Cairns

To See Queen At

29 P-NG Community Delegates

A DELEGATION of 19 Natives, 4

Asians and 6 people of mixed

race will fly to Cairns by

special charter this month to see the Queen when she visits that city on March 13. The delegation will leave Port Moresby on March 12. and return on the 14th.

The party will be in the charge of the Director of District Services Mr. A. A. Roberts, and Mr. R.

Brennan, of the Department of the Public Service Commissioner. The membership of the delegation is as

follows:

Native Delegates

Tovin Tobaining, New Britain.

President of the Vunamami Native Village Council, and an enthusiastic leader of his people.

Golpak, Of Gasmata, New Britain.

Me has an outstanding war record, hav ing been awarded the MBE and Loyal fnd Vl i C 1^ edal -. He ha » a *so given long f er vice to the Administration. first bee n appointed a Lulnai in GAlivnVl B W- ® f Buka Is,a nd, BOU GAINVILLE, Luluai of Lemankoa Vil a success ful businessman and trader. He has land under cultivation and employs a staff of 18 natives. He w^f kS wfc ffHsh WeH and can read and write. When the Pacific war started he was an apprentice printer with Mr. Gor don Thomas of the Rabaul Times and was sent back to Buka just before the Japanese occupied Rabaul. From Buka Gerard supplied valuable information to the Coast Watchers.

Raymon. Of New Ireland. Secre

tary of the New Ireland Native Societies’

Association, and thus represents 21 , .VC Co-operative groups in New Ireland. Raymon is well educated, and widely respected.

William Matpi, ©F Manus. He

workeil with an Administration surveyor until the occupation of Rabaul. Cap tured by the Japanese he was sent to Buna, where he escaped to the Waria * r .“L. nd then j° ined the PIB. Awarded UCM for outstanding military service.

GULU, of MADANG. Has 39 years’ un broken service as the Luluai of his people. During the War he rendered valuable assistance to the Coast Watch ers. As the leader of 10,000 people in the Amele area, he fostered the new industry of rice growing among them; some villages now own their own rice mill and are marketing rice.

Salum, Of Kar Kar Island. Para

mount Luluai of Kar Kar and has served with the Administration as a Luluai for 33 years. He gave so much assistance to Europeans during the war that he was listed for execution by the Japanese, but evaded them. He has his own coconut plantation (150 bags per month) and has shipped the first consignment of cocoa from his own groves, SILAS, of MOROBE. Served as a Na tive Medical Orderly from 1917 to 1941.

Kabua-Gario, Of Hanuabada. Inter

preter at the Supreme Court. Port Moresby, since about 1911.

Athanasius, Of Mekeo Area. Well

educated, speaks both English and

denirig

TOUA KAPENA of Poronorena (CEN

TRAL DISTRICT) Senior native

. , 1,1 Senior native clerk Is weli a edUicatPd of Education . fi nCC 1946 ‘ slbl. “osluons and bas beld respon - TIUCT A A lP retired f Se » retired Sergeant-Major of the g£ aI a disCh onStab ? ary - 1919 ' 1M6 - “^,« a dlst mguished record. 15 I^^ervlJf UBA ’ N t?° N M H? aS i n ad is years service as a Native Medical Or- He 1S ol lt ° f the most influe n tla l

Mahiir?? O M A Rr

catJd £ mi °- BAY EdU " £ a * ed at Rwato Mission and served as a snv vamiri , Mirvp

Na Mura, Of Milne Bay. Is

ptVil® e ™ p, °y e ® . (2d years) of Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd. at Samarai.

'V*™’ ° F Western Dis

7™i| CT ‘ Ha f: been , emp, °y ed by Adminis tration continuously for 21 years. He speaks, reads and writes English

Sergeant-Major Sevesifof Gulf

DISTRICT. Has splendid record of 36

’’ Wamp, V"Western Highlands.

Appointed a Tul Tul in 1940 and has been a * reat assistance to Ms people

Bepe Moho Of Fastfrv Hmn

LANDS An outstanding native of Goroka Sub-District.

Asian Delegates

W ° NG YOU of SOHANO, BOUGAIN VILLE Now aged fio ’ he has been a resi dent of New Guinea since 1912. and has built uo a thriving company from his original small trade store. Three of his six children are being educated in Aus tralia.

Chin Hoi Meen, Of Rabaul. Born

at Rabaul in 1917; prior to 1943 was in: charge of the Chinese Ambulance Corps.

Was captured by the Japanese, but at great personal risk supplied valuable information to the Allied Forces. For this and other services he was awarded the King’s Medal. He is a member of the New Britain Advisory Council, and one of the leaders of the Rabaul Chinese community.

TANG KAM HONG, of LAE. Leading member of the Chinese community at Lae, and a member of the Morobe Dis trict Advisory Council. Born in Madang in 1918.

AH WONG, of NEW IRELAND. A resi dent of New Guine'a for 34 years, and is the Chinese representative on the Ka vieng Town Advisory Council. He was interned by the Japanese, but in 1944 was contacted by an RAN unit and taken off the island. He then co-operated with the Allied Naval forces in operations throughout New Ireland waters.

Mixed Race Delegates

Patrick Bray, Of Port Moresby.

Aged 33 and well educated. Although very young, he trained as a wireless operator with ANGAU, and served for nearly three years. Employed by De partment of Works at Port Moresby..

Jack Martin, Of Port Moresby.

An active member of the social club at the Koki Catholic Mission and a very keten sportsman. Public Works techni cian.

Oscar Bond, Of Bougainville.

Well educated and is employed as a mechanic at Soraken Plantation.

Henry Lewerissa, Of Rabaul. A

leader of the Mixed Race community at Rabaul. Has been employed by Adminis tration since leaving school. In 1947 he gave valuable assistance to an RAAF search party in locating the bodies of Australian airmen who were killed in operations over Hollandia.

Kim Chan, Of New Ireland. A

member of the AIF, 1943-46, including service! with NGVR.

John Conboy, Of Morobe. Aged 30

—his father from the Caroline Islands, and his mother from Guam. He was a clerk and radio operator at Wewak, and had previously been stationed at Aitape, Angoram and Maprik. When the, Japan ese forces reached Sepik in 1943, he walked to Bena Bena (Eastern High lands) and was flown to Port Moresby.

He served with Army Intelligence field parties in Japanese-occupied country in the Sepik, and was awarded the BEM for outstanding service. Later, he was in military operations in Borneo, and trans ferred to an Australian Army Signal unit. He returned in 1946, and is oper ating a trade store.