Kokopo Branch of Commonwealth
pp. 59-60 · Read in the full issue
Bank
From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, April 21.
FROM May 3, the Commonwealth Bank will be operating a branch at Koko po, New Britain.
The branch will be open on only one day per week—that is, each Tuesday, when hours for business will be 9.30 a.m. to noon; and 1.30 p.m. unth 2.30 p.m.
Mr. Dudley Jones has now set up prac tice as a solicitor in Rabaul, New Guinea.
Dr. John Wesley Coulter, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Cincinnati, has accepted an appointment in the Trusteeship Division of the Se cretariat of the United Nations, where he will be specialist on Pacific Islands and Pacific Asia. Upon taking up his duties, at UN headquarters at Lake Success, NY, Dr. Coulter was placed third in command of the UN Trusteeship Division and in top command for the Pacific Islands and Pacific Asia. Dr. Coulter lived for many years in the Pacific and has personal knowledge of the native peoples. He was
for* 13 years on the staff of the University of Hawaii. He is the author of many publications on the Pacific Islands, in cluding “Fiji: Little India of the Pacific,” published by the University of Chicago Press. Dr. Coulter was in New Zealand in February, at the Pacific Science Congress.
Mrs. Florence Gilmore, well-known resi dent of New Guinea was attending a round of farewell parties in Rabaul in April. She left Rabaul on April 22 by plane for Sydney. In June she expects to sail for the United Kingdom in the “Orion” for a 12-months’ holiday.