News From Morobe
pp. 79-80 · Read in the full issue
Goldfields
Prom Our Own Correspondent WAU, November 20.
I SON was born to Mr. and Mrs. i Terry O’Sullivan on October 28. at Wau Hospital.
Mr. Tom Upson of Manus, with [rs. Upson, recently arrived in Wau > take over Police duties in this ►istrict. Mr. Max Corliss has now eparted for Port Mioresby.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hawley, with aby son John, )of (New Guinea roldfields Ltd., have departed for iree months’ leave, to be spent in ewcastle, NSW.
Mrs. Vemie Thomas, popular lanageress of the Wau Club, has ow left for Rabaul, where she was ell-known before the war.
The finals of the Associates’ Golf hampionship were played this eek with Mrs. I. Crawford winning :om Mrs. H, Seale with one up.
Irs. Crawford also won this ronth’s Medal.
Mrs. Jensen, a dairy farmer from therton, North Queensland, is mimencing dairying in Wau. Mrs. ensen purchased six Jersey cows :om the Agriculture Department jcently, and will bring a DC3 plane •ad of Illawarra Shorthorns direct *om Atherton to Wau early in De smber —a unique airlift even for lis country.
Mrs. Doris Booth, CBE, of Cliff de, is back with us again after a jw months in Brisbane. Mrs. both has been nominated to the egislative Council, and Authority • to be congratulated on choosing jmebody like Mrs. Booth who nows this Territory, especially this Oldfield area.
Mrs. Booth has received con ciliations from near and far on er nomination.
An interesting and entertaining fternoon for the children of Wau r as held here recently when the bildren of the Luther Mission bhool (Katharine Lamond) and ie Wau School children competed i a sports afternoon at the Oval.
The children enjoyed themselves d such an extent that parents r onder why similar afternoons can ot be a monthly event next year.
Mrs. Norman White, Snr.. of Wau, as returned from several months pent at Beauty Point, NSW.
'The Wau Swimming Pool is corn iced at last—lack of cement held i up for some time.
Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday were observed in Vila, New Hebrides by services at the Paton Memorial Church and Mass in the Roman Catholic Church followed by ceremonies at the Cenotaph. On the previous night, a successful Ball was held in the recently completed Cine Pacifique.
Dr. G. E. Hoult, a New Zealand doctor and dentist who went to 8.5.1. three years ago as Medical Superintendent of the Methodist Mission, has offered to continue for a further period. He will take a '’Otfrse in tropical medicine and hygiene in Australia during his next furlough.