Death Of Mr. P G. Rogerson

THE death occurred in Brisbane on May 23 of Mr. Percy Gilbert Rogerson, formerly accountant of the Public Works Department in Port Moresby, and well-known and esteemed in the Terri tory. He had made plans to return to Papua, but died from a throat malady, rather unexpectedly. He marched with the veterans on Anzac Day.

Mr. Rogerson lived in Samarai about 1915, and was accountant for the well known Whitten Brothers, before he en tered the Government service. He suf fered ill-health as the result of World War I experiences. He married Miss Bes sie Wisdell, a daughter of one of the pioneers of Eastern Papua, and they had one son, Gilbert, now qualifying as an accountant. Another Rogerson, brother of deceased, was also well-known—he was ARM at Kulumadau for years, but now is retired, and a resident of Sydney. The Wisdell family were connected by mar riage with the well-known Ballantyne family, of Samarai, Well-known old Territorians were at the funeral—among them, Mr. C. T.

Wurth, former Lands Department; Mr.

George Christie, of Moresby; Mr. Les Drew, of STC, Moresby; Mr. Sydney H.

Chance, formerly RM in Papua; Mr. Fred Bunting, of Samarai; Mrs. Puxley, for merly a well-known Kerema planter; and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Munro.

A shipment of 60 tons of klinki pine, specially milled for battery separators, reached Brisbane from the Bulolo Valley, NG, on the May Bulolo. Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., and New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., are milling the timber. The New Guinea pine takes the place of Queens land hoop pine separators—hoop pine is now scarce—and similar timber imported from dollar areas.