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AND good grief, ’tis Friday. Well, it had to happen. Just between
ourselves have you spotted the growing
tendency for Friday to follow Thursday? And we’ve even noticed that
Saturday is following Friday on what is proving to be a regular basis.
Order among the days! A semblance of structure! Who would have thought
it?
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EXACTLY what do you mean by “keep taking the medication?”
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GOOD to see one of our resident diplomats venturing to the Highlands. US
Ambassador Leslie Rowe with her husband Theodore Diesenbacher looked a
happy couple on the tarmac at Goroka airport on Wednesday. Other foreign
representatives should follow the American lead. A bit of flag-waving
never did any harm in PNG.
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RIGHT, before we run out of space – our Quiz. Yesterday we deserted
Quizzer Namarola Lote just as matters were getting interesting; Namarola,
we’re back with you now, so go ahead.
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JK McCarthy was indeed a bit of a lad. Namarola tells us that after
graduating from Christian Brothers at St Kilda in Melbourne, the young
man went jackerooing in NSW, worked at Mark Foys Ltd in Melbourne and
then cut cane in Queensland. But the siren call of New Guinea, just six
years under Australian control, came in 1927.
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NOW with the Department of Native Affairs, he first went to Kokopo;
shortly afterwards the stocky young man found himself at a new station
opened at Malutu, among the Nakanai people of central New Britain. The
Australian administration thought well of him, and he joined a select
group in 1929 to study “suitable New Guinea subjects” at the University
of Sydney.
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By 1930, when the Great Depression was biting hard in Australia, young
McCarthy was in the Sepik where he served at Ambunti and Marienberg.
Police under his command shot and killed a villager and he was
transferred to Kavieng, where his insistence that local growers should
learn how to make their own copra made sure that he was quickly shifted
again.
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NEXT came Salamaua, briefly, and then Kainantu. We’ll leave JK and
Namarola there, and join them again on Monday. Have a splendid weekend!
– Dee Nesenolis
 
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