[?]aria Syndicate Claim —

H. R. Wahlen and UNO

is worth noting that within a few days (on June 4, to be exact) Mr. Heinrich Rudolph Wahlen, of mburg, Germany—a notable man New Guinea in the two decades ore the outbreak of World War will be 82 years of age. n a note written in April to the [tor of the PIM, Mr. Wahlen says it he and other members of the ,ria Syndicate will not accept the ision of the Titles Commissioner Papua and New Guinea, that the ,ria Syndicate has no legal claim r certain concessions granted to in the Morobe District of New inea by the former Islands Gov ment.

Ir. Wahlen says that if no other rse is open, the Syndicate now . take the matter to the Inter ional Court at The Hague; and, his Court should not be compe t to deal with this matter, it will taken to UNO at Lake Success.

Mining Ordinance No. 19 of 1922 f be good enough in Russia,” tes Mr. Wahlen, “but it is not d enough for the Western Id.” Apparently, he argues that ;ain concessions given prior to 1 may not be over-ridden by the I Ordinance.

11 Mr. W. J. Ragg retired in April after 40 years’ service in Fiji as a telegraphist. After visiting Aus tralia to see his daughter, Mother

Ragg, of the Sacred Heart Con vent, Burradoo, he will go to the United Kingdom before returning to Fiji.