Mt. Lamington Fund
p. 43 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, March 10.
THE Mt. Lamington Disaster Relief Fund is receiving strong support from all sections of the Territory’s population, and it is noted that native communities are contributing generously in many cases.
As well as the steady flow of European contributions, Chinese and Malay resi dents are sending in valuable sums to the Appeal. By March 9 the Fund had reached a total of nearly £B,OOO, and with many social and sporting functions scheduled for the next few weeks to assist the Appeal, the total will be much greater before the Fund finally closes.
When the BP ship Morinda reached Sydney from the New Hebrides in early March, Customs officials found £l,OOO - of goods—cigarettes, tobacco, dress material, household linen, torches and
liquor—hidden in a disused donkey boiler.
They did not find who put it there.