Are Not

To-Day S Pirates

On The High Seas

Evidencr 1 npriimniQtfiQ tho comi VIJJFNOE accumulates that the semi criminal, semi-Communist gangs which control the wharf workers in most of the Australian ports are slowly but surely strangling a considerable pro portion of Australia’s overseas trade. Their laziness, inefficiency and dishonesty are making the ports so costly that ship

owners and traders are showing a growing disinclination to face them.

A good example is provided by the new French ship Mekong, She travelled recently from Marseilles to Melbourne in days, and proceeded to take on cargo f or n 6 w Caledonia. She was forced to spend no less than 41 days in three Aus tralian ports, before she could get loaded and away. New Caledonian merchants have complained bitterly—but to no purpose All Pacific traders and shippers voice similar complaints.

Mrs. Barbara V. Lea, daughter of Mrs.

H. Taylor, of Waverley, Sydney, and Mr.

Loring G. Hudson, of Honolulu, were married in Honolulu on May 15, They will reside in Honolulu where Mr. Hudson is executive secretary of the Pacific Science Association Secretariat, with offices in Bishop Museum. Both were with the South Pacific Commission in Noumea, on special assignments, in 1949 • —Mrs. Hudson as a member of the secre tarial staff and Mr. Hudson as informa tion officer.

Death Of Territorian

A recent photograph of the late Mr. H. G.

Murray, well-known planter of Witu, New Guinea, whose sudden death was reported in June PIM.