Last Month This Young Woman Made Sydney News...

this is Mrs. Lila Matalau, of Matupit, near Rabaul, NG, whose smiling face became well known to Sydney newspaper readers when the called in both going to and coming from the South Pacific Conference as a member of the New Guinea delegation. The "blonde from Rabaul", the newspapers called her, with the usual amount of flapdoodle. (See Tolala's "Talk-Talk", this issue).

Anyhow Lila came up smiling, whether she was on top of the Town Hall being photo graphed with Sydney's Lord Mayor, or in a kindergarten watching young Australia smear paint on drawing paper.

Australian News and Information Bureau Photo.