The Joys Of Life In
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New Guinea
A CORRESPONDENT, writing in early October, said there were no beer supplies in Madang, New Guinea, but plenty of spirits and tobacco were available.
A leg of lamb cost 16/-, and 9/- was the cost of a cabbage. Butter prices ranged from 3/- to 4/- a lb., while tea was 7/2 a lb.
Madang, however, now enjoys the ad vantage of electric lighting.
Mr. A. G. D. Walton, who has been acting-schoolmaster and acting-post master at Nauru, left the island in Sep tember for Australia.
During the last week in August, Mrs.
R. M. Best was married to Mr. G. E.
Markey at the LMS church in Nauru.
Both are residents of the island.
According to Mr. D. J. Rooney (Cons truction Superintendent) Brisbane, three quarters of the applicants for tax-free jobs in Papua-New Guinea offered by the Works and Housing Department, were ex-Servicemen. Labour, he said, was re quired particularly for Kokopo and Lae.