Rabaul Soccer Premiership
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If Assistant Medical Practitioner Michael Ala, who has been at the Paton Memorial Hospital, Vila, New Hebrides, left Vila in mid-April for Saranabuga, Ndui Ndui, Aoba Island, to establish a new clinic there.
Tribute to Late C. D. Bates
AMOTION by Mr. S. Lonergan, seconded by Mr. Carl Jacobson, at the commencement of the May meeting of the Papuan and New Guinea Legislative Council, placed on record the meritorious services of the late Charles Dowson Bates, who had died in Sydney since the last meeting of the Legis lative Council. At the time of his death, Mr. Bates was District Com missioner, Madang.
Plantings of Australian seed pota toes met with encouraging success in Fiji last year, according to re ports reaching Australian growers.
Ninety per cent, germination was obtained, the most successful variety being Sequoia. Plantings in the previous year were not a success.
They were made late, and the wet season arrived too early. But the light crop was comparatively disease-free, and the variety Sebago also showed promise.
The Rabaul Rangers won the Premier ship in the Soccer Competition of 1954, and gained the Alois Akun Shield and the Nelson Robertson Cup. (Photo by Y.
C. Wong.)