Two Papeete Weddings

From Our Owji Correspondent

Papeete, Sept. 5.

THE marriage took place in Papeete, Tahiti, on August 26 of Mile. Claude Guilpain to M. Francois Levesque, well-known industrialist of Tahiti. Mile Guilpain is the daughter of a prominent local solicitor.

The ceremony was attended by Governor and Madame Anziani and other distin

guished guests.

On the same day, Mile. Jessy Fanaurai was married to M. Edwin Poroi. Both bride and groom are on the staff of the Health Department and they were about to leave Papeete to take up duties in the outlying islands of French Oceania where the natives are in need of guidance on education and hygiene.

Governor and Madame Anziani and officials of the Health Department were present at the wedding to congratulate the couple and to wish them success in their new work.

The Fiji Customs Department, which re presents the United Kingdom Board of Trade in Fiji, has set up a reading room in Suva to give traders and other local buyers ready access to catalogues of United Kingdom firms and to British busi ness directories and trade journals.

Mr. J. B. Mawson, MA, Headmastet ol the Suva Boys’ Grammar School, will be leaving the Colony on retirement at the end of the present school term. He will be succeeded by Mr. M. McGrath, BA, who went to the Colony from New Zealand in 1936 as an Assistant Master at Queen Vic toria School and was promoted Head master at Levuka Public School in 1937.

In 1944 he became Headmaster of Provin cial School, Eastern, and two years later, Inspector of Schools. At present he is in charge of all schools in the Southern Dis trict.

July 4 was the first anniversary of the daily news-broadcast from Radio-Tahiti.

Before July, 1949, the radio was operated on a bi-weekly schedule.

A prize of two weeks’ holiday in Fiji, donated by Qantas Empire Airways, was recently won by a Manly (NSW) woman, Mrs. Olga Azevedo. This was the first prize in a Lucky Blood Donors’ Competi tion run by Red Cross in their Sydney campaign for enrolling more blood donors.