Nz Teachers For Fiji

AMONG the school teachers who ar rived in Fiji from NZ recently was Mr. George Pickles, who has' been appointed Assistant Principal of the new Teachers’ Training College. He was a member of the staff of Queen Victoria School, Fiji, in 1931 and 1932. The school was then at Nasinu. where the Training College is now situated. Mr.

Pickles was later an Assistant at the Suva Boys’ Grammar School.

Another teacher who has returned to the colony, is Miss Nancy Clements, who has been appointed an Assistant at the RrTrn rMrls’ Grammar School for her second term. ether newly arrived assistants for the Suva Grammar Schools are Mrs. K. M.

Miss J. F. Herbert, and Mr.

J. F. Cleary MA.

M’ss R. Hodgson, who is to join the staff of Levuka Public School, is at present relieving at the Suva Girls’ Gram mar School. Miss M. E. Archibald has teen appointed infant mistress at Levuka.

Other teachers who arrived in the Colony in early February, were Mr.

A. E. Tate, who has been appointed to Queen Victoria School as an Assistant: Mr. B. S. Mills BA. who is an Assistant at Natabua Indian Secondary School; and Miss M. E. Morrison, who is Women’s Warden and a Lecturer at the Teachers’

Training College. Miss L. McGowan, of Suva, has been appointed as Matron of the College.

The sum of £5,670 and £2,685 has been approved by the Executive Council of Queensland for the resoration of the electricity and water supplies respectively, at Thursday Island. The army had used the water and electric light services for about four years of occupation, according to the Local Government Minister (Mr.

Bruce), who said that the expenditure was necessary to restore the undertaking.

Compensation payments made by the War Damage Commission would cover the cost of the work.

Mr. B. B. Perriman and Mr. Ken Mc- Mullen. of the executive staff of W. R.

Carpenter & Co, (New Guinea) Ltd., ar rived in Rabaul at the end of February.

It was a new experience for McMullen, who for so many years was a prominent member of the Administration staff.

When he was last in Rabaul (in 1946) he was District Officer. Now he is a merchant. Either way (writes a corres pondent) Rabaul is always happy to see him.