Sympathy Acknowledged
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Letter to the Editor ON behalf of my wife, family and self, I beg permission, through your col umns, to thank the manv friends from the Islands and various * Darts of Australia who have sent us letters and radiograms of sympathy concerning the death of our beloved son Geoff, lost to us as the result of a Jeeo accident at Rabaul on May 10.
I am, etc..
Norman White
Wau, TNG. 20/5/47.
New Caledonian motorists, under a new taxation schedule, must pay 600 francs per annum for vehicles used for trans port of goods, and for large passenger cars; 400 francs for smaller cars with two or three seats; and 200 francs for a motor cycle, There is a supplementary tax for cars of 55 francs per horse-power. This tax is reduced by 50 per cent for cars more than seven years old.
Mrs. E. A. Ray and her two children departed recently on the SS “Reynella” for Rabaul where they will rejoin Mr, Ray who is manager in Rabaul for Burns, Philp &' Co,, Ltd.