Fresh Bread for Madang

(Prom Our Own Correspondent)

Madang, Nov. 15.

For many years now the local Madang residents have had to put up with the inferior bread from Chinatown, or stale bread from Lae —unless, of course, they happened to be of the enterprising type who baked their own. Now we are blessed not only with a European bakery, which will bake cakes and pastries, as well as bread, but also with a van in which the bread will be de livered daily, to our own homes.

Cook Islands Medical Practioner John Numa made an inspection trip from Rarotonga to Palmerston and Puka Puka islands in October and found no cases of leprosy on either island on his return. About a dozen cases are detected each year among the 60,000 population of the fourteen islands of the Cook Group.

Mr. Peter Saunders left Kavien recently to spend Xmas in Sydney wit his mother Mrs. Frank Saunders and h sister Anne.

Tagged Swordfish

A year ago PIM reported that the Bay of Islands Swordfish and Mako Shark Club, of Russell, NZ, would tag a number of swordfish during the fishing season and release them to aid science in determining their migratory habits.

Six fish were so tagged last season and more will be tagged in the coming months. The Club has supplied these photos to show readers in the Islands

just what to look for if they land swordfish—as the fish are believed t[?] migrate to the tropics, or the Nort[?] Pacific. The tag says "Please retur[?] Box 55, Russell, NZ.” It goes witho[?] saying that what the Club really wan[?] returned is the tag, not the fish. (TH[?] tag, a round disc, can be seen on the fi[?] near the body at the right of the photo