Search For Next Of Kin

Of A. R. Reed

THE Curator of Interstate Estates, Papua-New Guinea, is searching for the next-of-kin of Arthur Ridley Reed, who was a dairyman in Rabaul, NG, before the Japanese invasion. He was lost in the sinking of the Montevideo Maru.

Prior to living in New Guinea, h$ held property on the main Warwick-Ipswich Road, near Boonah, Queensland and it is believed that he had lived in South Africa prior to his arrival in Australia.

Sale of Oceanic series of stamps in metropolitan France brought to the Tahitian Post Office the sum of nearly six million Pacific francs during 1948.