OSMAR WHITE (above) is a New Zealander though he has spent a good deal of his time in Australia. In recent months his name, attached to cable messages from New Guinea, has probably become familiar to many readers of our daily newspapers, and before the war he was chief of staff of the "Taranaki Daily News" and acting-editor of the "New Zealand Radio Record" for a period. In 1938 he was special writer for the "Sun Pictorial," Melbourne; he has contributed fiction to many English and American magazines; and he had previously travelled in the East, and the Netherlands East Indies and Pacific Islands. He went to Port Moresby last January, representing an Australian morning newspaper group, the "Daily Express" (London), and American papers, and his accounts of the New Guinea campaign have also appeared in "Colliers Magazine." In New Guinea he experienced 70-odd air raids; crossed the Owen Stanleys on foot four times, did operational flights with the Air Force, and paid visits to North Australian bases. He came out of New Guinea on a troop transport through the Coral Sea battle. His future plans involve a tour of all operational areas in the Pacific. His wife is a New Zealander who was special writer for the "Dominion," Wellington, and for the "Radio Record." She is now publicity officer for the Australian Red Cross. They have a two-year-old daughter, Susan, whom her father says he proposes to teach to read but not to write.

New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 187, 22 January 1943, Page 8

OSMAR WHITE (above) is a New Zealander though he has spent a good deal of his time in Australia. In recent months his name, attached to cable messages from New Guinea, has probably become familiar to many readers of our daily newspapers, and before the war he was chief of staff of the "Taranaki Daily News" and acting-editor of the "New Zealand Radio Record" for a period. In 1938 he was special writer for the "Sun Pictorial," Melbourne; he has contributed fiction to many English and American magazines; and he had previously travelled in the East, and the Netherlands East Indies and Pacific Islands.

He went to Port Moresby last January, representing an Australian morning newspaper group, the "Daily Express" (London), and American papers, and his accounts of the New Guinea campaign have also appeared in "Colliers Magazine." In New Guinea he experienced 70-odd air raids; crossed the Owen Stanleys on foot four times, did operational flights with the Air Force, and paid visits to North Australian bases. He came out of New Guinea on a troop transport through the Coral Sea battle. His future plans involve a tour of all operational areas in the Pacific.

His wife is a New Zealander who was special writer for the "Dominion," Wellington, and for the "Radio Record." She is now publicity officer for the Australian Red Cross. They have a two-year--old daughter, Susan, whom her father says he proposes to teach to read but not to write.