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isects in general and crickets in Eicular, interest young Dr. Richard fenport and his wife, Janice, he two scientists, now in New pea. are sponsored by the lonal Science Foundation in jjhington, DC. Primarily, their k lies in insect cytology, but dur their New Guinea trip crickets are iving their main attention.

Issue samples of new cricket des are sent to Melbourne Uni ity for classification and already IDavenports have a number of Is” to their credit.

Vo one has specialised in crickets L” Dr. Davenport said recently. [ spent half an hour at Nodup [caught six previously unclassified Imens.” he study of the cricket species [ lead to some interesting evolu- Bry discoveries. The Davenports sve the isolation of certain types jrarious islands will help unravel mystery of continental drift.

tr. D. E. Barnes, Senior Dental :er of the P-NG Department, has id an unusual solution to the »lem of keeping good teeth: Eat S fish, crocodiles, flying foxes, mas, possums and bananas. This diat the natives of Angoram, in Sepik District, do and they have best teeth in P-NG, he says. [hen Mr. Barnes, who has been Jucting a dental survey in P-NG

A. Jayant, wife of the manager of Air International, Fiji; Lady Maddocks, wife [?]i's Governor, Sir Kenneth Maddocks, and A. D. Dixit, wife of the manager of lank of Baroda, seen at a TEAL cocktail in Suva's Club Hotel. Photo: Stinsons.

« 1956, examined the teeth of 84 pie of Angoram, he found only Iperson had a bad tooth. The st teeth he examined were in the lern and Western Highlands, fr. Barnes said natives living in stal areas generally had good h, in sub-coastal areas, average h, and in the Highlands, bad h. It seemed that teeth were good jad according to what the people and also the amount of goodness he soil that food was grown in. the Highlands areas, the people mainly sweet potatoes. The food [boiled soft and the people had Ichance to eat fibrous or tough I.

wo readers in widely separated i of the world have answered appeal (P/M, July, p. 155) for scription of Papua’s old flag. One le Rev. R, E. S. Taylor, of Port quarie, New South Wales, who a Papuan flag in his possession, other is Mr. E. L. Mauseth, of sn, Minnesota, USA. r. Taylor describes the flag as aion Jack, in the centre of which circular badge. The badge is on bite background. It has a royal ro in the middle, surrounded by sprays of green laurel leaves tied le base with a bow of blue rib- Between the base of the crown the bow is the word “Papua” •lack. r. Taylor lived in Papua between and 1930, and was twice visited Sir Hubert and Leonard Murray t stationed at Dobu Island Mis “l have always been interested lags, and, in 1931, I took the ty of writing to Mr. Leonard ray, HE’s private secretary, ask if I might have a flag that had 5 service at the masthead of the ernment vessel Laurahada on His

here at the Rabaul annual police ball are Kathy Ann Dixon and Mr. Cyril. Holland, ger of the Rabaul Trading Company. The held in Xavier Hall, was an outstanding success.

cllency’s travels through the Ter ry. This request was graciously ded to.” fr. Alden tells us that the Papuan [is described in the National graphic Magazine for October, I He says the crown on the ie is gold, and that the inner cap Id and blue. k. Alden spent three years in the Be with the US Army Engineers, ping a year in New Guinea. [got to know many parts pretty that is why your magazine is Iterest to me. I got acquainted I quite a few Australians and corresponded with some ever

[Australian Minister for Terri , Mr. Hasluck, has announced jirement of Mr. Justice Bignold he Bench of the Supreme Court ma-New Guinea.

Justice Bignold, who was born nbilli, NSW, was educated at Jney Church of England Gram jchool and admitted to the in 1923. He was Crown Officer of Papua from 1928 to During World War II he with the RAAF. ards the end of 1945, he re to Port Moresby as acting Law Officer for the Provi fAdministration. In 1948 he

time off from more serious matters for game aboard the "Monterey" in Pago arbour was this group of delegates the Fifth South Pacific Conference, invited the whole conference aboard [?]kfast that day. Making his shot is Douglas-Scott, Australian Consul in Pieter Merkelijn, NNG Information Officer, stands by.

I made a judge of the Supreme irt of P-NG, and he served con busly on the Bench from then on. ★ ♦ ★ Ir. J. P. Minogue, QC, a Mel me barrister, who has been Dinted to replace Mr. Justice Hold on the P-NG Supreme Court ch, will leave for Port Moresby y in September.

Ir. Minogue was born at Seymour, toria, in 1909, and was educated >t. Kevin’s College and the Uni ity of Melbourne. He was ad ed to the Victorian Bar in 1939. b served in the Army from 1940 [was mentioned in Despatches, [attained the rank of lieutenant nel and was a General Staff er of the New Guinea Force during the Owen ley campaign. In 1945-46 he was :hed to the Australian Military lion at Washington.

iss Julie Booth, of Lord Howe d, has given a painting valued 00 guineas to the Poliomyelitis Physically Handicapped Society rdney. iss Booth, a deep-sea diving en ast, painted the picture under r at Lord Howe Island. The as took her three months to com * * * rgeant-Major Vouza, the most iguished Solomon Islander in Guadalcanal campaign, is still 1 strong at about 75, which is Dr a Solomon Islander. A friend \M, writing from Honiara, says 5 “still erect and with a clear (goes on: “Vouza’s wife, a splen ?oman, whom he always said he led for love, gave birth to both laughters during a long canoe One daughter is married and s a trainee midwife. His son, of

and Mrs. James Eliott, of Suva, after wedding at the Sacred Heart Cathedral recently.

manages his coconut plantation his gardens,” * * Hs itking his first visit to NZ since lendence, West Samoan Prime Bter Fiame Mataafa in August ■ed NZ Prime Minister Holyoake feamoa had no intentionn of ling a possible lucrative banana I with Japan to interfere with r the quanity or the quality of long-standing Samoan banana ;et in NZ. This matter has [causing some apprehension in NZ Government, (First trial aent of Samoan bananas for i went north from Apia on ist 13. Samoan Agricultural for B. E. Parham and Finance iter G. F. D. Betham flew to I later). In NZ the Samoan I Minister also expressed his [ concern” over America’s t nuclear test in the Pacific,

car tour of Australia’s inland lade by P-NG Assistant Admini Dr. John Gunther and Mrs. er, during a four months’ stay ptralia which ended in August, funther was recuperating from iteration which he underwent after arriving—and did it in energetic fashion by driving Queensland to Darwin, then [through The Centre to South ilia (including a visit to tera). In Alice Springs Dr. frs. Gunther exchanged gossip pid Rabaul-ite Father James h a former P-NG MLC, who days is parish priest at Alice s. Before returning to the )ry Dr. Gunther put his son on an aircraft to Ohio, USA, he is taking up an American ervice scholarship for the next I months.

lien (left) and Conrad Hurd, young [?] attached to the US Summer institute guistics, are now at Ukarumpa, NG, [?]g what could be their lives' work— [?]g dictionaries, grammars and general tion on native tongues. About 140 students are stationed throughout New Their job is to translate the New [?]nt into a number of native tongues, [?]anslate any one native language into stament, and to compile associated ties and grammars could take trom [?] 15 years or a lifetime", Jerry Allen said recently.