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Generation Papuan Officer
ON August 10, a wedding of unusual interest to Papua took place at St.
James Church of England, Too woomba, when Miss Florence Scroxton was married to Mr. Neville Chester. The grandfathers of both the young people were officers of the Papuan Administra tion; and Mr. Neville Chester is himself an Administration official, and the young couple will live in Port Moresby.
The bridegroom’s great-grandfather was the famous H. M. Chester who an nexed British New Guinea (now Papua) for the Australian State Governments more than sixty years ago, when there was danger that all New Guinea would be seized bv Germany. His son, and his grandson (Mr. Neville Chester’s father, Mr. W. N. Chester) have all been in the Papuan Government service.,