Correction And Apology

In December we published a photograph of a Tongan Royal Group, taken about 1918. From left to right the persons photographed were Prince Tugi (Consort of Queen Salote); an Aide de-camp; Sir Cecil Rodwell (Governor of Fiji); Captain Clive Brewster; Queen Salote; Premier of Tonga; Mrs. McOwan; Mr. Islay McOwan (British Consul). In describing the photograph we said that all these people, except Queen Salote, were dead.

Many correspondents have hastened to correct this unfortunate statement. Sir Cecil Rodwell is very much alive at his home, “Woodlands,”

Holbrook, near Ipswich, England. He retired from the Governorship of Southern Rhodesia in 1934. Mrs. McOwan, widow of Mr. Islay McOwan, is a. resident of Sydney and is «lso very well, It is believed also that the aide-de-camp is still alive. We express regret for any annoyance caused to these people.

EXPLANATION: In Papua-New Guinea to-day the more sophisticated natives are rolling in money. A very large sum has been distributed among them as “war damage compensation”. This money is not out of the special War Damage Fund, for Europeans—it comes out of Australian Consolidated Revenue, provided by Aus tralian taxpayers. Any native who goes to the Administration officer, and makes a confident claim for property allegedly lost, is handed over the cash, and few questions asked . . . The embarrassed trader, in the above sketch, got himself out of trouble by disguising himself as a native. —After a drawing by Top-Sgt. T. G. Smith.