Loyalty of N. Guinea

Natives

AN old resident of Wau, New Guinea, who was closely connected with contract labour in pre-invasion days, writes interestingly : WHENEVER I travel in the Territories, now, I am always struck with the fealty and friendship of the many natives whom I encounter when visiting the ANGAU organisations.

I look up as many as I can —and I am known to thousands of them —and all I come in contact with show distinct plea sure in meeting me. This makes me feel that, by and large, we shall get loyalty from them -later on—if they are not tampered with by the Canberra toughs.

It is good to my ears to hear: “Oh, master, me like work long you one more time by’mby.” Many of them say this with, I believe, sincerity.

Miss Dilys Rowlands, of the Methodist Mission, who has been appointed to a teaching position at the Girls’ School in Tonga, has now arranged for her passage from New Zealand.

Mr. H. L. Freshwater, who for some time was a member of the Melanesian Mission in the Solomons, died recently in Sydney.

He did much valuable work for the Mission.