ic duty in January.

[?]an With Itchy Feet . . .

DUG. ASKEW is an Islander True, having served in most of the islands between New Hebrides and Borneo, e was born at Douglas, in the Isle of Man, December, 1899. He served the last two rs of World War I in the Royal Flying is, and went to Australia in 1920. During next seven years he built up a rugged titution as a timberman in Victoria, then t to Vanikoro to cut out Kauri logs under litions which, after two years, persuaded to join the rest of the timbermen in a ie. They were returned to Sydney, bout this time Askew married Laura Whit , whose father was trader Frank Whitford, fhe Banks Group; her mother was related Queen Emma of New Guinea.

Fter a year in New Caledonia, where Doug cutting out Kauri, inland from the Bei Pirogue, they went to the Banks Group Tibby Hagen, Doug working on the sulphur sits on Vanua Lava. Four years later he loped blackwater fever and returned to ralia. In 1935, he went to the plantations iu'u, Bonani and Menaba on the coast of lita in the BSIP, for the Malayta Company, :h sold out to the Fairymead Sugar Com ' that owns Yandina in the Russells. hen war started in 1939 he was at Qantas Aascot; he was released to join the RAAF i Fitter II E., and found himself at Rich d in a bunk next to a lanky clerk named s Rafferty. tug was accepted for a commission in the ) Branch, and became an adjutant, irwin, Bathurst Island, Drysdale, then uinot Bay in New Britain followed, then a se at the Staff School, then a commando ;e, and finally, as an acting Squadron er, he was at the landing at Balikpapan orneo. ith peace he prepared to settle in Aus a, but after a few months with Qantas, vent to Papua for Steamships Trading Co. the lonely Conflict Group for a year, am there to the Vailala River, three years back to Sydney, but not for long. Back war plantation on the Mad?ng coast, NG, site Manam volcano, where he spent three ;, followed by a spell running a trade in the Maprik and Wewak area, ben this drawing was made he was in

-Brett Hilder.

[r. Maurice B. Baker, Cl Director Agriculture on long leave, r elled in the Waitemata to Auck i, Ranqitiki to Panama, and by on to Jamaica to visit his home i in Julv-August. He will re ic duty in January.