Montoro Passengers To New Guinea

Among passengers to New Guinea on the August “Montoro” were: TOP (left to right): Miss R. Berry, who was going to Dobu, Papua, for the Methodist Mission. Mr. J. R. Andrew, chairman of the Methodist Mission, Dobu, returning after furbough in Australia, Mrs. Andrew, who accompanied Mr. Andrew; she has been in Australia since the evacuation of Papua in 1942. Mrs. Denis S. Mullaly, who joined her husband on Natava Plantation, New Britain. Mrs. A. Jefford, who joined her husband in port Moresby. Mrs. W. MacGowan, to rejoin her husband, now of Port Moresby, but formerly of Rabaul, NG. Mr. Graeme Carson, who was en route to the family plantations on Fead Island; his father was lost on the “Montevideo Maru."

LOWER: Mr. T. L. Crew, who went to Samarai, Papua, to join the staff of Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd. Miss Nola Ashworth, a new recruit to Civil Administration, Port Moresby. Miss G. Long, of the SDA Mission (nursing staff), en route to the solomons. Capt. R. M. Beard, for Rabaul, where he will be MO in the 8th Military District HQ. Mrs. E. McDonald, who has joined the staff of Hotel Papua, port Moresby; she was formerly with the CSR Co. in Fiji. The Rev. S. T. Purcell, of the Anglican Mission, Dogura, near Samarai. Mrs. N. A. W. Macdonald, who rejoined her husband on Wangaramut Plantation, New Britain.