For P-NG

New Cadets Arrive For P-NG Native Affairs Dept.

rriHE first large group of new Cadet J. Patrol Officers to reach Papua- New Guinea for 12 months arrived in Port Moresby on March 3.

There are 30 young men aged around 20 in the group.

They have already completed a short orientation course at the School of Pacific Administration at Mosman and will do a Departmental induction course of about three to four weeks soon after arrival. They will then receive their postings.

Meanwhile, Assistant Director Toogood, of the Department of Native Affairs, has left for Aus tralia to interview other applicants for Patrol Officer Cadetships.

Mr. Toogood will be Chairman of a Selection Board which will sit in all States except Tasmania and Western Australia. Several applic ants from West Australia will go to Adelaide for their interviews.

Response to a recent Australia wide advertising campaign to recruit Cadet Patrol Officers has been “most encouraging.” r Mr. E. P. Hitchcock returned to New Ireland on the January Soochow.

t While Rarotonga experienced steady downpours during December, Penrhyn, in the Northern Cooks, was experiencing water-rationing, no rain having fallen for weeks. t Due to a poliomyelitis outbreak in Rarotonga in December, restric

tions were placed on travel within the Cook Is. t The Rarotonga electric pc supply, now operating at full will be expanded with the inc lation of additional equipment mid-1956.