LIFE IN NEW GUINEA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17453, 30 December 1930, Page 10

LIFE IN NEW GUINEA

AUTHORESS’ HOME MISS GRIMSHAW IN N.Z. (For Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. On her third trip round the world, -Miss Beatrice Grimshaw, the Veilknown writer, reached Wellington by the Makura yesterday. She intends to go to Rarotonga by trie vessel and stay there until the worst of the. northern winter is oyer. For tlie past few months. Miss Grpnshaw has been in her home, Fori Moresby, New Guinea, where .she does Die greater part of her- work. Miss Grimshaw said that there was a wealth of material in the Pacific Islands, and she had no difficulty in producing Die same amount of fiction as before. Civilisation had made rapid strides in New Guinea under the Lieutenant-Governor, .Sir Herbert Murray, who had been there for years, lie was admirably fitted for his arduous duties. When Miss Grimshaw first went to Port; Moresby ”3 years ago, any person who-went, down the coast took his life in his hands. Now many natives were employed as cooks and chauffeurs and made tine servants. They were particularly proficient in dealing with machinery of any kind, and it was remarkable how quickly they mastered the intricacies of I lie motor car.