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M. Georges Ahne, Papeete lawyer, has been elected deputy for Tahiti in Paris.

He polled 7,038 votes against 5.328 for Madame Tumahai, 1,814 for M. Francis Sanford, and 222 for M. Jean Baptists Thunot. As Councillor of the Republic, the Tahitian Representative Assembly has elected M. Joseph Quesnot, who received 11 votes out of 20 cast.

Mr. George Cashbolt, an old employee of the WRC company, is due in Sydney this month on extended leave, which he will spend in New Zealand.

Captain Harry Lee, of MS “Karu”, re cently arrived in Sydney from Port Moresby on sick leave. Other old sea faring identities of New Guinea are Captain Bobbie Crookshank, who is making a trip to Java, and Captain Tom Proctor, on the good ship “Innisfail”, who was last heard of in Madang.

Mr. Douglas McDonald, son of Colonel and Mrs, J. H. McDonald, of New Guinea, was married in Sydney on Saturday, May 10, to Patricia Curnow, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Vyvyan Curnow, of Cremorne.

The ceremony took place- in St. Chad’s Cremorne. Mrs. Lloyd Jones, of Mel bourne, acted as matron of honour and Mr. Aubrey Johnston, a fellow officer of the groom in the Merchant Navy, was best man. The groom’s father, Colonel McDonald, was recently Deputy Adminis trator in Rabaul.

Mr. C. L. Wilde, who left his mark prominently on the Territory of New Guinea, as planter and trader, during several decades, is now living quietly in Sydney. The fine coffee plantation, which he pioneered and successfully est ablished at Wau, in the Morobe Valley, was actually the scene of a battle between Australians and Japs, in 1943. It suffered severely from the fighting, and from “scorched earth”. Mr. Wilde reports that the plantation has been sold, subject to the consent of Australian Officialdom.

Mr. Wilde is now well over 70 years old, but is still a handsome and virile man.

Rev. Father Doherty, of Suva, and Mr.

A. G. Prasad, of the Teachers’ Training College, Nasinu, have been appointed members of the Fiji Board of Education. .. Mrs. J. H. Beighton departed recently for Rabaul, where she will join her hus band, who is managing Manguna planta tion, on the south coast of New Britain.

Mr. E. J. Frame, territorial manager in Papua-New Guinea for Messrs. Burns Philp & Co., has returned to Port Moresby where his headquarters are situated. Mrs. Frame has joined her hus band there, travelling by MV “Malaita.”

Mr. B. B. Perriman, a director of W.

R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd., left Sydnev for New Guinea during the last week in April. He will make a general tour of inspection of the company’s interests in the Territory.

Judge Gaetan Jeanson, of the New Cal edonian Court has been transferred to Vila, New Hebrides, where he will replace temporarily Judge Geslin of the Condo minium Court who has left for France on leave.

A New Caledonian sailor, George Clemen, who was lost in February, 1942, with the Free French submarine “Sur couf”. has been posthumiously awarded the Croix de Guerre.