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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1958Vol. XXVIII, No. 11

Place for Sons

p. 43 · Read in the full issue

P. Moresby's the Place for Sons

People who want sons might con sider shifting their quarters to Port Moresby if the trend noticed in the last three or four years con tinues.

The Acting Director of Health (Dr. R. F. R. Scragg) describes as fantastic the fact that for every 100 girl babies born in the town over that period there were 140 boys.

Only Port Moresby has the secret however; in other towns in the Ter ritory registration of boys and girls shows the race to be just neck-and-neck.