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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1967Vol. 38, No. 2

Wel-Known P-Ng

p. 18 · Read in the full issue

Man "Goes Finish"

Mr. Percy Cochrane, chief of thes division of broadcasts for Papua- New Guinea's Department of [?] Information and Extension Services, "went finish" at the end of [?] January after an association of nearly 20 years with broadcasting. He has returned to Sydney with his wife, writer Renats Cochrane, who has resigned from

the department's publications sec[?]

tion.

Mr. Cochrane went to the ter ritory in 1949 as senior broad[?] casts officer in charge of preparing the Administration's "Native

People Session", presented daily

over the ABC. His future plan? call for producing a book of plays tailored to the NSW secondary school syllabus and catching up with "a vast backlog of creative work".