It Was Love At First Sight!

TERRITORIANS in Australia at the end of May expressed themselves freely, and not respectfully, when the Sunday newspaper displayed a large photograph of a man whom they des cribed as a Papuan native, with an elderly European woman, and announced that they were to be married, and that it was “love at first sight”.

The prospective groom is Samuel Wilson, who says he is 63, came to Aust ralia to live some 50 years ago, served with the AIF in World War I, and is a war pensioner (gas) and a “missioner”.

The lady is Miss Ann Toney, 64, old age pensioner. Both of them live in South Brisbane. They were to marry on June 3.

They met in the street, according to the lady. Wilson said: “It was love at first sight. I had been praying to the Lord to send me a help-mate. When Ann stood in front of me, I thought, ‘She is mine’ . . . This marriage will be good for my people—to show them that a Papuan native can marry an Australian girl.”

Rather a silly newspaper stunt. For tunately Anno Domini removes a good deal of what Port Moresby might regard as social embarrassment.

The Rev. J, F. Goldie, who first went to BSI as a missionary in 1902 and is still living in New Georgia, has completed arrangements for the printing in Austra lia of the New Testament in the Roviana language. Mr. Goldie has also arranged for publication of a Roviana-English dic tionary and notes on Roviana grammar and a new and enlarged Roviana hymn book.