Photographer Wins Praise
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MR. ROB WRIGHT, of the Public Re lations Office, Suva, well-known throughout the Pacific as an ex tremely competent photographer, has landed in the top flight by the inclusion of his “Goldmines at Dusk,” in the latest issue of the London annual, “Photography To-day.”
The photograph shows a wide sweep of the Vatukoula mining area and, by capturing the dramatic quality of the flare and glow of distant furnaces against a darkening mountain background, the picture represents a notable technical achievement “S.”
Miss T. M. O’Brien, of Madang, New Guinea, is spending portion of her three months’ vacation in Brisbane and the south coast of Queensland.
When he arrived in Brisbane recently after a 12-day flying visit to Islands’ war cemeteries, Brigadier Brown (secretary general of the Imperial War Graves Commission), said that the graves were extremely well kept. The cemeteries at Lae, and near Port Moresby, and at Bita paka, near Kopoko, in New Britain, had been made the chief cemeteries in the islands area. More than 9,000 war dead were buried there. Brigadier Brown ex pressed the hone that when transport became available, people in Australia would visit those places and see the beauty of the cemeteries for themselves.