New Government Station In

N. Guinea

From Our Own Correspondent

Port Moresby, Aug. 23.

ANEW Government station is to be established immediately at Tele fomin, in the Sepik District of Aus tralian New Guinea near the Dutch border. Telefomin is accessible only by air, and Mr, Ivan Champion, who was re cently in the area, went in by Auster air craft to establish the site, after surveying the area from the air, to find a suitable landing strip.

Mr. D. Clifton Bassett, who was very recently promoted to the position of Assistant District Officer at Rigo, will be the ADO in charge of the post. He will have with him Patrol Officer Zweck, who is at present at Wewak and a dozen native police. Mr. Bassett, who was one of the outstanding patrol officers of the ANGAU vintage, had considerable experi ence in the Central Highlands during the war.

Supplies for the new station have been shipped from Moresby, and it is under stood that Mrs. Bassett will leave Moresby shortly. Personnel and supplies will be flown into the new Station, It is understood that this is the first extension of Administration control since the resumption of Civil Administration.

Mr, H. E. Snell, managing-director of Morris Hedstrom Ltd. passed through Sydney early in September on his way home to Suva from London. He was in London when the NZ £ returned to parity with storing; and he probably will have something interesting to say about the decision of the British Colonial Office (announced on September 6) to keep the Fiji £ at 12V. per cent, under sterling.