Moresby

New “Wales” Bank for Moresby

From Our Own Correspondent

Moresby, Jan. 24.

A cement-brick building will shortly be built here for the New South Wales bank at a cost of £21,000.

It will be located at the corner of Musgrave and Douglas Streets next to the rambling old iron shed now doing duty as the bank’s quarters.

The contract has gone to Horni brook Constructions Ltd.

New staff buildings for the bank are to be erected in Lawes Road.

In a Queensland Police Court on January 9, two German migrants who have been in Australia for eight months, were each sentenced to three months gaol for stealing an 18 ft. boat worth £l5O from the Ist Townsville Sea Scout Corps in order to sail to New Guinea to find work.

Mrs. Mollie Crookshank who has lived in New Guinea, Fiji, and the Solomons for the last 30 years, is now en route to England in the MV Himalaya. She is the widow of the late Commander Robert Crookshank. who died in Sydney a year ago. Mrs. Crookshank hopes to see the Coronation, and to tour Ireland, Scotland and the Con tinent.

Mr. P. J. Gill of New Zealand was recently appointed Officer in Charge, Magnetic Survey Branch, Apia Observatory, for two years.

Mr. and Mrs. Gill and child flew north early in January.

A brother, Mr. M. M. Gill, and his wife recently returned to New Zealand after a two year assign

ment at the Apia observatory as Geophysical Assistant and Clerk- Librarian respectively. They have now been appointed to the obser vatory at Christchurch, NZ, fol lowing furlough.

James Michener, American writer who won fame with South Pacific, was a visitor to Fiji in January.