"Returned For Treatment"
p. 31 · Read in the full issue
CAPTAIN Alan de Groen, now in the service of ANGAU, was returning to his unit in New Guinea when he was intercepted by a zealous official in a northern port. Had he been vaccinated?
The captain said he had not.
“Then,” said the official, “you cannot enter Papua. Regulations!”
“But,” howled the amazed de Groen, “I’ve lived in Papua for twenty years, and I managed all right without vacci nation.”
“Sorry,” said the official. “Regulations, you know.”
The captain was at explosion point, when he learned that the same interpre tation of regulations provided that he should be returned to Sydney, to undergo treatment. Practically an extension of furlough—much better!
He ceased howling, and returned grate fully to Sydney, “for treatment.”
This was one of the occasions when the red of the absurd official tape assumed a very pretty colour in the eyes of its complacent victim.
Two of the oldest families in Fiji were united when Miss Nora Aull, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Aull, married Mr.
Clark Blakelock, in the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Suva, on October 31.