This Month This Man Made Sydney News...

The Major...wife wanted. —Daily Telegraph Photo.

SIX-FEET tall Major J. Sciortino, 38 and an ex-Dragoon Guardsman, was in Australia in late February looking for a wife to take back to his plantation on Lahir Island off the coast of New Ireland. At least that is what Sydney newspapers said that he said.

The Major had just completed a three months holiday in the UK, France and USA— but prospective wives shied off when they knew they would have to live in New Guinea, which they associated with cannibals. The Major hoped that Australian girls would be "more sensible".

The number of Sydney girls (photographs supplied) interested in the Major's proposition was said to number "scores". But perhaps he developed cold feet because he left for Adelaide before they could contact him and is now believed to be on his way back to Lahir.

It could even be that he was pulling the

reporters' legs.