Third Term As Suva Mayor
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Mr. T. W. Alport Barker
AT the annual meeting of the Suva Town Council on November 15 Mr T. W. Alport Barker was elected Mayor for a third term.
In August 26 he was elected to the Leg islative Council as the European member for the Southern District. Mr. Barker has given something like 30 years to the public life of the Colony. He was an elected member of the Council for 22 years before he lost to Mr. A. A Ragg in 1944. In 1947 he lost to Mr. Ragg again but in 1950 he came out on top.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Leo Murphy of Lae, New Guinea, recently.
Among delegates at a conference of police chiefs in Sydney in November were Deputy Commissioner W. J. G. HoUard, of Fiji, and Commissioner J. S. Grimshaw, of Papua, New Guinea.
Carols sung by the choir of St.
Matthews Church School, Wamira, Papua, were heard in an ABC radio pro gramme in Australia on the afternoon of December 10.
'There are 89 Australians working in New Guinea, Melanesia, Polynesia, Malaya, and among the Australian aborigines, who have been sent through the Australian Board of Missions. There are 83 mis sionary candidates in various stages of training at the present time.
History was made in Rabaul, New Guinea, in early October. The first native ever to purchase a refrigerator has obtained one from a local store, and threatens to go into business with it, making and selling ice-cream to his brown brothers.