Identifier: tamingnewguinea00monc (find matches)
Title: Taming New Guinea;
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Monckton, C. A. W. (Charles Arthur Whitmore), 1872-1936
Subjects: Papuans Papua New Guinea
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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miners, praying that the headquarters of the Divisionshould be moved to that island. This petition had my entiresympathy. It was utterly absurd that an island carrying twohundred European inhabitants, and some hundreds of natives,should be passed over in favour of a tiny islet, the population ofwhich consisted solely of Government servants. I put in arecommendation to this effect, which was referred to Campbell onhis return, and pooh-poohed. Later, however, the Governmentwas compelled to adopt my recommendation, and transfer theStation from Nivani to Woodlark. From Woodlark, Moreton and I sailed for Ferguson, Trobriand,and Goodenough Islands ; then—having completed certain policework—we returned to Samarai. From thence I took the Murua(her bottom now having been repaired) to Nivani, there to com-plete refitting. Hardly had I got her fit for sea again, when theMerrie England appeared, bringing the new Lieutenant-Governor,Sir George Le Hunte, also the R.M., Campbell, back fromleave.
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SIK r.l-.i (RGE IK HUNTE, K.C.M.G CHAPTER XV THE new Governor was a man as different from SirWilliam MacGregor as chalk from cheese. Mr. Le Hunte(as he was then) was a pleasant, genial Irishman ;greeting each one of his officers, as if he were the veryman he most wanted to see ; ever being painfully anxious to avoidhurting any ones feelings, or being obliged to censure them. Hecertainly was a man who inspired great liking and affection inhis subordinates ; but he would sooner cajole a slack man intodoing his work, by increasing his pay or easing his duties, thanspur him on with a caustic reprimand or a little additional work. The Governor brought with him Captain Barton, late WestIndia Regiment, and the Honble. C. G. Murray, as privatesecretary and assistant private secretary respectively—the latterwithout pay. One of these men, at the present time of writing, isFirst Minister to the Sultan of Zanzibar, and the other, Adminis-trator of St. Vincent; whilst in New Guinea they each rec

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