Notes From Madang

From a Special Correspondent BRIGHT and breezy Ralph Cambridge, big-shot plantation inspector for “Carpenters,” was here the other day; and genial Tony Corlass, Ralph’s contemporary, also paid us a call. What those two old stalwarts don’t know about coconuts and native labour isn’t worth knowing.

Glad to see “Ned” O’Brien and wife back from South. The old battler was lucky to get over a bad bout of pneu monia. He did not respond to injections —but a glass of cold beer probably saved his life!

Those poor police-boys! How would you like to be garbed in that heavy blue serge and have two yards of the material wrapped around your loins? Why don’t they give them something sensible and comfortable —light and suitable for the tropics?

There should be no deaths in Madang when Dr. and Mrs. Theo. Braun arrive shortlv, and take up residence at the elaborate native hospital a few miles on the Madang side The amiable doctor is a genius with the knife, and an authority on tropical diseases, and he and his charming wife will be a valued ac quisition to the district.

Pastor and Mrs. Gander. Seventh Day Mission, shortly leave Madang on the new £9,000 motor-vessel, Leleman, for the Sepik, where they will make their new home. Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Barnard fpid child, also of the Seventh Day Mission, recently left Madang for Mt. Hagen. Mr.

Barnard will open up a leprosarium there.

Bright, dapper little John Siegers, a Malayan, who was brought to NG 37 years ago by the German regime, spent some time at Madang recently with his sister.

John is produce, shipping and customs man for Colyer. Watsons, Rabaul, and can rightly claim to be one of NG’s hardest and most conscientious toilers.

Mr. N. Cochrane has been appointed a District Magistrate in Fiji and will leave England on September 24 to take up his new post. Mr. Cochrane was educated at King William’s College, Isle of Man, and called to the Bar in June, 1938. Up to the time of his appointment to Fiji he was a practising barrister in the Leeward Islands.