New Guinea's Only
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Representative
Sergeant K. M. Brodie, Who Had
over four years’ active service in the Australian 2/17th Battalion, and in ANGAU, appears to have been the only New Guinea lad chosen for the Australian Victory Contingent, which sailed for London in April. He is here shown in a Sydney street with his sister, Miss Mar jorie Brodie, who is going to New Guinea shortly to marry an officer of the Ad ministration. The Brodie family were well-known residents of Rabaul prior to the Jap invasion.
A private but influential section of the European and Samoan communities of Western Samoa has asked the New Zea land Government to keep in touch with Dr. M. M. Gowland, with a view to his appointment to the position of Chief Medical Officer, when Dr. P. J. Monag han retires, probably in 1947. Dr. Gow land is regarded as a successful physician and skilful surgeon, and he has been held in high regard personally. He left Samoa recently for England, to the openly-ex pressed regret of all classes.