P-Ng Photographer
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Drowned
A well-known Papua-New Guinea cine photographer, Boris Ronald Cook, 25, was drowned in the Trobriand Islands, Papua, on February 21, while on a film making expedition for the P-NG Adminis tration.
Cook, a former Sydney Press photographer, went to Port Moresby in October, 1962, to join the De partment of Information and Ex tension Services, and shot several small films for them.
He was swimming with another European off Kaibola when both men were washed out by a huge wave. The other man managed to struggle to a reef.