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Papua
Proxn Our Own Correspondent P. MORESBY, March 1.
MR. R. C. DOLBEY (of London and Borneo) and Mr. W. H.
Doughty (of Borneo) have again visited Papua to check on the progress of the new mangrove-bark
factory being erected near Kikori, Mr. Dolbey is the managing-director of the New Guinea-Borneo Man grove Co., Ltd., and Mr, W. H.
Doughty is the chief engineer and a director of the firm. Both are likewise executives of the parent company in Borneo which has been supplying the world markets with cutch for many years. Cutch is a mangrove bark extract used in tan
ning leather and as a dye and pre servative for sailcloth. Those “rec Bails in the sunset” get their coloui from cutch.
Mr. Dolbey expects that the Kikori factory will be in productior by the end of this year. Five Euro pean homes for the staff have beer completed. These are really up-to date dwellings, complete with elec tricity and “all mod. cons.” in the shape of running water and sewer age. A new manager is now in charge of the Kikori undertaking— Mr. Cecil R. Fisher, formerly on the staff of the London Missionary Society in Kikori district. He re places Mr, C. B. Cook, who resigned from the company.
The Rev. Trevor Shepherd, of the Methodist Mission, has been trans ferred to Vella Lavella, BSI, from Teop, Bougainville. The Rev. G. G.
Carter goes to Teop from Buin. The Rev. D. I. A. McDonald, with Mrs.
McDonald an d two young sons, goes to Choiseul (his first Islands appointment) replacing Rev. J. R.
Metcalfe, who has been transferred to Mission Headquarters at Roviana, New Georgia.
Dr. G. E. Hoult, who had served for three years as medical and dental officer of the Methodist Mission in the Solomons, obtained his diploma of tropical medicine at Sydney University while on leave in 1952.