Creeper Is A Pest In

G. And E. Colony

VERY recently, a green creeping plant (Convolvulus ?) has appeared in the Gilbert and Ellice Colony and to day is growing rapidly over the scars of battle and old camp sites. There is little doubt that if left to itself it will oust the remaining small green vegetation.”

The foregoing is from “Polynesian Society’s Journal,” from an article by Mr.

I. G. Turbott, an officer of the G. & E.

Administration. It gives warning of a parasitical weed that may do much harm on those coral atolls where, already, the light vegetation—including the few food plants grown by the natives—is extremely limited.

Judge Ralph T. Gore and Mrs. Gore, of Papua-New Guinea, who suffered a serious blow in the death of their only

son, and who have been spending leave in Queensland, are expected back in Port Moresby about the end of May.