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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1964Vol. 35, No. 10

Villages

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Cultists Return To Villages

FOHNSON cultists in some villages ' on the west coast of New Ireland ere beginning to return to their Dmes early in October after fleeing ito the jungle from a P-NG Ad dnistration patrol which was sent i the area on September 27 to re ore civil obedience and arrest atives who had attacked a tax allecting patrol in Lokono village ire days earlier. Twelve native alicemen in the tax-collecting patrol ere wounded in the Lokono attack.

Lokono was deserted when the jptember 27 patrol, comprising 40 ative police headed by Assistant istrict Officer W. Benham, arrived iere. The patrol found more than JO hidden weapons. Lokono was ill deserted when PIM went to ress.

HOWPIECE: The wife of Fiji's Governor, [?]ady Jakeway, pulled a muscle while laying croquet at Government House re [?]antly and had to cancel all her public [?]ngagements for more than a week. But [?]hen it came to the Suva Orchid and orticultural Society's flower show at the [?]swn Hall on September 5, she acquired wheel chair and went along to open it. [?]an Whippy took this picture while Lady [?]akeway was being shown round the [?]ow by Mr, A. E. Muir, a member of the society.