Seen Chang
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Menyamya Friends
22 Years Have Seen Chang
NATIVES of the Menyamya s of New Guinea, on November gave Mr. J. K. McCarthy vastly different reception to the i he received at their hands w he last visted the district in 192 Twenty-two years ago, Mr.
Carthy (now Acting Directors Native Affairs) was welcomed W volley of arrows —two of which! him and subsequently put him of action —when he led the patrol into Menyamye.
Last week, during an official! spection tour of the Morobe Sepik districts, he was greeteo Menyamya as a long-lost frierr Mr. McCarthy said a few of: natives recognised him as the white man they had seen, but. denied that they were the ones had attacked the patrol he They were all many miles awa;j the time —or so they said, he ad: Mr. McCarthy said the only ference he noted in the natives i that now they carried steel ku and axes, bought at trade sti whereas formerly their wea;j were made of stone.
Nothing else had change Moresby Correspondent.