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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1950Vol. XXI, No. 2

No Parcels To Netherlands

p. 38 · Read in the full issue

New Guinea

THE Australian Postmaster-General an nounced in late August, that parcel post between Australia and Nether lands New Guinea had been suspended owing to difficulty of maintaining com munication.

Air and surface mail letters were still going through however.

The Rev. W. J. Hudson, formerly of Hertfordshire, England, will be enthroned shortly at All Souls’ Cathedral, Thurs day Island, as Bishop of Carpentaria. His former parish had an area of two square miles; his new diocese will have an area of 620,000 square miles.

Pilot Jeff Withers, a new resident of Lae, New Guinea, was married in Ade laide in August before he left for the Territory.