Morobe
pp. 74-75 · Read in the full issue
A Brett Hilder Profile The Man From Morobe
Horrie Niall, Cbe,
MLC, has been in the Morobe District of New Guinea for the last 20 years, and has been Dis trict Commissioner there for the last 11 years.
HE was born at Coolah, NSW, in 1904, and graduated through Mudgee High School to the Sydney
University, He joined the 1 Guinea Administration as a Cad< 1927, being promoted to Patrol Oi in 1930 and marrying in the 5 year: his wife is Alison, daughte David K. Weir. He was promote ADO in 1935 and to District Oi in 1941.
He served as a major in AN( from 1942 to 1945, and was awa the MBE (Mil.) in 1944. At period in 1942 he was the onl] maining DO in New Guinea, stati at Wau, as the Japs held all the < districts, including the coastlin Lae and Salamaua.
Horrie has served in all the dis of New Guinea except Bougain and has been in the Morobe Di since 1940 with the exception o years 1946-49 when he was ir Sepik District.
He has been an official memb the P-NG Legislative Council its inception in 1951. Like all DC’s, he takes a pride in gard and in town-planning; his admin tion will be remembered with affc when he retires in three years’
Horne’s only vice is golf, an legal name is not Horde, as might believe, but Horace I Richard Niall.
The Niall’s daughter, Lois Frank Johnson) is a popular me of the New Guinea community, is at present in England, where Johnson is on a scholarship to Le University, but they except to be in the Territory some time in Ai
—Brett Milder.
[?] the han dicrafts made by women of the Radja Ampat lands are equal to most made in the eastern islands of the Pacific. [?]e islan ds form a groupst rewn above the north-western tip of
et he rlands New Guinea.
The women in theto p picture are making a bamboo screen used [?] wall drapin or for floor covering, and a mat which is used for [?]eeping. The shells in the basket are gathered around the islands [?] form part of a modest export. To see what the men of the lands can do, turn to pages 75 and 76.