N.G. Public Service
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THE following alterations in the staff of the Public Service of New Guinea were gazetted in the Administration’s Bulletin No. 41:—
Appointments And Promotions
William McGregor Pestell, Inspector and In structor, Dept, of Agriculture; Frederick James Jeffrey, Inspector and Instructor, Dept, of Agri culture; James Frederick Collins, Medical Assist ant, Grade 1., Public Health Dept.; J. L. Street, Registrar of Titles and Official Trustee, promoted from 2nd division to Ist division; G. T. Wells, Dept, of District Services, promoted to Clerk; L.
R. Bultitude, Medical Assistant, Grade 1., pro moted to Clerk, Govt. Secretary’s Dept,; H. A.
Gregory, appointed Acting District Officer, District Services Dept.
Transfers
F. Boisen, Assistant Teacher, Rabaul to Kavieng; C. J. Burch, Assistant Instructor, Technical School, Kavieng to Rabaul; R. J. McConnell, Clerk, District Service, Rabaul to Kokopo; J. H. McDon ald, A.D.O, Rabaul to A. C. Koskey, Clerk, District Service, Kokopo to Salamaua; J.
Woodville, Clerk, District Service, Wewak to Rabaul; J. I. Merrylees, A.D.0., Kieta to Rabaul; A H. Ross, Patrol Officer, Rabaul to Salamaua; C. F. Warde, Patrol Officer, Kieta to Rabaul; H.
L. R. Niall, Patrol Officer, Madang to Rabaul; Miss K. M. Murray, Nurse, Rabaul to Salamaua; C. H. E. Cox, Medical Assistant, Grade 11., Kieta to Rabaul; J. F. Collins, Medical Assistant, Grade 1., Rabaul to Salamaua; I. Clark, Medical Assist ant, Grade 1., Madang to Edie Creek; Warrant Officer A. E. Halley, Angoram to Wewak.
Temporary Appointments
L. A. Gibson, Clerk, District Service; L. C.
Saunders, Storeman, Treasury Dept.; A. Cameron Roadmaster, Public Works Dept.; F. Robartson, Chamman, Lands Dept., transferred from Wau to Salamaua.
Mr. C. J. J. T. Barton, 0.8. E., M.A., senior assistant Colonial Secretary of the Crown Colony of Kenya, East Africa, has been appointed Colonial Secretary of Fiji. Joining the Colonial Service in 1914 he was sent to the East African Protec torate as assistant district commissioner.
In 1923 he was given the post of assis tant secretary, and acted as senior assis tant from 1924 to 1926. Three years ago he was appointed permanently to the position of senior assistant Colonial Sec retary.
Mr. H. E. Hallam, acting mine manager of Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing Ltd., New Guinea, has resigned, and Mr. W. Johnsen has been appointed mine manager. Mr.
Johnsen has had considerable experience in hydraulic mining operations and for some time past has been manager of Kildare Consolidated Gold Mining Co., St.
Bathans, Central Otago, New Zealand.
Mr. G. Williams departed from Sydney early in September for New Guinea, where he will join the office staff of Guinea Airways Ltd. at Lae.
Captain Josef Steffany, a well-known identity of the Central Pacific, died at Pago Pago, American Samoa, in July, at the age of 66. Born in Holland, he roamed the world for 15 years before arriving in Samoa in 1901 as mate of the schooner Serena Thayer. Of late years he had been in command of Islands vessels plying between Apia and Pago Pago.