Price-Fixing In Papua-New

Guinea?

IN the Commonwealth Gazette of December 6, applications are called for a Price Controller (salary £936- £1,036) and two Deputy Controllers (salary £822-£918) for Papua-New Guinea.

Applicants should be graduates in Com merce or Economics or qualified account ants, or have experience in price control.

Applications close on January 29.

Emperor and Loloma gold-mines, Fiji, being extremely short of skilled staff, have had their general manager, Mr. N.

E. Nilson, on the West Coast of New Zea land lately. Owing to the NZ £ going to parity with Sterling, the NZ gold-mine industry has slumped. It is likely that a party of selected West Coasters will be proceeding soon to Vatukoula.

Public servants in Western Samoa are pressing for the appointment of their own Public Service Commission. Its special function would be to find means of promoting local people, both Samoan and European, to positions of responsi bility.