New Ireland Notes

Prom Our Own Correspondent.

KAVIENG, April 24.

Burns Philp's MV Malaita made her first call at Kavieng at Easter. A number of residents were entertained aboard.

MV’s Sinkiang and Shansi of the New Guinea -Australia Line have both called at Kavieng with general cargo. These two, with Malaita, are the first passenger vessels to call here since the war.

Anzao Day was celebrated in the traditional Kavieng fashion with com memorative services held in the morning and a fancy dress ball at the Kavieng Club at night. The snorts programme planned for the afternoon had to be abandoned owing to heavy rain.

Mr. Harry Cameron, of Djaul Plantation, has gone to Australia on leave.

Miss Elizabeth Kenward leaves Kavieng shortly for a trip to England and the Continent.

Mr. E. A. F. Stanfield, of Piera Plantation, is now very fit after holiday ing in Australia where he visited his old property at Stanthorpe. Queensland.

Mrs. H. Adams visited Kavieng recently.

She had been surveying her property and old home, Patlangat Plantation, on the west coast.

A severe earthquake was felt over the whole Island at 2.30 a.m. on April 24,

The shocks continued for more than a minute and brought most people from their beds. It was later estimated at Force 8.