In Pre-War N. Guinea

(See Article on page 62)

THE sub-joined photographs of people and events in New Guinea are supplied by Mr.

L. Cohen, formerly of Wau, TNG, and now a building contractor in Auckland.

RIGHT: At The Black Cat mine,—Back: Harry O’Kane, Joe Olsson. Centre: Ted Foad. Lower: Dick Glasson. Fraser.

Mrs. Ada Reynolds, of Neutral Bay, Sydney, will return to New Guinea shortly. She was a pre-war resident of Rabaul, and lost both her husband and a son on the “Montevideo Maru” in June, 1942.

The marriage of Miss Joan Cherry to Mr. Robert H. Sass will take place in Port Moresby about the middle of next September. Miss Cherry left the northern capital for Port Moresby last October to take up a position with the Common wealth Disposals Commission.

A daughter was bom at the Lutheran Mission Hospital, Finschhafen, New Guinea, on June 21, to Mr. and Mrs. Eric M. Roy. Mr. Roy is an Administration Medical Assistant.

The Maui Pomare left Rarotonga on June 24 loaded with 10,240 cases of oranges, 1,908 of tomatoes, 422 of man darines, tangarines and lemons, and 320 of grapefruit, which had been picked up at that port and at Atui, Mauke, and Mangaia.

CENTRE: Part of the First Pacific Islands Regiment Band, formed at Nadzab by Lieut. W.

Ryder (assisted in early stages by Mr. L. Cohen).

These natives came from all over the Territories and —for men who had had little knowledge of such things—they made remarkable progress as bandsmen.

LOWER: The picture-theatre at Wau, NG. staggering after its first hit by a Jap bomb, in 1942.