The “Waste-Not” Era
p. 17 · Read in the full issue
THAT we are now well into the period when the normally and apparently useless becomes valuable, is indi cated in the Papua-New Guinea Govern ment Gazette of January 22. Therein ten ders are called for 3’k miles of three-inch black piping at Ward’s Drome, Port Moresby. The piping is still bufied in the ground. Tenders are called also for 991 black-iron, 40-gallon drums and 420 steel drums.
The new High Commissioner of Western Samoa, Mr. G. R. Powles, visited Fiji and Tonga this month. The retiring High Commissioner, Lieutenant-Colonel F. W.
Voelcker, is scheduled to leave Western Samoa late in February.
More "Matua" Passengers
Passengers who recently left Suva, Fiji, on the MV “Matua,” for Auckland, NZ, included—(Top): Captain and Mrs. W. R. Percy, who will holiday in New Zealand. Mr. K. Muyer, of Apia, Western Samoa, also to holiday in NZ. (Lower): Mr. H. F. Hopkinson, Mrs. N. Simons, Mrs. Hop kinson and young son, who were on their way south on leave. Mr. and Mrs. J. Gilles and family, of Labasa, where Mr. Gilles is chief engineer of the CSR mill, who will spend three months’ leave in the Dominion.