Happy Wedding Party in Vila

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Ratu George Cakobau has been selected to be a Fijian member of the Legislative Council in the place of the late Ratu George Toeanivalu OBE George lOganivalU,

The New Guinea Administration recently bought two Port Moresby residences, in at attempt to solve its staff housing problems—the Ela Beach residence of Mr. Tom Nevitt (retired to Australia) for £9,000, and the Lawes Road residence of the late Mr. A. K. Edwards, for £6,250.

[?] New Hebrides romance, which had its [?]inning when a French cruiser called at [?]t Vila, Santo, in 1947, was advanced [?]further step on September 19, when [?]lle Irene de Laplane was married, in [?]a, to M. Maurice Binnvenu. The [?]degroom, in 1947, was an officer on [?] warship, and the meeting with Mdlle [?] Laplane, then on the Vila staff of the

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Hebrides, meant love at first sight. The photograph, by John Sang Studios, shows the happy party which assisted in the ceremony—notable, incidentally, for the good looks of the young women of Port Vila. M. and Mdme Binnvenu plan to make their future home in France.