For P-NG Key Positions

Australian Public Servants For P-NG Key Positions

From Our Own Correspondent urnnwenv t o

Port Moresby, Jan. 2.

nT HE new Papua and New Guinea 1 Secretary for Lands is Mr.

TwronTnnp« 4Q-vpar-old barrister economist and accountant. and f ormer Acting Director for Lands in the Northern Territory.

Mr. C. L. Anthony is the new Assist ant Secretary of the Department.

Tony Anthony has been m the government service of the Islands gince 192? when he joined the New Guinea Public Service as a drafts man. Before that he was busy get ting experience with the New South Wales Lands Department. He moves up from the post of Chief Lands Department draftsman to his pre sent appoin t m ent.

Another new departmental head and a newcomer to the Territory Public Service is Mr. Frank Lee, who relinquished the job of Col lector of Customs at Townsville to become Chief Customs Collector for Papua and New Guinea. This fills the vacancy caused by the death of the former Chief Collector, Mr.

Vr, oTir T

Grahamslaw, who has been Acting Chief Collector.

Applications for the post of Public Service Commissioner for Papua and New Guinea closed at Canberra on December 31. The present Com missioner Mr. E. A. F Head, will finish his term next September, and he already has been appointed Com monwealth Public Service Inspector at Perth, W.A.