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Recruits of the Pacific Islands Regiment took part in a five mile raft race down the Goldie River, near Port Moresby in April, as a test of their fieldcraft.
Above is the winning raft, with crew members Corporal Kione, and Privates Wartovo, Soba, and Sarea. Below, Corporal Roy Gillett, of the P-NG Volunteer Rifles, on an exercise staged by "B"
Company on Watom Island, near Rabaul, in April.
Mr. Louis Frouin (centre), one of the best known French planters in the New Hebrides, has been awarded the French Ordre de L'Etoile Noire for his service overseas. Here he celebrates with the French Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides, Mr. J. Mouradian, and Mrs. Frouin.
Mr. Frouin, aged 87, has been in the Condominium since 1895. From 1909 to 1945 he was editor of the newspaper "Le Neo-Hebridais". He was condemned to death by a Saigon courtmartial in 1942 for sup porting De Gaulle. Photo: C. Mitride.
These soldiers of the Fiji Military Forces are dressed in grass skirts [?]vith a tapa midriff for a ceremony of welcome to Field Marshall Sir Richard Hull, Chief of Britain's De [?]ence Staff, who visited Fiji in March. Photo: Rob Wright.
grand old man of the Catholic Missions in the Pacific is shop John Aubin, Bishop of the South Solomons from 1935 [?]til his retirement in 1958. He still lives on Guadalcanal, id will be 85 in December. He arrived in the Solomons in 1907. This study is by Ted Marriott.
Brother Geoffrey (below), guardian of the Anglican Franciscan Friary, Popondetta, Papua, has been elected first Father Minister of the order's new Pacific Province, which means he is head of the Society of St. Francis in Australia and P-NG.