Norfolk Island Notes

December 2, 1952.

A public electricity supply for Norfolk has advanced nearer to the extent of some transmission poles which have been dumped at roadsides and the fact that Administration staff have been signing up potential consumers.

Most of ns are not expecting reticula tion until we have seen it. * ♦ ♦ Several residents made the round-trip in MALAITA and returned home con vinced that there is no place so good as Norfolk Island. They report that the old-time hospitality is missing from Papua and New Guinea and that the tropics are not what they were. * * * The retiring Administrator, Mr. Alex Wilson, has been farewelled at a picnic and at an evening function at Rawson Hall. * * ♦ Bounteous crops were reflected in the altar display at the Harvest Thanksgiving service in All Saints church yesterday.

The collection and sale of produce realised £llO which will go towards cost of a new roof for the church. Material alone cost £soo—the work Itself has been done by volunteer workers.

It is interesting to reflect that to help raise money for the church in 1920, a parishioner said that if the public were given permission and gathered the lemons growing wild on Crown land he would buy 100,000 of them at 10/- per thousand and give the money to church funds. (Ed. Note: Did the public fall for it?

They seem mighty cheap lemons, even for charity—something like per dozen—even 100,000 of then would have benefitted the church by onlv £50.)

The most successful military unit

in Malaya in November was the

Suffolk regiment, which skittled 12

terrorists. Next was the Fiji Bat

talion, with a bag of 7.