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Hances For Historians

Papua’s Lonely Graves

A man who should have some in resting material for the new Papua id New Guinea Historical Society Mr. S. H. Chance, now of Bris ine, but formerly, and for many lars, in the Papuan Service. He ys he would like to know how to in the Society, and we suggest at he simply write to the secretary i Port Moresby.

Mr. Chance writes: “In my many years in both New uinea and Papua it was my hobby delve into old records, books and aps to try to find the origin of ace names. For instance, Murray oad, Daru, named for whom?

'here is the Clyde River? And ho was Bevan of Port Bevan?

“Tolala writes interestingly of nely graves. The Anglican Parson ho wrote ‘An outpost in Papua’ :11s of a burial ‘way down the Pen isula’ that juts into the sea to the ast of Cape Nelson Station (Tuf).

Tien I was there in 1922 the buried uropean had already been for- Dtten! The graves at Buna and ima could well be investigated; and len there is the burial place of an id Cairns prospector above the rira River Crossing on the way to Vhitten’s Fly’; I carved' the cross lyself.”

fl Mr. Ivan Champion, a prominent Departmental head of the Papua and New Guinea Administration, has been awarded the Lewis Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia, for “land ex ploration in Papua and New Guinea” —recognition of his achieve ments of about 25 years ago.

Well-known natives who were in eluded in the Territories delega meet Queen Elizabeth II

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I S rr^ er Simogun, BEM > °l Papua, “ a yj lond Gadabu, Head mel . oi Nauru; ana Austin Bermcke, a native medical prac titioner in Nauru, Mr. Raymond John Deland, BSc, eldest son of Dr. and Mrs, C. M.

Deland, now of Adelaide (formerly of New Guinea) has been awarded a Research Fellowship in Meteor ology at the University of Penn fylvama, USA where he will take

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scientific station on Macquarie Island, where he bad been official Meteorologist tor a year.