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Mr. Peter Jaokett, of the well-known Islands firm, Ventura Trading Co. Pty., Ltd., of Sydney, will visit Papua-New Guinea in August. He will meet Com pany’s clients to discuss their supply prob lems. Mr. Jackett is not new to the Territory—he was assistant-purser on both Malaita and Macdhui for some time.

He hopes to visit Honiara and Vila on his way back to Sydney.

Mr. Sydney H. Chance, ex-RM of Papua, now living in retirement in Brisbane, is confined to his home for six weeks with a broken right leg, both the tibia and fibia being fractured. All this is the result of a simple fall down concrete steps while he was watering his vegetable garden. Mr. Chance, in a letter to the Editor, says he “must have brittle bones, for this is the fourth fracture I have had in Australia—just as well they did not happen up on the Mobi or up the Chirima or Kunimaipa.”