Papua-Ng Needs A
p. 76 · Read in the full issue
Treasurer
And A Harbourmaster
THE Papua-New Guinea ‘Government Gazette” of June 21 calls applica tions for two first grade positions in the Provisional Administration —Treasurer and Harbour Master.
The commencing salary of the Tieasurer will be £1,150, free of income tax. His functions will be to advise the Admin istrator on financial affairs and organise and control the Treasury Department.
He should have a degree in Commerce, or be a member of an Accountancy In stitute.
The pre-war Treasurers of both Papua and Mandated New Guinea, either of whom normally would probably have been called upon to fill this position in the Provisional Administration, are both dead, Mr. S. Smith, formerly Papuan Admin istration treasurer, died a year or so after the suspension of civil administration in Papua, in February, 1942.
Mr, H. O. Townsend, who was Treasurer of the Mandated Territory Administra tion, was one of those trapped in Rabaul in January, 1942. He subsequently lost his life, when the “Montevideo Maru” was sunk.
Headquarters of the Harbour Master (whose salary will be £786, increasing to £B5B. free of income tax) will for the present be in Port Moresby, but he will be required to serve anywhere in the combined Territory. His duties will be nautical adviser and marine surveyor to the Administration. Master of the Government vessel, pilot, .consultant on wharves, repairs to watercraft, and up keep of lighthouses and beacons.