People In Pictures

Pictures

IN THE HIGHLANDS: Brigadier S. M. Mc- Donald, a senior officer in Australia's Citizen Military Forces, recently spent two weeks in Papua-New Guinea visiting Army units to familiarise himself with techniques in training and operating in a tropical environment. He attended a bivouac of the P-NG Volunteer Rifles at Mt. Hagen and is here seen with local villagers.

BUSH BELLE: A long-time PIM reader, Mrs.

M. S. Pasley, of Manaba Plantation, Popon detta, Papua, calls this little charmer, daughter of a worker at Manaba, her "No. 1 Personality Girl". Mrs. Pasley says: She was 15 months old when this snap was taken, and giving her family the slip, she walked about 100 yards from their house, presumably to serenade me with her guitar. I found her outside our house actually plinking the strings—no tune, of course".

Mr. Geoff Nash (right), well-known as a former Morris Hedstrom man in several South Pacific territories, is these days chief storekeeper for the British Phosphate Commis sioners on Nauru, where this photograph was taken in February.

The BPC store is big business, with an annual turnover of $1 million.

The self-service section has a turn over of $50,000 a month. There is a European staff of 12.