, 1937.
Mr. C. Price Conigrave, a former Gov ernment official in the Northern Terri tory, and also well-known in Papua, has been appointed general secretary of the Royal Australian Historical Society. Mr.
Conigrave is the author of two successful books on Northern Australia, and has been a member of expeditions both there and in New Guinea.