New Guinea in 189
pp. 154-155 · Read in the full issue
Astounding Changes in Man’s Lifetime
An interesting comparison tween New Guinea of 60 year and New Guinea of to-day made recently by Mr. J Mitchell, General Manage Messrs. Burns Philp & Co. Ltc Mitchell was acknowledging ? of a copy of the Handbook of and New Guinea, published i? tember. Before 1900, Papui called “British New Guinea what is now the Trust Territ New Guinea then was “Germa Guinea.”
THESE lists of business ] civilians and others (writ Mitchell) are rather astoi to me when I think back < first business visit to Britisl Guinea and German New C about 1896, in the SS Titus —o steamer to establish a st service from Australia to and German New Guinea ously serviced by our scb Myrtle and Ivanhoe, from town). At that time, a few would have been enough f residents of the respective tories.
Our exports then from New Guinea were principally £ wood and Birds of Paradise Port Moresby and West; and alluvial gold, pearls, vine and sundries from Samarai a Eastern end. There was nc in British New Guinea (now 1 at that time; but there was in the German Territory, ai was shipped to Germany in vessels chartered for the loa The anchorage in New Bri that time was Herbertshohe, site the RC Mission) and th cipal residents and traders w Forsayth Co. (“Queen Ei Rondahl, Mouton and Hernst Matupi (that was in what Rabaul Harbour) and also I P. G., at Duke of York Is.
Herbertshohe there was the ; son family.
In those days the list ol peans in British and Germs Guinea was so small that or almost everybody. Few of t sent generation know of th( ships, primitive life and troi the old hands, who have all on—l am about the only o: a memory of those earlier
64 Years’ Servici
Messrs. Burns, Philp & C was incorporated on April ‘ and Mr. Mitchell, then a lad the staff on March 17, 1891 now is in his 64th year of with the Company.
Islanders in
NZ Island visitors who were in Auckland, NZ, recently included: Miss Etta Crichton and Mrs. Nova Yandall on holiday from Western Samoa.
Mr. F. Rellesoe and baby daughter, Mrs.
R. B. Phillips and son, Mrs. P. Warden, and Mrs. L. Sasse and grand-child—all well-known in Western Samoa.