'Charlie’ Bates

Making

Good Recovery

NEW GUINEA’S well known dis trict Commissioner, Mr. D. C.

Bates, underwent a severe lung operation in the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, in September, and is now convalescent. He rallied well from the operation, and is now living quietly, with Mrs. Bates and their two children at Avalon Beach, near Sydney, in a cottage made available to him by Mr. A. L.

Barnett (of Bagowan Plantation, Kar Kar Island, near Madang).

Mr. Bates is one of the most popular of New Guinea’s senior officials. After the war, in Rabaul the last three years—at Madang, he carried out a fine job of rehabilitation, and he and Mrs Bates, in both the administrative and social fields, earned the hearty goodwill of the whole non-official community.

Malolo,” the Avalon bungalow where Mr, and Mrs. Bates are stay ing, already has become a popular place of call for many of the ex- Perritorians who now reside in and

around Sydney.

Chinatown (top) in Kavieng, New Ireland, is little more than a collection of sub-standard hut ments some of native materials, some of salvaged scrap iron.

There are plans for a better Chinatown, after the style of the neat pre-war quarter. But the site has not been sur veyed as yet. Some pegs unearthed a few months ago indicate that the present road runs where the pre - war shops stood. The lower photos tell their own story: The old iron hut is Chinese Nationalist Party HQ as it is to-day; the other is the more palatial quarters it had be fore the blitz.

Kavieng’s Chinatown, Now and Then.