Trusteeship Council
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Mr. Powles To Attend
From Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Nov. 22.
THE High Commissioner of Western Samoa, Mr. G. R. Powles, left Apia, with Mrs. Powles, on November 20 by plane for Wellington, New Zealand.
Mr. Powles will later proceed to Lake Success to attend the meeting of the UN Trusteeship Council during the debate on Western Samoa.
A Mr. Edser, of London, who arrived in Brisbane recently by the Bulolo, said that timber was so plentiful in New Guinea, walnut logs were being used for house rafters. Tremendous quantities of other good timber were standing untapped in New Guinea jungles. For the past 15 months Mr. Edser had been building houses in New Guinea and New Britain.
He intends to set up a business in Sydney as a housing contractor.