NG Public Service

THE following staff movements in the New Guinea Public Service were announced re cently:—

Permanent Staff Transfers

Health Dept. —Dr. E. A. Holland, Medical Officer, Kavieng to Rabaul.

Agriculture Dept. —J. A. Ewen, Inspector and Instructor, Namatanai to Kavieng; M. C.

Crocker, Inspector and Instructor, Kieta to Rabaul.

Temporary Engagements

Treasury Dept. —R. H. Forsyth, clerk; D. J.

Rankin, storeman.

Health Dept.— Mrs. D. G. D. Phillips, Cook- Housekeeper; Miss O. Wood, Nurse.

Police Force Transfers

C. Thomas, Warrant Officer. Kavieng to Rabaul: N. B. N. Blood, Warrant Officer, Rabaul to Wewak; F. E. Towner, Warrant Officer, Namatanai to Rabaul. Mr. R. Caldwell, District Commissioner in the Fiji Administration, arrived in New Zealand recently to spend two

months’ leave.

Mr. Max. Woodhouse, of the Bank of NSW staff in Fiji, recently married Miss Esther Steward, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Steward, of Suva, at Holy Trinity Pro-Cathedral, Suva. They arrived in Sydney by liner from Fiji in March, Mr. Woodhouse having been transferred to one of the bank’s branches in Australia.