Important

Mr. W. D. Forsyth For Important United Nations Post

MR. W. D. FORSYTH, who wr Secretary-General of tH: South Pacific Commissio. from 1948 until June, 1951, has lee Canberra for the United States ' become the new Minister in charr of the Australian Mission to tH; United Nations, at Lake Success The Ministry has been vacant sin«r Mr. J. D. L. Hood left to becora Australian Ambassador to Indonesa in April. 1950.

Mr. Forsyth saw a good deal foreign service as an Australis! representative before he went the South Pacific Commission, iii eluding service at Lake Success.

Mr. Fred P. Archer, of Yam Plantation, Buka, New Guinea, W decided to sell out and retire. I is inviting tenders for the pu< chase of the coconut property which he owns or controls on Bun and Bougainville. It is 24 yess since Mr. Archer went to Buka —except for some interesting s©g vice in World War ll—he has bee there ever since.

Mr. M. J. Leahy was in Sydm in mid-September, supervising shir ment of 42 Illawarra milking Shoo horns and one prize bull to LJ for his farm in the high countr of New Guinea. The venture cio £4,000. Practical evidence of fa:o in New Guinea!

Hydrogen gas, stored in cylinders in a shed off the Public Works Dept.’s welding shop at Walu Bay, Suva, exploded violently in the evening of August 21. Mr.

John Lobendahn, foreman, 34, who was

close to the scene, was blown to pieces, and the blast rocked nearby buildings and was heard all over Suva. Photo (by Caine’s Studios) shows how the explosion wrecked the shed. Police can find no cause.