Response
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Money For Distressed
Children
Papua-N. Guinea’s Generous Response
IN a Government Gazette, dated October 19, there is evidence of one of the really remarkable demonstrations in the history of Papua-New Guinea, In 1948, the Administrator, Colonel J.
K. Murray, asked Messrs. J. H. Ahearn, J. H. Jones, District Officers and others, to organise an appeal for funds for the alleviation of distress among the children of the world. The response exceeded all expectations.
At the end of 1948 and early 1949, the Territories Committee remitted, through the Administrator, no less than £17,077 to the Australian Committee of the UNO Children’s Appeal, The details show that nearly every community in nearly every administrative district subscribed generously; and the following analysis indicates the way in which the native peoples—individuals as well as by villages—responded to the appeal.
Fijian delegates to the Methodist Synod, which met in Suva during October, made a presentation to Miss P. Brokenshire, who is to retire after 34 years’ service with the Methodist Mission in the Colony.
She went to Fiji in 1915 and has served
at Methodist Mission Girls’ Schools at Dilkusha, Richmond (Kadavu), Ba, Lau toka and Mauavolo. At present she is at Delainavesi School.
The retail price of milk in Fiji has been raised to 4id. per pint but this does not stop vendors from stretching it by adding water. Three Indian vendors were brought before Suva Court recently—one of them was selling “milk” which had 53.8 per cent, of added water.
N. Ireland 213 146 567 New Ireland Dist 213 146 567 Sepik Dist. . 408 45 1.865
European Chinese Native £ £ £ Central Dis, . 3,075 — 301 Eastern Dist. 1,194 — 416 E. Cent. Dist. 38 109 Delta Dist. .. 46 — — Gulf Dist. 114 North Dist. .. 119 — 280 SE Division .. 110 — 231 West Dist. . 69 — 22 Madang Dist. . 329 81 7 Kieta Dist. .. 319 34 1,165 Manus Dist. . 20 — Cent. Highlands .. 259 51 Morobe Dist. . 1,328 115 702 New Britain Dist 715 1,176 1,433