New Guinea Silver Wedding
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From a Special Correspondent RESIDENTS of Madang recently gath ered at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Ronald Chugg to offer them con gratulations on the occasion of their Sil ver Wedding anniversary. The Chuggs were married in Kavieng 25 years ago and their elder daughter was born there — this, for the Territory, which was under military occupation until 1920, constitutes something of a record.
Mr. Chugg is an officer of the Publi-.
Health Department and he and Mrs Chugg are held in high regard in Madang where much of his PHD service has been spent.
Residents turned out in full force to cele brate their 25th. wedding anniversary; Mr. Roy Macgregor proposed the toast and presented them with a cheque from Madang well-wishers.
In reply Mr. Chugg produced the bon mot of the evening by stating somewhat ambiguously: ‘Twenty-five years ago to day, in Kavieng, I married this little giv l here in patched pants.”
Today things are just as tough in the Territorv as they were in 1922, but the (fact that respected residents like the Chuggs are still carrying on gives us cause to hope that eventually order will emerge from post-war chaos.
Tahiti public offices have resumed the “semaine Anglaise” which was abandoned during the war. Daily hours of work are fixed at seven—from 7.30 to 11.30 a.m., and from 2 to 5 p.m.