Wealthy Time-Finish
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A MELBOURNE “Herald” war corres pondent says that 1,500 New Guinea natives are returning to their homes, carrying what is to them a fortune.
Each native will receive up to £l5 each when they are paid off at Yule Island, north-west from Moresby.
Between them they also have about £2,000 from sales of souvenirs to Austra lian troops.
Natives have been serving for two and a half years as carriers and stretcher bearers on the Kokoda trail and as road builders on the famous Bulldog Road over the Owen Stanleys. The newly-rich
natives will get a “Hero’s” welcome in their villages.
ANGAU officers are wondering how trading stores near the villages will be able to cope with the demands for mer chandise with their limited stocks when the wives and families descend on them.
In charge of this migration back to the villages is Lieutenant K. F. Marley, of Brisbane, who spent eight years in Papua and New Guinea before the war.
With him is a team of experienced men including Corporal R. W. Campbell and Corporal D. J. Peterson, both of Queens land.
Miss M. P. Barry, who arrived in Fiji in June, has been appointed a Child Wel fare Nurse.