Madang, NG

Notes From Madang, NG

From Our Own Correspondent

Madang, Sep. 3.

WHEN being towed to Kar Kar Island, Sek, by the Joseph, a lighter broke its tow rope and, in tumultuous seas, drifted on to a reef off Kerosene (Beliau) Island.

In attempting to recover the vessel, the Joseph’s engine broke down and she was nearly dumped on the reef, too. Despite attempts at refloating, the lighter is still on the reef.

The Golf Club is raising funds, to complete three new holes. Sister E. Klernan organised a delightful “evening” and netted £125.

Sister Joyce Jones —once well known in Madang as Taffy—was here en route to Moresby from Kavieng. Somehow, in a rushed few hours, “Taffy” saw most of her friends and admirers. In Moresby she organises the child-welfare flinic, and is doing a grand job.

Yagaum Hospital in the Amele District has a busy time with the stork. Four Madang babies arrived :here in August—for Mr. and Mrs.

Robinson (of Colyer Watson), Mr. and Mrs. Doering, Mr. and Mrs. 3pehrs and Mr. and Mrs. Pensche (of Lutheran Mission).

Some dig for gold. Others go liamond-crazy. Hal Herriot un earths jeeps. While bulldozing on he golf course, he dug up the body md wheels of a jeep. They tell ne the golfers now are digging in ereference to helping the grass line.

Changes are noted for SDA Mis ion personnel. Pastor and Mrs.

Boehm return from Manus to take »ver from Pastor and Mrs. Ward Jolan. Pastor Nolan has been ap )ointed secretary of the Medical Mission Society for the Coral Sea.

Good work is being done by lygiene Inspector Tom Cunning on in draining the large swamp in he centre of Kalibobo Area. This eems to be assisting eradication of nosquitoes from the new residential rea thereabouts.

The small-ships wharf is now in se, after protests from the Advisory 'ouncil on the long delay by offi laldom in sanctioning its use.

At last Madang has a public hrary, under the direction of the

.ducation Department, and con

ucted by a staff of voluntary brarians. We all appreciate the jrvices of these citizens.

Surveyor Webb and party, from Be, have been in town surveying le hotel site and further residen al sites and industrial areas Miss Joan Wheeler, of Coconut roducts Ltd,, has transferred to -abaul, where she will be trained 1 the mechanics of the new ac :nmting machines to be used bv

ie Company.

Navy dentist, Ron Collins, at tached to the RAN establishment at Manus. New Guinea. recently married Miss Pat Lumley, of the Trobriands Group, Eastern Papua, who had been serving as an RAN nurse. They travelled specially to Losuia, in the Trobriands, to be married in the old thatched-roof home of the Lumley family on Kiri wina Island.

In 1896, the Rev. H. P. Schlencker left London for Papua, where he remained as a missionary, often among dangerous tribes, for 32 years.

On Sunday, August 19 last, in his 85th year, he preached a sermon in the Congregational Church, Woody Point (near Brisbane) where he now lives in retirement. He was trained for the ministry at Hackney Train ing College, London and was ordained in 1896.