No Regulations
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Galite, Fraternite, Etc.
No Regulations Needed
TNLIKE the Marine Dept, circular J (PIM, Dec., p. 123), there was no social advancement by igulation in Lae, New Guinea, in ecember when native schoolboys burning from Australia for the Dlidays were accommodated in the dministration mess with Euro ians.
Only a few of the Europeans had lelings about eating with the boys -most of them accepted the situa on without comment.
A total of 17 native students passed irough Lae in the school holidays, he two girls, Lenga and Fide, from le Finschhafen area, stayed at the utheran Mission in Lae while aiting transport home. Lenga at ;nds the Blackheath College, at ownsville, and Fide, St. Gabriels chool at Charters Towers.
The weakest link in the Australian ■overnment scheme of sending decked natives to school in Aus •alia (which few Territorians like uch) is the periodical return of the eungsters to their natural environ lent. It might be kinder all round they were removed entirely from leir native villages and during olidays were accommodated in oliday camps in the Territory.
Whichever way the experiment ; viewed, it seems inevitable that will result in unhappiness and ■ustration for many of these oungsters.
Whale oil, which yielded £Stg.B7 er ton, c.i.f., in the 1957 season is xpected to bring a somewhat lower rice in the coming season, but hale meat and other whale pro ucfs are expected to show a slight dvance.
Giblin-Garner Wedding
The wedding took place at the Methodist Church, Butt St., Suva, Fiji, in October, of Miss Lydia Aluma Giblin, to Mr. lan Samuel Garner, of Wanganui, New Zealand.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
V. W. Giblin, of Suva, Fiji, and is the descendant of John Beaumont Giblin, an early pioneer of Fiji.
The photograph shows (I. to r.): Miss N.
Williams, chief bridesmaid; Mr. K. W.
Giblin, best man; the bridegroom and bride; Miss P. Giblin, bridesmaid; Mr. J. Powell, groomsman; and Miss 0. Cricket, flower-girl.
Miss N. Williams and Mr. J. Powell are also members of an old Fiji family.