Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1959Vol. XXX, No. 3

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Fits . . .

zt Merkelijn, director of t education extension in xrlands New Guinea, flew San Francisco for confer s with officials to determine TNG should participate in year’s Pacific Festival e. He brought a native l-dress from the Baliem ey, the Shangri-La Valley Vorld War 11, as a gift for or George Christopher. It a cus-cus fur affair, orna ted by white cockatoo hers and lorikeet plumage. »spapermen photographed it i re the formal presentation, the photo appeared in the Francisco “News-Call letin” with this caption: 1 Fiji Bandsman’s Hat”.

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