Go North, Young Lady

If You Want a Husband — Go North, Young Lady

ACCORDING to a recent visitor (male) to Papua-New Guinea and the Sydney Daily Telegraph, there are 30 woman-hungry Euro pean males in Papua-New Guinea to every single European female.

He advises anyone in Australia who wants a husband —and he says that it doesn’t matter much about her looks—to go north and get one.

“You can select a man up there within three weeks and marry him inside three months.” It is as easy as that.

He quotes a recent incident when a young woman from Civil Aviation Department was sent to Wewak for a few days. He alleges that all the males in the town met her plane on arrival and stayed at her heels all the time she was there.

Wewak was always ripe for a Lonely Hearts Club, anyhow. Be fores from that district will remem ber that time when a male resident was suddenly called upon to play host to his wife’s niece who unex pectedly arrived after his wife had gone South. Not only did every nale in the town attach himself to ier retinue but she was discussed in ;very mining and recruiting camp or a hundred miles around by )eople who had never seen her and lad small hopes.

However, there seems to be a lot nore dangers now in this paradise or spinsters than ever existed along >efore. These, for example, accord ng to the Telegraph correspondent: • You must never wear shorts >r swim where natives are about. fou must never show your midriff.

Midriffs excite natives—Yes?) • Beauty can fade quickly in the ropics, and there very few ically iretty women in the area. • Few women dare go out at light by themselves because of mo estation by natives. It is unwise o go outside even the back door fter dark. (One girl in Moresby ecently walked a dozen steps from be back door. Coming back a ative grabbed her. She managed to Teak away, rush inside, and lock ic door). • Even in locked window creened houses, many single girls ieep with a torch and loaded re olver beside their beds.

It seems to this writer that if lings are as he says, the revolver nder the pillow would be needed by ie be-sought spinster to fend off er quota of 30 woman-hungry

Europeans, rather than as a defence

against Brown Brother.

J. T.

A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.

Ted Harridge of Koranga, at the Wau Hospital, New Guinea, on September 11. Mrs. Harridge was a Sister at the local hospital before her marriage last year.

Mr. Thomas Lloyd of Norfolk Island, in Sydney, on September 20, was operated on for appendicitis. It was the morning of the day he had planned for his wedding. But that afternoon he was married just the same. A few close relatives attended the bedside wedding in the Mater Misericordiaoe Hospital. His bride was Miss Patricia Hensby of Sydney.