Ordained in Papua

The two ships, Horizon an Beard, of the Scripps Oceane graphic Expedition now in tl Pacific, arrived at Suva in mi( December. The ships have bee studying the ocean bed in tl northern Pacific and have call( at Honolulu, Kwajalein and Oces Island. From Suva they will go c to Tonga for an examination < the Tongan Deep and will lab call at Apia, Pago Pago, Rare tonga and Tahiti.

Julian Eli, who on December 21, w[?] ordained a Sub-Deacon by the Vic[?] Apostolic of Papua, Bishop Sorin. T[?] ceremony took place at Yule Island Julian, who is 32, is a native of t[?] Mekeo district, Papua, and has recent completed his ecclesiastical studies at t[?] Catholic Seminary at Torokina, Bougai[?] ville.

Mr. P. N. Dalton, Solicitor- General, Fiji, has accepted a trans fer on promotion to the British Solomon Island Protectorate as Legal Adviser to the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific and Attorney- General, British Solomon Islands Protectorate. He will leave for Honiara in January, 1953.

Mr. W. H. B. Buckhurst, Director of Lands, Mines and Surveys in Fiji since 1944, with Mrs. Buck hurst . and family, left Suva on December 6 for New Zealand on pre-retirement leave. Mr. Buck hurst was a prominent Rotarian, interested himself in the housing of Fijians working in Suva and took a leading part in reviving amateur athletics in the Colony.

In appreciation of this this latter interest, Buckhutst Park, Suva, has been named after him). He has been in Fiji since 1928. Mr.

R. V. Cole has been appointed acting Director of Lands.

Northbound per Matua late December: — Mr. F. M. Giblin, formerly of Fiji but low of Auckland, who took his fiancee, Mliss Joy Howell, north on holiday, Miss K. Vakalala, of Mbua, who [?] [?]mpleted her training as a nurse at Tauranga hospital, NZ, returned home on holiday.

Miss Lorraine Stewart and Miss Beverley Anderson were to be guests of he Payne family of Suva for Christmas, Miss L. Boyer and Anne Boyer who were to visit Suva relatives.