Correction

Old Salamaua Photo

LAST month we published a photo graph, kindly loaned by Mr. Jim Hoile, now of Terrigal, NSW.

It showed a group, taken about 1927, of New Guinea goldfields pioneers outside the Salamaua Hotel. One member of the group was Mr. Clem Hendry, whom we reported dead. A reader now informs us that Mr. Hendry is very much alive.

He left New Guinea about 1935. He was in business in NSW for several years.

He is now living in Caulfield, Melbourne, and is in the Records Branch of the RAN.

He has married again since leaving New Guinea.

This reader also explains the cham pagne corks referred to by Mr. Hoile: apparently the roofing nails protuded through the battens beneath. It became a matter of friendly rivalry between Harry Darbv and Hector Wales, who were then doing well on Edie Creek, to see who could first fill a row of nails with cham pagne corks. Later the custom became general and anyone who bought cham pagne was privileged to stxid a “monkey up to fix the cork to a nail.