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Torians Are Married
rWO pioneer New Guinea families were united in Madang in June, hen this well-known couple were larried—Mrs. Anna Johanna Mun er, widow of the late Charles
inster, of Manus, and Mr. Tom yliss, Bulolo goldminer.
Fhe Munsters were married 30 irs ago, and established some valu
able coconut plantations in Manus.
Mrs. Munster, and their three children, got away South in Decem ber, 1941; but Mr. Munster was caught by the Japs when he sailed his schooner into Rabaul a little later. He was put onto a Jap ship along with various planters, and mission personnel (including women) from Madang, Kavieng and Manus; and then, on the high seas, the whole of the prisoners on that ship were ruthlessly murdered—one of the Jap’s most brutal New Guinea massacres, of which very little has been heard.
Tom Bayliss was in New Guinea in 1922, and he joined the Edie Creek gold rush in 1926. Eventu ally, he settled on some valuable country on the Bulolo, between the BGD leases, and—except for the war—he has been sluicing gold out of that area ever since. His claim now has been taken over by his son Colin, who was a fighter pilot in Europe in the war, but who now has settled down in the Bulolo Valley with a charming wife and two children.
The new Mrs. Bayliss also is" a grand-parent. Her daughter Carola (who in Madang married Mr. Kenny, of Mandated Airlines—he is now managing the Munster properties in
Manus) is the mother of two children.
Hundreds of old Territorians will wish many years of happiness to the popular bride and bridegroom.
Mr. Pat Costello returned to Fiji in December, after 6 weeks in Aus tralia.
Cook’s Telescope for NZ
THE New Zealand Government has purchased a telescope which Captain James Cook, had with him aboard H.M.S. Endeavour on his first visit to New Zealand.
The telescope is not a marine tele
scope, being about three feet long and six inches in diameter and mounted on a folding wooden tripod about five feet high. Whether or not it is the famous instrument used at Point Venus, Tahiti for the observa tion of the transit of Venus, is not known at present.
The telescope was given by Cook fi Sir Joseph Banks, naturalist aboar< the Endeavour, as a souvenir of hi voyage. In 1926 it was purchased a auction by Miss Edfth Kinch o Cornwall. She had recently been ap preached by an American collecto to sell the instrument, but offered i to the New Zealand Governmen which has paid £l5O for it.