New Guinea’s first Pidgin English newspaper. "Pidgin News.' has started a comic strip—Mickey Mouse. The ' Pidgin News” appears as a faur-page supplement in the weekly New Guinea "Times Courier ’ The strip has no caption and is headed ‘Mickey Mouse na pren b.long em long Walt Disr.ey." meaning in Pidgin, “Mickey Mouse and his friends, by Walt Disney." ’•Pidgin News’’ was started about 12 months ago in Lae and circulates among thousands of natives on the New Guinea mainland and New Britain After it is read it is smoked with twist tobacco tPort Moresby. August 2 >
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29582, 3 August 1961, Page 17
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