Death Of Albert Dudley

Well-known Morobe Miner

ONE of the best-known miners of the Morobe district, New Guinea, Mr.

Albert Dudley, was killed in a _car accident in New South Wales on Novem ber 25. He had been in Australia since the evacuation of the Territory in 1942 but hoped to return to Wau soon.

Mr. Dudley was a World War I veteran and went to New Guinea for the Ex propriation Board soon after the armis tice. In 1926 he' left the Board and joined the prevailing gold-rush to the Morobe field, where he did well. He re mained in the district until evacuated by plane in early 1942 and was, in his last vears on the field, working a Bulolo Gold Dredging tribute.

During the evacuee period he first bought a newsagency on the North Shore in Sydnev and later sold that to go into the Camelia Grove Hotel in Alexandria.

He was known to most New Guinea people and well liked. He is survived by a wife and two daughters.

One of Noumea’s old weatherboard hotels, the Hotel Sebastopol alongside Government House, has been sold to M.

Bonnace for 1,600,000 francs (£10,000).

Recently the Hotel National, in the port area, changed hands also for a large sum.

Hotelkeepers have reaped a rare harvest over the war years, but now the Ameri cans have almost pulled out the town is dropping back to its state of pre-war stagnation. A number of French metro politan soldiers who have done their ser vice in the Colony have asked to be de mobilised here, with the idea of becom ing permanent settlers. They need the consent of the Governor. —H.E.L.P.