One of Lamington’s Quieter Moments

(Mt. Lamington crater one week after the disastrous eruption on January 21 which caused the death of 4,000 people. Smoke and steam are issuing from the main crater; the wisps of white in the middle foreground are also steam.

Photo by First-Officer Jock McKee of QEA.

former self—the Rabaul he knew when he was in Naval Intelligence at CA.

When the Japs arrived he made his way out as one of Police Inspector Ball’s party; the trip was quite a grim affair.

Then, after dodging death in many spots during the war, he died suddenly in Rabaul of pneumonia, leaving a wife and two small babies. The trees he planted in post-war Rabaul will be a fitting memorial to him.

A LADY recently despatched a suit case of personal linen from Moresby to Sydney by sea. Landing and Customs charges totalled £3 14/6, plus yards of red tape. It is about time some one got busy with a pair of shears and cut away some of the superfluous red tape which makes PNG practically a foreign country.

BITS and Pieces: Sir Raphael Cilento is back in Australia from his duties with UNO in the Middle East. . . .

A job for someone: Secretary-General W. D. Forsyth, of the SP Commission, wants to hand over the job before June 30. . . . Miss Pam Page, a daughter of the late Harold Page, Government Secre tary of the TNG before the war. made a hitch-hiking tour through New Zealand last year. Now she has announced her engagement to John William Boyd Stevenson, of Blenheim NZ. . . . James Ashcroft, previously of NG, died suddenly in Sydney last month. He was “ . . . .

F. H. J. Dahl, a travelling Commissioner for the Boy Scout Movement, has ideas of starting Scouting amongst the natives of NG. He says the Government approves the scheme.