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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1958Vol. XXVIII, No. 6

E Was Gay Foli Xmas

p. 159 · Read in the full issue

Jual Junior

Lift

From Our Lae Correspondent

iNTAS Airways performed its

annual chore again this year and brought about 700 students c to New Guinea without losing hild —or a parent. [though school-children and versity students started to seep c to the Territory from Aus la in November, the airlift got ly into its stride in the early tcs of December and by Christmas the customers were home with . and Mum, Decial DC3 flights were made a North Queensland, and special master services were run from ney. i late January, the process will put into reverse and approx tely the same number of chil i go back to schools in Australia, espite the Sydney wharf hold-up >re Christmas, the shops in Lae good stocks of food, gifts and y now Territorians are wise in ways of Australian wharf and >ping hold-ups, having been left i and dry on previous istmases, and alert shoppers ■ted early this year, hips from the East were arriv in New Guinea in November and ember and the Chinese shops e full of novelties, ocal groups arranged charter hts out of Lae to other districts r the holidays and hotels every 3re were booked out. All Lae bs had Christmas Tree parties.

Time For

Youth

hristmas holidays a time for youth, this happy photo [?]h shows. New Cale ian secondary school lents flood off the raft that has just jght them to Sydney [?]tart a tour of NSW.

W schoolchildren [?] a similar visit to [?] Caledonia in De ber. Meanwhile, as story below shows, Guinea school- Idren, too. are ing a busy time.