Innes-Barnard Wedding

With continuing prosperity in sstern Samoa and high prices for coabeans and copra assured for

some time to come, the number of motor vehicles on Samoan roads is rapidly increasing. In March over

forty vehicles, including cars, station wfaggons, trucks and motor buses were imported from the USA, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Congestion of motor traffic on the roads round Apia and the lack of road-consciousness on the part of the Samoan public has lately caused a number of motor accidents, some fatal.

This photograph was taken after the wedding of Miss Heather Innes to Mr.

Peter Barnard in Sydney in February. (See March PIM.) From left to right: Mr.

Frank Blundell, Miss Sue Kingsmill. Mr. Roy Hardie, Mrs. Margaret Eslick, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Barnard, Mr. Tony Harding, Mrs. F. Blundell, Mr. Bill Mitchell, Miss Joan Wetherall. —Stinson’s Studio.

Dr. Vladislav Skiba. who will be in charge of the Geological survey of Fiji which is part of the Colony’s Development plan, arrived in Suva in March. He is a graduate of Lvov and Edinburgh Universities, and has recently been Demonstrator in Geology at the University of Nottingham. He was a captain in the

Polish army during the war, and later served in the Middle East with the Bth Army.

Mr. Gilbert Renton left New Guinea early in March for his native England. He is well-known in Rabaul commercial life, and will be absent some months.