Senator Kendall Has Unofficial But

Instructive to NG

MR. ROY KENDALL who was well known in New Britain where he was a schooner master before the war, was elected to the Senate as a Liberal Member for Queensland at the last Australian elections.

In January he paid a visit to Rabaul where he was warmly welcomed as the first representative of the new Australian

Government. His visit was quite un official, but he gathered much informa tion as to the present condition of the Territory which, no doubt, will be of great value to him and to the new Government when it goes into action in February.

Senator Kendall is a “Royal Navy type.”

He was a reservist who was called up at

the outbreak of World War 11, and later, with the rank of Cap tain he was in charge of RN In telligence in Bris bane. He did not return to New Guinea after the war—one reason, no doubt being that under the Ed - Wardian socialist regime, private ships were not permitted to operate freely in Territory waters.!

As reported in the January PIM, coastal shipping in the Territory

is at the point of complete collapse.

Residents have not been backward in ac quainting Senator Kendall of this fact.

His reputation for direct methods and for getting things done leads them to hope that the present situation will not be per mitted to exist much longer.

Senator Kendall.

Photo by Meen.