Director Of N.G. Native

Department

AS indicated in the “P.1.M.” in Febru ary, Mr. E. W. P. Chinnery was ap pointed. late in February, to be director of the newly created Common wealth Department of Native Affairs, at £1,200 per annum.

He was formerly Government Anthro pologist in New Guinea, and in later years was in charge of Native Affairs and District Services.

Mr. Chinnery left Melbourne at the end of February for New Guinea, to clear up his official affairs there, and he will then proceed to his Darwin headquart ers.

One of his first tasks will be to or ganise in the Northern Territory a sys tem of district and patrol officers simi lar to that in New Guinea and Papua.

An assistant director of native affairs, who will probably be an official of the Department of the Interior, with personal knowledge of North Australian conditions, is also to be appointed.

The report that Mr. Chinnery, in his new post, would have some control over native affairs in Papua and New Guinea, apparently was inaccurate.

Mr. and Mrs. Clive B. Stocks, who were married in Sydney on February 4, will make their home at Lautoka, Fiji.

The bride was formerly Miss Geneva Moffltt,