Humour In New Guinea

HUMORISTS in Papua-New Guinea have been circulating a “new prayer’* and “hymn” for the use of bureau crats. The prayer reads; “Oh Lord, grant that this day we may come to no deci sions: neither run into any kind of re sponsibility; but that all our doings may be ordered to establish new Departments, for ever and ever —Amen.” The “hvmn” is equally disrespectful. The first verse reads: — “Oh Thou who seest all things below, Grant that thy servants may go slow, That they may study to comply With regulations till they die.”

Monsieur and Madame R. G. Folliet, passengers on the “Monkay,” which reached Brisbane recently from Noumea, were on their way to France to meet a son they had not seen for eleven years.

M. Folliet, who has been President of the Court of Justice in Noumea for three years, said that he and his wife had last seen their son, Jacques, when he was six.

He is now at school in Brittany. M.

Folliet was legal adviser to the Siamese Government for 12 years. He left Siam shortly before the war, and went to Aus tralia as Publicity Officer for the Free French.

The Hon. Olive Buckley, daughter of Lord Wrenbury, of Buff Cottage, Seaford, Sussex, England, and a qualified medical practitioner, arrived in Brisbane recently by air from England. She was on her way to take up medical mission work with headquarters at the Anglican Mis sion Station at Dogura, Papua. She won a Rockefeller Research Scholarship a few years ago, and was for some time on the staff of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Mel bourne. During the war, she was a med ical officer in the Lakes District in Eng land. She is a member of a family which has distinguished itself in the legal and medical professions.