Port Moresby Travellers
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Mr. John Johnstone, the South Pacific’s most famous diver, is at present located in Rabaul, Netw Guinea, where if the scrap market revives sufficiently, he expects to engage in salvage work among war time wrecks in the New Britain area. He became well-known as the leader of the group that
salvaged over £2,000,000 worth of gold bullion from the Niagara , which was sunk off the northern New Zealand coast in 1942. Within the last year, Mr. Johnstone, in association with a firm of English salvage experts, has removed an other 30 bars of gold from the Niagara. According to his calcula tions another five bars remain.
TOP LEFT. Mr. Len Morris returned lo Port Moresby, from leave early in May. TOP RIGHT —Friends said fare well to popular Mrs. Prue Frank, who departed from P. Moresby, on long leave.
Lower Right And Left.—Rev. D. E.
and Mrs. Ure, of the LMS, returned to Port Moresby from leave in Australia, in May. He was just in time for the May meeting of the Legislative Council, of which he is a Member. —Photos by Papuan Prints.