New Job For Mr. J. B.
pp. 53-54 · Read in the full issue
Wright
IT was announced in Wellington on June 13 that Mr. J. B.
Wright, who has just completed a three-year term as Secretary to the Government of Western Samoa, has been appointed Secretary to the New Zealand Island Territories Department, Wellington.
Mr. Wright takes the appointment in succession to Mr. R. T. G. Patrick who recently retired after a long period of service in the New Zea land Government.
A High Court appeal in Mel bourne by a New Guinea-born Chinese, Wong Man On, failed in June. He appealed against a de portation order, claiming British nationality. As he was born in NG in 1916, when the Territory was under military administration, the Court ruled that it was still under German rule and that Wong was
not a British subject. He went to Australia as an evacuee in 1942.
Mr. and Mrs. John Stubbs and daughter, formerly of Norfolk Island, were in Auckland in early June en route to Suva where Mr.
Stubbs will be in charge of the local cable station.