Nears End Of Its Life

Moresby’S First Tag

From Our Own Correspondent

Port Moresby, Feb. 3.

If the Acting Administrator, Mr. eland, accepts the recommenda ms submitted by the Port Mores- Town Advisory Council, the new »uncil, to be appointed shortly, 11 have 16 members—two members r each of three wards and the lance made up of five general jmbers, and five from the Public rvice. The Acting Administrator d asked for the Council’s advice these matters.

When the details of the new uncil are decided, Mr. Cleland [1 then terminate the present ap- Lntments, and appoint new mem rs. This will end three years’ ser e for the present body, the first wn Advisory Council to be set up the Territory. Some of the orig il members have left Moresby, puties have appeared for others, d a trusty few of the original nd are still carrying on. They ve done a very good job indeed— ich better than some of their tics hoped. One night a month perhaps not a great deal out of J’s spare time, but Council mem

bership, in some cases, has involved a lot of work between meetings. The Council has provided a means of public expression totally lacking be fore this body was created and if the general public has not utilized this opportunity as often as might have been expected, that is the fault of the citizens and not the Council.

A book about 21 years of mission work in Papua, written by Father Andre Dupeyrat, formerly of the Yule Island Mission, has become a best-seller in France, and is to be produced soon in English. The energetic Father made many friends in Sydney and Melbourne a few years ago, when he was there raising funds for his Mission.