"Exaggerated"

EARLY in January, the report was current in Sydney that the death had occurred of Mr. C. L. B. Wilde, who established the pioneer coffee plan tation in the Bulolo Valley, near Wau, New Guinea, in 1931. There many expressions of regret—for Mr. Wilde is a man held in high esteem. An old friend who heard the “news,” and went out to a Sydney suburb to tender sympathy to his relations, got the shock of his life when CLB came in person to greet him.

Mr. Wilde, although approaching the three-score-and-ten mark, is tough and fit and well, and hopes to be in the van guard of the returning NG planters.