Annual Elections On Pitcairn
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Island
From a Special Correspondent THE annual elections were held on Pitcairn Island on December 22, when Mr. Parkin Christian was elected Chief Magistrate. He has held this position on previous occasions. Three candidates stood for election but he polled more than half of the votes.
The retiring Chief Magistrate is Mr.
Norris Young.
Mr. Christian had been away from the island for the past few years living with his son, Mr. Richard Christian, at Parramatta, NSW. His term of office commenced on January 1, 1949.
Mr. Eliot Elisofon, a Life Magazine photographer recently visited New Guinea in the course of a world tour for his paper. His chief interest in the Territory was in the newly-established sheep-station at Nondugl in the Central Highlands, where he took a series of photographs. In Lae he collected several examples of native carving which he will add to a collection which he intends to present to the New York museum.