Pacific

Islands

Monthly

March, 1950

Vol. XX. No. 8

Established 1930.

I Registered at the G.P.0., Sydney, jer transmission by post as a ]

THE Hallstrom Trust meets at Nondugl, Central Highlands, New Guinea, against a background of local VlP’s and the cloud-capped mountains that wall in the Wahgi Valley, The Administrator of Papua-New Guinea, Colonel J. K. Murray, is at extreme left, next to him is Mr. Grainger, of P-NG Dept, of Agriculture; Mr. J. H. Jones, P-NG Director of Planning; Mr. Dan Clyne, MLA of NSW; Senator Armstrong, then Australian Minister for Supply and Development; and at extreme right, Mr. E. J.

Hallstrom. (An article on Mr. Hallstrom’s plans to grow tea at Nondugl appeared in February PIM. The sheep that were flown in last year are already well established there.) —Photo by Clarence B. Young. ARPS, ARSA.