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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1955Vol. XXV, No. 9

"When it's Springtime in New Guinea

p. 64 · Read in the full issue

New Guinea . .

There’s a valley that is hidden, That has been seen by none, Though said to be discovered In 1891.

And later viewed from sideways, In 1923, When seen round the corner By John McMurkitry.

In the valley that is hidden They don’t wear any clothes.

The girls are rather nifty And the men—they don’t propose.

The atom bomb’s unknown there — All other bombs unbid.

If they have any sense there, They’ll go on being hid.

Noelle Mason.