Brilliant NG Girl

Miss Robin Mullaly, daughter of M[?] and Mrs. D. S. Mullaly, of Rabaul, the gown which she wore recently at t[?] Graduation Ball, New England University College, Armidale, NSW. This New Guinna girl, only 20, has graduated as Bachel[?] of Science, and has been appointed to t[?] staff of the College. She gained "Dr[?] tinctions” during her first and seco[?] years, and specialised in Geography a[?] Geology.

ows a better one for itself. Arti ial names seldom stick.

From there, 1 would ask you, r. Editor, if you would be so good run a monthly ‘Paxlingfrank” ge, asking readers to submit >rds, phrases, and little anecdotes the new language with transla ns and explanations.

From these collections, in the urse of time, a fairly substantial ndardised word and phrase book jld be edited by those educational dies most interested. There would sd to be some pruning of re ndancies and vain repetitions in ; native phraseology, as spoken, cal spoken dialect will always re in, as in England, elsewhere.

Fhe next step would be for those erested bodies to publish a iodical coloured and illustrated ?er with the text in “PaxUng nk,” for natives who can read, e paper could be in part comic, e younger natives, as I saw m, in my time in the Islands, e a bit of clowning. For the t, the paper could contain very >rt illustrated stories—in colour

for preference—and something of

such matter as the educators de sired to teach.

At any rate, I feel sure that such a paper would awaken in more natives the desire to learn to read.

As with all things the first great essential to success can be stated in the words of Rembrandt in his advice to artists: You get some

brushes and paints and canvas and begin to paint.

Major R. Cook, from Korea, twice decorated for distinguished service in Middle East and New Guinea, has gone to Port Moresby to take charge of the work of re cruiting natives for the Pacific Islands regiment.