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Correspondents
VARIOUS INQUIRERS.—The address of Mr. L. J. Stokie, who recently escaped from New Britain, is at present 41 Osborne Road, Lane Cove, Sydney. (Telephone: JB 18180 The address of the sister of the late Gordon Robertson, of New Guinea, is Miss Robertson, 29 Drummoyne Avenue, Drummoyne, Sydney.
VARIOUS INQUIRERS.—The article about the efficacy of sulphanilamide in the treatment of stomach ulcers (one of the curses of the tropics), published on page 19 of the April “PIM,” was supplied by Mr. R. Scholtz, of Raiatea, via Tahiti, French Oceania. We have written Mr.
Scholtz, and asked him to give us, for publication, further particulars of the treatment.
MRS. D.W. (Dungog).—Your letter has been sent on to our friend in USA, and he can reply to you direct about “Stewarts Handbook, 1922." The latter was listed, in 1938, at £3 3/ —it may be worth more now.
R.C. (South Aust.).—The subscription will not expire until the issue of August, 1944—16 months to go.
W.T.H. —You may obtain a copy of “Tahiti, Terre Francais Combattante,” by Dr. de Curton, from Free French Move ment. 72 Pitt Street, Sydney: price 2 6.
The "Pacific Islands Year Book, 1942” (12/6) and “Tahiti and French Oceania” (6 -) may be bought from Pacific Publi cations Pty., Ltd., Box 3408 R, GPO.
Sydney.
INQUIRER. —The price of copra, in store, Rabaul, in the latter part of 1940, was: Hot-air-dried, Aug. 27. £4/12'6; Oct. 21, £4/7/6; Nov. 14. £4/10/-; May, 1941. £5/10/-.
A.C.R. —Sorry about the use of “Yan kee” —but that’s how it is—one of the horrors of the war. During the past 18 months, the term has come into general use (quite inaccurately) as an alterna tive to “Americans.” Good Americans are as annoyed about it as are good Scot tish. when they are called Englishmen.
Any information about Robert Melton Rogers, who disappeared when the Japs occupied Rabaul. would be gratefully re ceived by his wife, Mrs. Laura Rogers, 79 Canterbury Street, Casino, New South Wales. An unconfirmed report, through native channels, received by Mrs. Rogers, says that he was shot and killed while riding a bicycle near Rabaul.