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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1956Vol. XXVII, No. 5

[?]lies" in N. Guinea

p. 155 · Read in the full issue

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[?]Ld Appeal

)BABLY the best known re gions and social-service body i Australasia, the Salvation [ is now directing its atten ;o the Territory of Papua and [Juinea. ipwing a recent visit of Major ;e Carpenter and Colonel H. ey. Investigating Officers, tem f headquarters have been set [ Boroko, near Pt. Moresby, L under Major Keith Baker, pieut. lan Cutmore as assist appeal for £lO,OOO has been led in Australia to provide [ for the establishment of a pent base in Port Moresby ): Id and equip a transit hostel welfare centre for natives at bear Moresby, and a smaller I Lae, NG. pen a Red Shield Club near 1 wharf, NG, for seamen and cal natives. tganise a Mobile Medical Unit.

Dund a settlement outside 1 for indigent Chinese, lese and Euronesians. f range plans include the Bhment of a TB Sanatorium series of welfare compounds lildren and elderly natives.

It is hoped to extend the work ch New Guinea, ar Major J. B. Woodbury, of L who is in charge of the I will tour the main centres pua and New Guinea in y and February, larly known as the “Sallies,” lasi-military organisation is I of support in Papua and guinea, particularly among icemen, most of whom fondly the tea and amenities that on Army workers provided in every theatre of World War

[?]eg sheehan and Miss Ailsa Rumble

[?]ried at the Roman Catholic Church, [?]esby. on November 3.

Photo: Papuan Prints.