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NG Uncontrolled Territory Partly Opened

THE Director of the Dept, of Native Affairs in New Guinea (Mr, Melrose) in an advertisement in the “Rabaul Times” of January 2, announced that the NG Administration now is prepared to consider applications for permits to enter portion of the “uncontrolled” area on the mainland of New Guinea. The region de fined is “that portion of the Madang district, which commences at the boundary between the Madang and Morobe dis tricts, and extends westerly to the Bena Bena River”.

Persons desiring to enter here should lodge applications with the DO at Madang, and should state the purpose and period for which the permit is de sired; the names of the non-native personnel; the equipment proposed to be taken; and the number of indentured labourers to be included in the permit.

Rev. O. J. Brady, of the New Guinea Mission, who has been on leave in Tas mania, recently returned to Papua to take over the post of principal of St.

Aidan’s Training College at Divari from Rev. Arthur P, Jennings, Th.L.

Mrs. A. W. D. Mullins, wife of a well known aeroplane engineer, who was in charge of Guinea Airways engineering services in New Guinea for several years after the pioneer job was completed in 1927, and who took part in the initial flight from Rabaul to Lae, has inherited a Scottish title and will shortly become Lady Grace Campbell-Black. Mrs. Mullins, who met her husband when she was an army nurse in 1914-18, said that the title was quite unsought—it came to her owing to a number of unexpected deaths. Mr.

Mullins is now in charge of a munitions works in Australia.