This Happened in Port Moresby 70 Years Ago

This photograph, and the one on page 82, have been loaned to us by Mr. A. P. Lyons, formerly a well-known resident of Papua. These photos were taken on an historic occasion—November 6, 1884, when Commodore Erskine raised the flag at Port Moresby and proclaimed what we

now know as Papua to be a British Protectorate, This was the ac tual flag-raising ceremony. The n atives in the f ore ground could be the great grandfathers of the Hanuabada natives—but the present Hanuabadans wear a lot more clothes.