This Nun Rides
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a Motor-Scooter
THE mechanical age, coupled with the generosity of friends in the Warwick district of Queensland, have come to the aid of a Roman Catholic nun in Papua.
For the past two years Sister Marie Louise has pushed a bicycle 8 miles each day from her convent to the Mission school at Orokolo in the Gulf District, and 8 miles back again to the Convent after school.
In future, however, she’ll do the
16-mile round-trip on a motor scooter.
Sister Marie Louise is at present visiting her mother at Warwick.
When friends in the district heard of her daily bicycle ride, they got together and collected enough money to buy her a motor-scooter.
Sister Marie Louise will take de livery of the scooter before she re turns to Papua, and will also be taught how to- ride it.
Mr. D. A. Donald, who has been senior agricultural officer in Solomon Is. since 1948, was an inmate of St.
Vincents Hospital, Sydney, in Jan uary. He had undergone an opera tion but was doing well.