New City And Journal
p. 64 · Read in the full issue
In Borneo
THE establishment of the new British Colony of North Borneo (taking the place of one of the last areas ad ministered by a Chartered Company) is fittingly celebrated by the appearance of No. 1 of Volume 1 of the “North Borneo News,” established in Sandakan on March 1 and published every fortnight.
It is well designed and well printed.
Within the coloured cover and 20 pages there is a compendium of North Borneo and Indonesian news, as well as an im pressive array of advertisements. One gets the impression that the new Colony of North Borneo is flourishing and opti mistic.
By the time the Japanese had been driven out of North Borneo in 1945, there was little of the city of Sandakan left above ground. Yet, to-day, less than three years afterwards, “a new town, busy and prosperous, has arisen Phoenix like, from the rubble and the ashes of the old.
The whole of the old town site, except for a block or two near the Slip-way, is re occupied.”
During her April voyage to the South Pacific, the “Matua“ was diverted from Apia to Niue Island to pick up a sick Native Medical Practitioner. A relief NMP was taken to Niue and the sick man taken on the ship to hospital in Fiji.