Major Ayris Returns To
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New Guinea
THE planters of the Kokopo district propose to make a first-class establish ment of the Kokopo Sports Club, and Major E. B. Ayris has been appointed manager. Major Ayris will leave Sydney for Kokopo at an early date.
Major Ayris is well known in the Ter itory, where he spent more than 25 years. for many years he was military instructor to the New Guinea police. Then, being retired on account of age, he entered the service of New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., and was a well-known figure at Wau beefoe the invasion. During World War II he served for some 2 or 3 years on the ‘little ships”; and, since the end of the war, he has been living on a station in Queensland. He is looking forward eagerly to renewing old friendships in the Territory.
The Australian miners’ strike is the reason given why the sale of flour in New Caledonia is again being controlled, The population has been asked not to waste bread. There is also a shortage of other Australian foodstuffs.