A Year At School In

Noumea

NEXT year some Australian school child between 15 and 17 will go to school in Noumea, New Caledonia.

At the same time, two French schoolchildren will be offered similar facilities in Australia. The exchange has been arranged between the

Federal Office of Education and the New Caledonian administration.

The Australian student will be chosen on the result of an examina tion in French composition. The French authorities will pay for the trip and provide for lodging, school books, equipment and medical attention.

After refit in Sydney, the Nether lands corvette Boeroe sailed for Dutch New Guinea on July 31.

Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Phillips, of Fiji, have announced the engage ment of their only daughter, Numai Mary, to Sergeant Robert Briggs Barrie, eldest son of the late Mr.

Robert Barrie and Mrs. Sarah Barrie, of Glasgow, Scotland.

Native Art

An exhibition of native art at the Re imber Village Council House, near Rabaul, NG. District Com missioner, J. K.

McCarthy, examines kundus (hand drums); death sticks and carved figure in background. See story on page 55.

Wedding

The bride cuts the cake—a photograph taken after the wedding in Rabaul of Miss Marguerite Doherty to Mr. Tony Bostock, of the Commonwealth Bank staff. —Photos by C. H.

Meen.