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Pacific Islands Monthly, 17 April 1944Vol. XIV, No. 9

Radio News In Motuan

p. 11 · Read in the full issue

A REGULAR feature of the new Papuan radio station, 9PA, in future will be a daily 15-minute news broadcast in Motuan. ANGAU officers

have installed wire less sets in all dis trict posts, where the natives will gather for the broadcasts.

Captain W. R. Hum phries, who at the time this photo graph was taken was Resident Magistrate at Port Moresby, and who is now an officer in

ANGAU, will make the broadcasts in the Motuan dialect.

Pour men from Fiji who were formerly prisoners of war in Italy are now reported to be in German prison camps. They are: Observer A. Mackay, RAAF, of Penang district; Sgt. R. Gemmell-Smith, RAF, also of Penang; Pilot-Officer J. Leitke, RAAF, Labasa; and Lieut. Cliff Warren, NZEF, formerly of Ba.