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Pacific Islands Monthly, 18 July 1947Vol. XVII, No. 12

Sharpies Ban On Building

p. 85 · Read in the full issue

Materials For Ng

Letter to the Editor HO-DAY the ABC announced that roof- L ing iron that was to have been de -3 lolded hod by thB “ Malaita ” would not A Methodist minister apparently de ded, like our “Indonesian Comrades ” ► ignore the Government of Australia id appealed to the wharf labourers direct 3t to load the iron as he considered was more urgently needed in Aus cl lift. 1 These peopie seem to lose sight of the ict that Government approval is ►tained for the purchase of building aterial in Australia before it can be irchased and shipped to New Guinea is ’ that the Purchaser Operty d t 0 the USe or P° ssessi °n of his Some responsibility for loss, delay, damf tc -’ hP° U Jn be sh £ eted home to those isstonaiies. ey ' f labourers or I am. etc..

W. R. B. Thomas.

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The ban on shipment of ildmg materials to Papua-New Guinea s subsequently lifted by the Sydney I t p BrS r!sff rS ‘- was Droved them that ie material was needed to construct )d stores m New Guinea”).

Elsie Luff, formerly of Darn pua was married to Mr. Norman IS"?? 4, Townsville, in Cairns on 4 - Mlss is the second daughter Mr. Leonard Luff, a well-known re ent of Papua, and Mrs. Luff.