Kwato Boys Look Over
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Australian Industry
MR. Cecil Abel, of Kwato Mission, near Samarai, Papua, was showing two of his brightest boys around Aus tralian industry during March. They have since returned home.
The visitors representing Milne Bay (Papua) villages, it was reported, were investigating the passibilities of opening a canning works for the processing of such fish as tuna. They went to Canberra to interview Government officials and hoped to obtain assistance there in the
wa Y of trawlers to catch the fish. A fish cannery is nothing if not an ambitious undertaking for native enterprise. More than one shrewd European businessman has fallen down on that project. How ever, there is no telling what may be accomplished these days with Govern ment backing. .
The boys also visited furniture factories. tanneries, and a newspaper all with the idea of the economic progress of their own communities at Milne Bay. —— ——7 .
Mr. A. L. Abraham has been transferred from Fiji to British Honduras, where he will be Superintendent of Police.