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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1956Vol. XXVI, No.9

The Visitation

p. 25 · Read in the full issue

[?]in NG

IE four-member-six-secretary

team that makes up the 1956

Trusteeship Territories

ting mission appears to be iting something less than a »le on the New Guinea pond. far, no pearls of wisdom have oeen reported dropping from the Mission’s lips (as was the case the first mission in 1951); no high jinks such as character the second mission whose visita occurred in 1953. te only untoward incident rred at Telefomin, in the Sepik dct bad-lands, where on the day re the party arrived, on April 4, trol had a brush with the local •iors and one of the warriors shot dead. This incident, it was ;d, was fully reported to the ion, but reaction of Mission was given. ie party—Sir John McPherson, Mr. Daniel Massonet, Belgium, J. Rolz Bennett, Guattemala; M. E. Chacko, India; and six itaries —arrived in Rabaul by aircraft on March 15 and will ; Port Moresby for Sydney on [ 18. Their schedule is a tight and their means of transporta reads thus: Aircraft, Road, I, Road, Catalina, DC3, Beaver, I, DC3, Norseman, River vessel, eman, Norseman, DC3, Road Btc. is programme should be ex ely educational —and certainly s no doubt in the mind of any who has endured the Road l-Catalina-River Vessel-Norse -Beaver sort of business, that four members and their six taries will be glad to reach ey, where civilisation extends ar as to provide hotels, and s-with-bath.