Border Murders

Dutch and Australians Affected

Hollandia, Nov. 27.

native policemen were murdered in October in Waris :he extensive area in Dutch New uinea close to the Australian-Dutch )rder). A Dutch patrol of 20 police as sent into Waris at once.

Father Raymond Quirk, of the Catholic mission station at Vanimo, P-NG, who regularly visits the Dutch area, told Dutch officials that about two months ago a P-NG patrol, led by an Australian police-officer, was ambushed near the border, on Aus tralian territory and two of the patrol were killed. However, the Australian patrol caught three of the rebel leaders, who were taken to Wewak. One escaped and fled over the border into the Waris area.

The patrols now chasing the murderers in the inaccessible coun try of the Waris area are being re gularly supplied by a Dakota aircraft, chartered by the Dutch Govern ment.

The captain and the crew of the last New Zealand National Airways to pass through Apia, W. Samoa, were the guests of honour at a fare well cocktail party given by the Samoan Government and by the Chamber of Commerce. The splen did pioneering service rendered for 5 years by the NAC was eulogised by several speakers at the pleasant functions.

The delivery crew of the 33-ft. Presby terian Mission launch Break of Day, after they had completed their voyage to Vila, New Hebrides, from Auckland, NZ. The crew (left to right): Messrs. Pope, Mark Anthony (Capt.) and Stewart Smith. —Photo by Fung Kuei.

Fifteen or 20 members of the Hawaiian Big Game Fishing Club plan to come south next April to challenge New Zealanders to a game fishing contest on their own ground.

The Hawaiian team will stay at the popular Otehei Lodge, operated by Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Hassal, formerly of Fiji.

Ginger Joe, a no-good trotter who’s been responsible for a lot of punters’ woe in NZ, was a deck pas senger on Tofua when that ship sailed for Fiji on November 20. Gin ger Joe was bound for Suva “where, in all probability he will be used as a hack,” according to an Auckland sports columnist.