Wau Advisory Council

at Work

From Our Own Correspondent WAU, Dec. 24. li/fATTERS of local interest were ltT discussed at the December meeting of the Wau-Bulolo Advisory Council, and the nine nembers present again urged itrongly that the proposed Secondary School at Wau be istablished without further delay.

Considerable dissatisfaction was ixpressed at the continued un availability of the district’s X-Ray ilant. It was decided to send a etter to the Government Secretary n Port Moresby on this subject. ?he meeting decided that it was lot satisfied with the explanation egarding the plant supplied by the Mstrict Commissioner, Lae.

The meeting has asked the )istrict Commissioner to provide acilities for mail, reaching Lae on be Sunday Skymaster from Aus ralia, to be sent through to Wau n the same day. They will also sk for a barge service across the Earkham at Labu, on Sundays.

WAU, January 24.

By the time of the January meet ig of Wau TAG, over a month iter, some satisfaction had been lined with regard to the provision : a Sunday barge over the Mark am River at Labu (at a cost of 1 for two services), but little pro cess had been made with regard i other matters.

There was still a deep official lence over the District X-ray ant, through-delivery of mail

arriving at Lae on Sunday, and a TAG recommendation concerning the Wau Common.

The Council expressed dissatis faction at the delay in building a

new hospital, presumably through lack of funds, and the temporary closing of the Wau airstrip without notification from the Civil Aviation Dept.

photograph taken after the wedding Miss Mary Theresa Ah Wong (one of Papuan girls who received her nurs certificate some months ago) to Mr [?]n Martin at Koki Catholic Mission, [?]t Moresby, on January 31.

Photo by Papuan Prints.

Fiji Guides

In Nz

Girl Guide Rangers from all points in and bordering the Pacific converged on Marton, NZ, in December - January, when 300 teen-age girls got together in the first meeting of its kind.

The Pacific was represented by girls from Fiji, the Cook Islands, and one from Hawaii.

This is the party from Fiji (left to right): F. Meresiana, Rita Ah Ben, E.

Kuarpatti, O. Peter sen, A. Williams (Captain), W. Cockle, H. Sahu Kahn, L.

Smith, M. Salayan. (A. Gibson was ill when the photo was taken).

Inset is Yuriko Kohara, representing Hawaii.