Lae's Very Important Occasions

All Came at Once

Wedneday, June 4, was really quite a day for Lae, New Guinea.

On that occasion the town got seven new Australian citizens, a new brewery and a new newspaper.

The citizens were Chinese residents who took new nationality at a ceremony presided over by Territories Minister Hasluck. (See page 133).

The new brewery was Guinea Brewery Limited, which Mr.

Hasluck officially opened (page 133); and the new newspaper is The New Guinea Courier, the new weekly edited by Mr. Colin Thwaites from his office in Lae but printed in Port Moresby. With the Courier P-NG now has four newspapers every week—the South Pacific Post puohshes twice a week now and the Rabaul Times once.

All are owned by the same group of companies. (See page 137;.