Late News

January 16.

Major h. g. gregory-smith, Commissioner of the Interior, British Guiana, has been appointed Resident Commissioner in British Solomon Islands. He will arrive in Honiara in February. He is 50; served in Kenya until 1940; served in World War II; went to Guiana in 1946. * ♦ ♦ Mr. C. E. de F. Pennefather, who re tired from the post of Adviser oh Native Affairs, Fiji, in 1943, and had served 33 years in the Pacific, died in Auckland on January 8, aged 65. • ♦ ♦ Six BGD dredges in New Guinea in December got 5,096 oz. of fine gold from 1,024,000 yards of gravel.

Cuthberts Misima Mine (Papua) in December got 467 oz. of bullion—49 oz. gold, 67 oz. silver—from 269 tons of ore, * ♦ ♦ Rabaul residents are strongly opposing Education Department’s proposal that European, Chinese and half-caste child ren shall all be taught together in new primary school.