N.G. Public Service

RECENT staff movements in the New Guinea , Administration were announced on Septem ber 9 as follows; —

Transfers

Public Health Dept.: R. Davies. Medical Assist ant, Kieta to Rabaul; M. C. Mann. Medical As sistant, Aitape to Ambunti; A. C. Ewing, Medi cal Assistant, Rabaul to Morobe; L. A. Hudson, Medical Assistant, Wewak to Aitape.

Govt. Secretary’s Dept.: K. S. Sheekey, Regis trar-General’s branch to Lands Dept., Rabaul.

District Services Dept.: G. M. Keogh, Patrol Officer, Wewak to Aitape; L. Pursehouse, Cadet.

Wewak to Angoram; D. H. Vertigan, A.D.0., Rabaul to Namatanai, via Kavieng.

Police Force: W. B. Prior, Warrant Officer, Rabaul to Wau; H. R. Taylor, Warrant Officer.

Kieta to Rabaul; A. E. Halley, Warrant Officer.

Rabaul to Kieta.

Temporary Employees

Engagements: Miss H. Holmes, Typiste, Regis trar-General’s branch. Govt. Secretary’s Dept., Rabaul; A. Munro. Mechanic, Treasury Dept., Rabaul; Mrs. S. Best, Nurse, Namanula Hospital.

Rabaul; H. R. Frazer, Roadmaster, Public Works Dept. Rabaul: W. F. Muir, Carpenter. Public Works Dept., Salamaua; F. R. Shaw. Roadmaster, Public Works Dept., Wau.

Transfers: A. Cameron, Roadmaster, to Mecha nic, Salamaua; J. R. Thomas, Roadmaster, Edie Creek, to Storeman, Wau.

Mr. Cameron Buffett, who is spending his furlough on his native Norfolk Island, is a direct descendant of Edward Young, once a midshipman on H.M.S. Bounty.

For the past 26 years he has been in the service of the Melanesian Mission, and is indeed, one of the oldest members of the staff. The name of Buffett has been familiar among the records of Pitcairn Island since 1823 when John Buffett, a young Englishman who had been appren ticed to a cabinet-maker, arrived on the island and settled there as teacher and pastor.