Red Cross Bosses
p. 76 · Read in the full issue
Kavieng Suffers Under
From Judy Tudor
KAVIENG, April 4. J THERE are rules and regulations! even about charity these days.J’
As reported in the March PIM, Kavieng (New Ireland) branch of the Red Cross Society, smartly do nated £lOO for the relief of victims! after the flood disaster hit England! and Holland.
But it is not as easy as that* the cheque was as smartly returned! from Australian KQ, with a terse letter to the effect that all dona-t tions should be made through Port Moresby; and that, as Australian!
Red Cross was making the princely! donation of £l,OOO to the samel cause, Papua-New Guinea, of which Kavieng is part, would be afforded opportunity to contribute in due course.
Elsewhere, and in roundabout fashion, it was intimated that as Kavieng was so well endowed, it could perhaps pay for the expensive! radio equipment that had been sent along irom Moresby—though not asked for —about a year previously! for the local European hospital.
The set, which consists of a re! ceiver and separate headphones and; cost over £2OO, has been idle since! it was received because no tech! nician with the knowledge or the; time necessary to install it has been forthcoming. Kavieng would; have been happy to settle for a £2O broadcast receiver for its hospital!
News In The Islands
Reception of 9PA Moresby is bad in the evening in New Ireland and in New Britain, when it is talkea off the air by an Asiatic statioi!
Reception in the morning is fair! although there is the almost uni| versal complaint that the statiodj caters only for Moresby interests.!
What unfortunate news editors consider a well-balanced cover of events in their order of importance will never please the individual listener or reader. In Fiji, Samoa,* etc. representatives of PIM are: always told that all the news in the Monthly is about Papua-New Guinea. In New Guinea the com! plaint is that there is “nothin* about New Guinea —it’s all about Fiji or Tahiti or somewhere oven there.” Theoretically there is sup! posed to be a great community of interest between all portions of thes South Pacific: in practice the dinl ner party given by the Bill Brown! of Kavieng or Madang is much! more interesting to Kavieng or Madang than the biggest tidal! wave or bloodiest revolution in somel part of (to them) remote Polynesia!
The Suva-Levuka very-h ig h frequency radio telephone servica came into operation in April,