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,UICK “turn around”: After hav ; ing been delayed in Sydney for about a fortnight, owing to tour troubles in dock, the TuLagi •ived at Norfolk Island on No nber 6, and by night she was ie. A smooth sea and excellent •operation by the local lighterage i launch-men speeded up the un ding and work was carried on til 8 p.m., thanks to a full moon, e 12 hours or more saved by >wing the ship to get away over ht helped to get the Tulagi back Sydney—but, alas, further wharf üble has delayed her there.
Ht * * udge Simpson was at Norfolk md from Australia recently to end to a light calendar. )ne case on which he had to ad icate concerned a used motor car ught in by a new resident, who ected to paying the 10 per cent. ;y, claiming that the car could classified as personal belonging? pon which there is a £3OO exemp i from duty. ’he Judge thought otherwise, mother case which was thrown on a technicality without going the jury concerned charges of lesting children. The Crown went :he trouble and expense of bring-
ing over a defending counsel from Sydney but neglected to send over a prosecutor, and the only lawyer on the Island—the official Secretary to His Honour the Administrator declined the honour as not being part of his duties. The onus of presenting the case fell on the local police officer, at very short notice. * * * A local JP slapped a £5 fine on the skipper of a local ship recently fo r not declaring a stowaway on arrival here. The stowaway, wife of an acting member of the crew, joined her husband on the ship in Australia and left the ship here at dead of night and returned to her home on Norfolk Island—no charge was laid against her. r Mr. H. L. R. Niall returned to his post as District Commissioner at Lae, New Guinea, in December, after several months’ leave. With Mrs.
Niall, and Miss Niall, he travelled widely abroard, in Europe and North America; and arrived in Sydney from San Francisco late in No vember.
Mr. Peter Broman, Official Secretary to the P-NG Administrator, Brigadier Cleland is shown here with his charming wife and family, shortly before they were due to leave Port Moresby for leave in December.
Photo: Papuan Prints.