And Where Do Ex-Territorians

Go? South Australia!

By “Sanasi”

South Australia is alive with ex-P-NG people, as I found after taking a recent holiday there. It’s most surprising. Among the old Territorians I met were:

The Rev. J. R. Andrew, formerly chairman of the Methodist Mission in Papua, at Kiriwina, Trobriand Group.

Mr. Alf Simpson, who was with Steamships Trading Co., Samarai, in the 30’s, now of the SA Mines Dept., Radium Hill. With him are his wife and two children —she was Miss Alice Campbell, of the well known Samarai family who owned Kuiaro slip. Her sisters, Mrs. Percy Walke and Mrs. Bunny Burrows still are at Samarai.

The Rev. Harold Short, late of the LMS at Hula, Papua, is living quietly in an Adelaide suburb. He is anxious to return to his coconut plantation at Paira Point, Rigo dis trict, where no doubt he’ll turn out more of those very readable little stories he specialises in.

A Pioneer Mr. W. P. A. Lapthorne, one of the founder-directors of Guinea Gold NL and Guinea Airways Ltd. in the pioneering days of Morobe district, NG, has just retired from active work with his Adelaide firm, Lapthorne and Company, machinery rn pvpVi onfe Dr. Joe Whitehouse, of Gladstone, SA, is a son of the late Dick White house, one-time missionary in the Trobriands. Dick’s widow lives in Adelaide; a daughter, Pat, is nurs ing.

Miss Hazel Donaghue, who was a nurse with the Methodist Mission in Eastern Papua, is now married and settled in one of the SA country districts.

Rev. V. H. Gough-Sherwin, pre war a well known Anglican missionary in both Territories, is now ministering at Murray Bridge, Dr. Gordon Heaslip, of Salamo, where he made a name for him self saving motherless Papuan children, is in Adelaide but is more interested these days in the tech nical side of soil improvement than in prescribing pills for people. This engrossment in the land stems no doubt from being a SA wheat farmer’s son.

Another Missionary

The Rev. Canon C. Chittleborough, who was at the Anglican station, Mukawa, north-east coast of Papua, is at Crafers, in the Adelaide hills.

His daughter, Jennifer, born in Papua, is now Mrs. Price of Renmark.

Other Anglican workers settled in SA include: Rev. Alan Dawe (Samarai) at a parish in the suburb of Prospect; Miss Williams, house keeper at the Deanery, Adelaide; and Miss Davitt, living in retirement in Adelaide.

The Rev. H. K. Bartlett (Misima) now is secretary of the Methodist Foreign Missions, at Epworth Build ing, Pirie Street, Adelaide.

Colonel Grimshaw, some time P-NG Commissioner of Police, is managing the Crown Hotel at Victor Harbour, a seaside resort 60 miles south of Adelaide.

Mr. G. F. McDonald, who served as a technical trades teacher at Salamo, Fergusson Island, Papua, now has charge of the recruiting section of the SA Education Dept.