For Drinking

Ng Women Sentenced

From Our Own Correspondent

Rabaul, Nov. 11

N passing sentence on three . native men and two native women in Rabaul District Court i November, the Magistrate, Mr.

Walter Shand, said that it was the rst time in his experience as a lagistrate that he had had to

sentence native women for drink ing intoxicating liquor.

The five natives had been drink ing in a taxi while travelling from Ramalmal Village to Rabaul.

Two of the men were sentenced to five months’ imprisonment; one to six months. One of the women got five months and the other, who had a small child, was fined £3.

;Mr. Ken Page is now settled down as the Pacific Islands travelling rep resentative of Palmolive and asso ciated lines, and is making regular visits to all the Territories. Mr.

K!en Page is a son of the late Mr. T.

E. Page, who was at one time well known in the Pacific as a member of the staff of W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd.