Training Radio Operators in P-NG

The native lads in this photograph will, this year, be attending a school in Port Moresby [?]e trained as native radio operators. They are all from Baluan, in the Manus district and are shown receiving their basic training at Lorengau. It has not been possible in the post-war [?]d to obtain sufficient European radio operators to fill all the requirements of Papua and Guinea radio communication; it is hoped that trained natives will be able to ease the [?]ion Already native operators who were trained before the war by Amalgamated wireless [?]als are efficiently carrying on their work in regional stations in the Territory —Photos by C. J. Fonceca.