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ffRIGADIER-GENERAL Basil Morris , Commanding Officer, ANGAU, recently left his Port Moresby head quarters on an extended tour of his domain aboard the “Laurabada” (which has been handed over to ANGAU by the Navy). He was accompanied by several staff officers and the full band of the Royal Papuan Constabulary.
In the course of his tour he arrived off Kwato Mission, near Samarai, where an official call was paid with much pomp.
News of the visit there of General Morris and his entourage quickly spread by bush wireless to Milne Bay, where an American officer, a little away from his base, duly was in formed of the news in a hastily scribbled note.
The American sat up as though stung, then rushed to the nearest phone and rang his base. “Say, there,” he inquired excitedly, “is it true that General Motors are starting up in Kwato?”