Moresby

News Briefs From

Port Moresby, June 1.

A FTER much persuasion from the Town Advisory Council, the Government Secretary’s department t last succeeded in getting Works nd Housing to provide a couple of notices” at the European bathing rea on Ela Beach. These quite learly prohibit dogs from the area, ill that is now required is some ody to police the regulation, and a og pound. Meanwhile, no doubt, ogs will continue to frolic as usual.

Works and Housing has been given jfficient funds to complete the new diarf, storage sheds and other jobs i the waterfront project. The total ow made available is £420,000.

Mr. Justice R. T. Gore on May 26 mtenced a European to eight years’ ard labour for indecently dealing nth a European girl under 14. He r as a 29-years-old clerk employed y D.C.A. He was originally charged nth rape and found not guilty by a iry of four. It was only the second ial by jury in the Territory since

the war. The first was a murder hearing at Samarai in 1948.

The young Territory division of the Red Cross has completed the distri bution of valuable radio equipment to hospitals throughout Papua and New Guinea. The sets are equipped with earphones, and enable every patient to listen to a radio pro gramme without disturbing others.

Well-known territorian Mr. lan McDonald has been elected president of the Moresby branch of the R.S.L.