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A Link With The German Days

Mrs. Eileen Emery, Of

and Wau, New Guinea, is sry live link with the old Ger

ii days in the Territory. She

born at Kavieng, New Ire -11, in 1912, of German snts.

SR father was Carl Leopold Bruno Wilde, who was born in Prussia about 1876. After travel through Persia. Victoria and lensland, he reached Rabaul in and married Juanita Stehr, was living with her parents at Duke of Yorks, though she had a born in Samoa, oon after Eileen was born the de’s went to Emira (Squally ind) and started a plantation. ;en Australia took over in 1914, Wilde’s were allowed to keep r plantation because it was in wife’s name and she held ;ish nationality from Samoa. ;en Mrs. Wilde died she was led on Emira (or Emirau). ii 1927, the property was sold to R. Carpenter’s and Carl went

t 0 the Morobe goldfields to make his fortune. He discovered the “El Dorado” mine, and his work is de scribed in Gold Dust and Ashes.

Until this time Eileen had been at school at Woolwich Convent in gy dne y; she was now sent on a two-year visit to Germany and Europe. On her return to Sydney, about 1930, she married at the age of 18; a daughter from this first marriage is now Mrs. North Jackhn, of Mackay, Queensland.

Then followed ten years of ad venture in marriage and in travel, ending in a Japanese war-time prison camp.

After the war Eileen married John Ransome Emery, of Lae, who had mid

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Michael, 5, both at school in Aus tralia. The Emerys are the owners of the Blue Mountain Coffee estate a t Wau, where the Government first experimented in coffee-growing in 19^B - Eileen and her sister (Mrs. Chet.

Mayfield) have opened a shop at

Lae, called the “Salad Bowl”, where they sell fresh vegetables from the property at Wau, and continental

delicacies.-

Brett Hilder.