'Had' N. Guinea
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N. Britain Planter Has 'Had' N. Guinea
Mr. Dyson Hore-Lacy, Whose
Garua Plantation, in the Talasea district of New Britain, is one of the show-places of New Guinea, has returned to Sydney from a brief visit, and says that he does not intend to live in the Territory any longer. A competent man ager will carry on at Garua, and he has sold his Ulatawa oroperty (in the Kokopo district) to Mrs. Greenwood.
Mr Hore-Lacy. who has been president of the Planters’ Association for some time in New Britain, has now resigned that office, and Mr. Vic Pennefather has
taken over the reins of that organisa tion.
“Under present conditions I find it im possible to remain in New Guinea,’’ said Mr. Hore-Lacy, “and there are quite a number of others with the same idea.’’
He intends residing on the land in Vic toria.
Mr. Raleigh Farlow, District Officer at Buka Passage, who has been spending a few months’ leave in Sydney, returned to New Guinea by air last week.
The young Caledonian volunteer, Marc Moutry, who was killed at Bir Hakeim with the Pacific Battalion, has posthum ously been awarded the French Resis tance Medal.