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Port Moresby, May 31.

REGARDED with cynical amusement by the P-NG Public Service higher-ups themselves, the to send 15 top-ranking Admin ion officers to do a month’s 5 at the School of Pacific Ad tration in Sydney appears to even less sense than most srra brainstorms, one—not even the candidates selves —knows what these 15 n are going to be taught; why are going; or who is respon- They have been told that are to prepare themselves to 1 a short course, late June te July, and as it is in the e of a free jaunt, most of them repared not to reason why. 1 member of the expedition Iready received a school cap, cally embroidered with the > SOPA across the front; the > are accepting congratulations friends philosophically. ie members of the school— as Mr. L. Dwyer, Director of ilture —are already on recrea eave; they will have an extra 1 added to leave, presumably, s, such as Mr. H. P. Seale, ct Commissioner, Eastern mds; Mr. R. R. Coles, District lissioner, Southern Highlands, Ir. Claude Champion, will fly from New Guinea. Mr. D. E. nis, Director of Lands, will I the course and then stay on ive. have been informed by another listration VIP (who happens i be going) that during their l at SOPA, the “students” will ;tured by Mr. H. H. Reeve, Treasurer (presumably on e). In order to do this, Mr. will leave Moresby by air on day; lecture at SOPA on the y; and leave for Port Moresby ight, again by air. have been assured on a stack lies that this is the truth — n still scarcely believe it. A ir letter from Mr. Reeve to gentlemen concerned would bout 5/-; return airfare from Sydney over £BO. They have him often enough, anyhow— ild it be that he is with g some dark secrets concern gh finance that can be im only from the safe distance iney? :■ .. i ~!• : ..

Elizabeth English, Samarai, arrived in Melbourne on n early June.