Appeal To New Guinea

From Sweden

Letter to the Editor I AM asking a favour. I was a resident of New Guinea for 20 years, but I sailed over to Australia, when the Japs invaded in 1941, in a small boat.

I was the discoverer of Surprise Creek; and, later, I ran an inter-island schooner service, and Kokola Plantation.

I have been all over the world since then. I was torpedoed three times, and I saw the invasion of Sicily and Okinawa, and I finished up as a skipper for UNRRA, in the Philippines.

I am now in Sweden, and I am trying to write a book. As all my photos from New Guinea were lost in the torpedoings, and I want some for the book, I should very much appreciate it if any of my old friends, who are still alive, would kindly send me some—preferably from the gold

fields and the plantations. I am also anxious to hear from them, of course, and I promise to write back. My address is: Captain Ove Hertz, c/o Ringstrom, Vasa batan SC, Goteborg, Sweden.

Thanking you in anticipation, I am, etc.,

O. Hertz.

The Noumea municipality has taken over the pumping station of the Montagne Coupee near Noumea, New Caledonia, which the Americans built to supply water to their many camps in the town area.

The cost of operating the plant is nearly two and a half million francs a year (£15,500 Aust.), which is considered too heavy, so an appeal is being made to townsfolk not to waste water. The muni cipality has voted only enough money to carry the plant on for three more months.