P-NG Souvenir Book

LARGE book, exceedingly well-printed and bound, has been prepared under tructions from Sir Edward Hallstrom a memento and official record of the ,uguration of the Legislative Council Papua-New Guinea, which was opened Port Moresby on November 26, 1951. contains all the essential details of Is important step in the development the South Pacific’s biggest Territory, is illustrated by a large number of cellent photographs. rhis donation reminds us of what Aas ilia’s most famous philanthropist has ren Papua-New Guinea —namely, £40,000 r the establishment of the animal isbandry station at Nondugl, in the ghlands; £lO,OOO for the establishment a library at the Australian School of iclflc Administration, in Sydney; and veral smaller amounts. Sir Edward illstrom always has been an admirer the wartime and post-war Ad inistrator, Colonel J. K. Murray, and ds volume is mostly a tribute to his irvices. It contains a record of istorical value.

The Rev. Harold J. Short, of apua, retired last year after more lan 30 years of missionary work in le Islands, in the service of the Lon on Missionary Society. In an ad ress in Brisbane recently he des ribed the work of the missions, and

iow they had prepared the younger

•apuans to meet the impact of Wes

e.rn conditions.