No "Talk-Talk"

This Month

There is no “Territories Talk-Talk” this month, as Gordon Thomas (“Tolala”) is ill.

On the rule that misfortunes seldom come singly, both Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas, of Campbelltown, NSW, were admitted to hospital for special treat ment at the end of August—Mrs.

Thomas to the Camden District Hospital, and Mr. Thomas to the Con cord Repatriation Hospital, where in September he underwent an operation.

Later, out of hospital, Mrs. Thomas fell and suffered a leg fracture; and she then was taken by ambulance to the Coast Hospital, in Sydney, where she underwent an operation on Sep tember 28. Both of the elderly patients now are reported to be “doing well”.

Gordon Thomas, as editor of “Rabaul Times”, was very well known in Neyv Guinea prior to World War 11. He was captured by the invading Japanese in January, 1942, and he was one of the handful who came out of that cruel experience alive—he was found in a New Britain valley camp after the Japs surrendered in September, 1945.