Presumed Dead
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Judge R. T. Gore, who was head of the judiciary in Papua until the evacuation in 1942, and who since has filled a judi cial position in Adelaide, returned to the Territories in November. It is understood he will resume his office there.
Flying-Officer James Alwyn Ewen, son of Mr.
J. E. Ewen, formerly manager of Burns Philp & Co., Kokopo, New Guinea, who was reported missing over France in July, 1944, and who has now been officially listed as “presumed dead.”
He was born in Suva, Fiji, 26 years ago, and attended Dookie Agricultural College in Vic toria; after graduating with a Diploma of Agri culture, he joined the New Guinea Department of Agriculture. He enlisted in 1942, and was later attached to a Lancaster bomber squadron in England as a navigator. He married in 1942.
His sister, Section-Officer June Ewen, WAAF, was at one time secretary of the New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney.