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Eight Blankets Each,
But Still Cold
The 44 Papuan police boys shivered in their
beds last night in spite of a special issue of eight
blankets: each to keep out Melbourne's cold.
But they strolled about In
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chocolate-colored legs gleaming
In the sun. ' .
The "boys arrived In Mel
bourne last night after a' tour
of Brisbane; Sydney, and Can
berra. They slept at thei
Engineers' Depot in Batman
Avenue.
A fewof them can speak a
little English. . Five of them
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Including So'inu. who' is 25 and
one of the eldest in -the band.
As . the 1 '.'boys'' chatted,
smoked, and- cleaned their in
struments In the sunny court
yard at the depot, two old
friends dropped in..
Love Bananas
. One was ; retired General- B.
M. Morris-,- who started , the
Sollce band when he was in
ew Guinea during the war,
When they saw him the
"boys" rushed, to shake his1
hand. Some: gave him ; a
salute and then . wrung his
hand as he plied them with
questions In pidgin English
about "him big pfeUa along
River Seplk."
Another visitor, Mr. Harry
Snook, who . drove them on the
tour of the' Western District in
1845, '.'dropped? . in": on- his
rounds as travelling salesman:'
While they are here the
"boys" arei eating, . meat, fish,
bread, rice, vegetables — 'and
bananas, about a dozen each a
day!
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