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The Rev. and Mrs. G. Bergmann of the Lutheran Mission at Boana,

near Lae, New Guinea, with their three youngest children, reached Sydney in the Nellore at the end of September. They will be joined there by their five other chil dren and the whole family will go on to Germany for 12 months leave.

None of the Bergmanns has been in Germany for 23 years.

After a year’s quarantine, about 80 varieties of sugar cane brought back from New Guinea by the ex pedition of the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations was planted ex perimentally at the Mackay, Queens land experiment station in Septem ber.

Mr. Dick Greaterix and Mr. Peter Huret returned to Wau, NG, on the September Bulolo after leave abroad. Before settling in Wau several years ago, and making a beautiful garden and home there, they had lived in Tahiti and Dunk Island.