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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1949Vol. XX, No. 3

Rabaul's New Do

p. 45 · Read in the full issue

From Our Own Correspondent

Rabaul, Sept. 8.

MR. J. K. MCCARTHY, formerly District Officer. Madang, New Guinea, arrived in Rabaul to-day. accompanied by his wife. He will take over the duties of District Officer.

Rabatil, from Mr. C. D. Bates (District Officer) and Mr. W. E. Sansom (acting DO) on the morning of September 9, and will depart at once for the District Officers’ Conference to be held in Port Moresby.

Mr. W. E. Sansom, who was Acting District Officer, Rabaul, while Mr. C. D.

Bates was on leave, will depart on the same plane on transfer to Port Moresby.

Commander William Burrows, who has spent the past couple of years in Africa and Europe, left London for Fiji, via New Zealand, at the end of Sep tember. He proposes to make his per manent home in Fiji.