Navy Visit To Madang

From -Our Own Correspondent

Madang. June 1.

NEW District Commissioner of Madang, New Guinea, Mr. lan Downs, made a spectacular success of the reception for the Administrator, Col. J. K. Murray, md the Commander and officers of HMAS Shoalhaven when they paid a recent call.

The oval was surrounded with flags of ill nations. A native choir sang the National Anthem on the Administrator’s irrival, and the Native Constabulary were nspected by the official party.

In the evening, a cocktail party was ield at Mr. and Mrs. Downs’ home to give ocal Europeans an opportunity to meet ;he visitors.

Afterwards a dance was held at Madang Social Club.

A RAAF medical officer was flown by lAAF Lincoln to Norfolk Island from Brisbane in early June to replace the sland’s only doctor who was suffering rom burns sustained in a fire which had lestroyed his home.

Mr. Don Reed, proprietor of the firm of William E. Reed, Islands agents and yachtbrokers, left Sydney by air for Papua and New Guinea on a business trip on June 9. From Port Moresby, he will go on to Samarai (Eastern Papua) by Qantas Catalina service and then, on his return, will visit Mambare district and Yule Island. His itinerary in New Guinea in cludes Lae, Wau, Bulolo, Wewak and Rabaul, from whence he will go down to Torokina (Bougainville) and Honiara

(BSI), reaching the latter in mid-July. If possible, he will return to Sydney via New Hebrides.

Employers are offering £l4 a week to competent stenographers in Port Moresby and still cannot get them. Even with the high cost of living, the girls should be able to make ends-meet on this salary— which is tax-free. Moresby bachelors contemplating matrimony when they come South on leave should see to it that their brides-to-be can type a little.