New Guinea Engagement
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have done so for, though we dug six wells down to 12 feet, we found nothing but salt water.”
Another Lone Colony
A hundred years ago, to provide food and sport, the Norfolk Island community established a colony of rabbits on Phillip Island, then a green mound off the coast of Norfolk Island. The rabbits still are there, but how they live is a mystery. They have eaten away every vestige of verdure, and Phillip to-day is just an unsightly heap of rock, and red and yellow clay.
Mr. Ron Furlonger, electrical foreman, Dept, of Works, Rabaul, NG, and Miss Shirley Bowcock, of Sydney, who an nounced their engagement in December.
Mr Furlonger recently spent three months’ leave in Sydney.