Rep. In P-NG
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Pacific Publications
Office In Lae
"PIM” Now Has Permanent Rep. In P-NG
OVER the years, the Papua and New Guinea business of Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd. has grown steadily, and it now has been de cided to open a permanent branch office in the Territory, and main tain there a full-time represent ative.
Lae has been chosen for this pur pose, and the office of Pacific Pub lications (New Guinea) Ltd. (now being formed and registered) will be established, as on March 1, in Theatre Block, Fourth Street, Lae, in the premises formerly occupied by Mr. George Whittaker.
Any business connected with the distribution of Pacific Islands Monthly, Pacific Islands Year Book, Handbook of Papua and New Guinea, Power Farming and Digest, and associated publications, and the advertisements therein, may be transacted there.
The Company’s representative in
Papua and New Guinea will be Mi Patricia Robertson, who leaves Sy< ney on the February Bulolo f Lae.
Miss Robertson is weir known Port Moresby, where she was for time in the Ad
ministration ser vice, and on the staff of Steam ship s Trading Co. Ltd. She also acted as a correspondent of the Sydney Sun, and in this capacity figured in a remarkable incident a few months ago.
She unwit-
tingly committed Miss Pat Robertson a technical offence by including in a pre message to the Sun certa information that had come to h knowledge through her work handling teletype communicatioi She was prosecuted by the Admi istration; and pleaded guili Although she is a woman of u blemished character and record, t. legal machinery that was broug into operation sentenced her to term of imprisonment; and s duly served a six weeks’ sentence the first white woman to be p into gaol in that black mai country. The great majority of P-1S residents expressed their sympat with Miss Robertson, and their r sentment of this official action, very clear terms.
Miss Robertson, stationed at Ls will act as PIM correspondent f Papua and New Guinea. Lae is t geographical and transportatii centre of P-NG: most of the Ter] tory developments are said to known there before they are ev discussed in Moresby; and ever one of importance visiting t Southwest Pacific passes throu Lae sooner or later.
A new edition of the Handbo of Papua and New Guinea is n< being prepared, and this revisi will be one of Miss Robertson’s fu tasks in the Territory. t Fifteen Cook Islanders, includi: eight children, .escaped from burning house in Parnell, Aucklar by the narrowest of margins la last month. They were unable force open a jammed door and h to go out through a window. O of the occupants, Mr. J. I. Wiliian suffered burns about the back a: arms while carrying the childr to safety, and was treated at Auc land Hospital. The other occupaT were Mr. and Mrs. P. Okirua a] their four children, Mrs. R. Tapu and her four children, Mr. and M T. Teo, and Miss M. Williams.