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NEW GUINEA. THE NATIVE VILLAGE OF HANAUBADA, PORT MORESBY AFTER IT HAD BEEN SWEPT BY FIRE, WHICH IT IS BELIEVED WAS ACCIDENTAL. THIS WAS THE BIGGEST VILLAGE OF "SALTWATER" LOCALS IN PAPUA AND HAD A POPULATION OF 3,000. MUCH OF THE CONTENTS OF THE HUTS WAS SAVED. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN).
NEW GUINEA. THE NATIVE VILLAGE OF HANAUBADA, PORT MORESBY AFTER IT HAD BEEN SWEPT BY FIRE, WHICH IT IS BELIEVED WAS ACCIDENTAL. THIS WAS THE BIGGEST VILLAGE OF "SALTWATER" LOCALS IN PAPUA AND HAD A PO
NEW GUINEA. WITHIN A FEW HOURS AFTER A FIRE HAD SWEPT THROUGH THE NATIVE VILLAGE OF HANAUBADA, WHICH HOUSED 3,000 NATIVES, THE MEN HAD ERECTED PALM THATCHED LEANTO'S AND WERE ISSUED WITH TENTS. THE LO
NEW GUINEA. THIS NATIVE VILLAGE, HANUABADA, MEANING "BIG VILLAGE," HAD A PRE- WAR POPULATION OF 2,700 ROOFED WITH CUNAI GRASS OR BIRI PALMS, THE HUTS HAVE TO BE REROOFED AT THREE YEAR INTERVALS. PRACT
PORT MORESBY, PAPUA. 1942-07. A GROUP OF NEW GUINEA "BOYS" IN A NATIVE VILLAGE SINCE THE DEPARTURE OF THE WHITE CIVILIAN POPULATION THESE "BOYS" DO LAUNDRY WORK AND DOMESTIC DUTIES IN CAMP AREAS.
PORT MORESBY - YOUNG AND VERY OLD NATIVE WOMEN OF HANUABADA VILLAGE. RAAF SURVEY FLIGHT. (NEGATIVE BY N. TRACY).
PORT MORESBY, PAPUA. 1942-07. JAPANESE BOMBING RAIDS OVER PORT MORESBY CAUSED MOST OF THE NATIVE POPULATION TO GO TO THE HILLS. A SMALL NUMBER OF NATIVE "BOYS" REMAINED, OTHERS WERE BROUGHT BACK AND T
