The first!

rhe 20-year-old son of a tive storekeeper on a small 2nd off the south coast of ■pua will probably become pua-New Guinea’s first uni •sity student. ie is John Nautera and this ir he matriculated at Mt. rmel College, Charters Towers, rth Queensland. 7e gained an “A” in mathe itics 11, “B’s” in mathematics history and physics and ’s” in English and Latin.

Le is the Territory’s first tive student to matriculate, d one of a select few to gain aving Certificates, le is also the first native to :ome eligible for the Walter •ong Memorial Scholarship ich was set up over 10 years 3 by a former Chief Medical Hcer of Papua to enable rritory natives to attend Aus lian Universities. 3ut even if John doesn’t get » scholarship, the Department Territories will no doubt see it he attends University. (He nts to study Agricultural \ence at Sydney.)