Complete Recovery

Chief Justice Makes Complete Recovery

p he Chief Justice of Papua-New Inea, Sir Alan Mann, will return the Territory in December after sral months’ sick leave in Aus ia. He claims to be in better Ith than he has known for years— ' his appearance bears it out. In ney in November, where he at ied the first seminar of the Council New Guinea Affairs, he looked larkably fit.

July, Sir Alan suffered a series of mishaps that gave rise to in :ect reports of very grave illness, these in turn caused distress mg his relations and friends. His jss was due to an accident which suffered while on circuit in the them Highlands. le hit his head on the door of a id-Rover while getting into it and veek later, at Mendi, when the ident was forgotten, he developed ming symptoms suggesting head serve trouble, and was rushed out air to Port Moresby, and thence Brisbane for specialist treatment, here were rumours that Sir Alan suffered a stroke, or a cerebral morrhage, and that further resi ce in the tropics was unlikely, ictually, the specialists in Brisbane ;nosed subdural haematoma—a isive blood clot building up isure within the skull, but outside brain area. A leading neuro jeon removed the clot, and the ef Justice recovered quickly. He i was ordered away for a long

There is little doubt that the blow on the head suffered by Sir Alan, while in a run-down condition, caused the blood clot and his subsequent collapse.

On his return to P-NG he hopes to carry out plans for extending the work of the P-NG Museum in Port Moresby, of which he is president of the trustees. He has already had dis cussions with world leaders in the museum field and hopes that plans can be announced soon for establish ing the museum and related institu tions for research on a much larger scale.

The museum has recently obtained the services of a first-class preparator.

[?]EW RABAUL TERMINAL: This new £35,000 passenger terminal at Rabaul airport, [?]uilt to international standards, was officially opened in November. The shed in [?]he lefthand corner has been used as the terminal building for the last 11 years, and a decade of passengers will be happy to see the last of it.