Papua-New Guinea
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Another Expert Visits Papua-New Guinea
1%/F Iss Jean Adamson, Pre:
school officer of the Australian Department of the Interior, is visit: ing Papua-New Guinea to help anc advise Play Centre Groups in tht Territory.
A Ministerial press handout say: that there is considerable interest in the pre-school movement in P-NG townships and that Mrs. D. Ml Cleland, wife of the Acting Admim istrator, is taking a leading part in stimulating local interest. Presumi haly these play-centres, etc., are foi European children, but this is no; clear from the report. It would be a waste of energy and money to pro* vide such centres for native infant; when the need for village schools i: so urgent.
No vessel sailing out of a NZ por provides such regular headlines a; the Island Territories’ Maui Pomar* —“Propeller damaged at Aitutaki”' “Doors stove in by heavy seas,” “De; laved 14 hours by missing greaser,* etc. Latest is “Delayed by engine trouble.” Maui was due to clear Auckland for Rarotonga on Novemi ber 6, but rain delayed her. Them when Captain Boulton rang for “astern” the only thing that wem astern was the handle of the bridge telegraph. Sailing postponed untii next day!
Mr, Tom Lashmar, Marine Mam ager for Thornycroft (Aust.) Pty..
Ltd., will leave Sydney early in Jam uary by the Malaita on a business tour of Melanesia to call on 010 friends and new. His itinerary wilil include Norfolk Is., New Hebrides (Vila and Santo), Solomon Is; (Tulagi, Honiara, Gizo), New Guim ea (Bougainville), and Papua (Pt,3 Moresby, Samarai).