"Ormiston" Passengers

Some of the passengers who left Sydney on the “Ormiston” on May 10 for Papua and New Guinea. Top: Mrs. D. Carpenter, of Morangis Plantation, Madang, who returns to the Terri tory after five years in Australia. Sixteen-year old James Ritchie, who has been at school in Tasmania since 1934. He was accompanied by his father, Mr. B. M. Ritchie, well-known engineer of the Administration vessel “Laura bada,” and his young brother.

Centre: Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Olsson, who are returning to the Bitoi River, Morobe, where Mr.

Olsson was gold-mining for nine years before the evacuation of 1942.

Bottom: Mr. Jack Hayes, who is returning to Port Moresby, after four years in Sydney as an evacuee. Mr. G. J. R. (“Roy”) Cox, who is on his way to Rabaul, via Port Moresby. Pre viously on the “Laurabada,” with headquarters in Moresby, he will now be skipper of the Administration vessel in Rabaul. He has just spent three months’ leave in Australia.