50 Years in Papua
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Sisters Celebrate
SAMARAI residents turned out in force, on June 21, to help Mrs.
F. Corkin and Miss M. Inman (who are sisters) celebrate the 50th anniversary of their arrival in Papua.
The secretary of the local Citizens’ Association and the DC Mr. A. Timperley, congratulated them for their good work over
the years, and endorsed evervone’s wish that they should remain for ma i ly ,£ ears to come ' Mrs. Cor kin and Miss Inman were each pre sented with a cheque and a wallet.
The Misses Inman arrived in the Territory on board the old Malaita —predecessor of the present vessel of the same name—with their mother and sister, now Mrs. Russel, of Sydney, to join their late father (Captain Inman) and their only brother, in Samarai, on June 21, In 1914 they moved into the house which they still occupy in Hely Street. Miss Fanny Inman became Mrs. Corkin, in June, 1923 At the outbreak of war, the women were evacuated to Brisbane on the Neptuna and returned to Samarai in February, 1948.