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Education Officers
P. Moresby, Feb. 20.
ANOTHER 20 Education officers are to be engaged in Australia for Papua-New Guinea. Of these, 10 are to do a one-year course at the Australian School of Pacific Administration in Sydney before taking up duty in the Territory.
The others will have to go direct to their jobs without benefit of
Asopa
There is now to be a regular intake of Education cadets. Those who have acquired their teacher’s certificate will be given a year at ASOPA before they see the Terri tory; but others, who still lack a certificate, will do a year’s course at a Teachers’ Training College before going on to ASOPA.
Life is made easy for these young people. There is something to this quip about being born thirty years too soon!
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Clark, of New Zealand, joined the staff of the Levuka Public School in February.
Queensland Government has an nounced it will subsidise the Torres Strait MOP industry by £1,500 in the coming season. A school for divers will be established at Thurs day Island in an effort to improve the work of the Torres Strait Islander divers now operating the industry there.
The Rev. Arnold and Mrs. Stackhouse, [?]en at Katoomba with Mrs. A. E. ker, with whom they stayed when gland visiting Sydney en route from gland to New Zealand, where they plan settle.
Mr. Arnold Stackhouse was the first [?]ister of the Church of England ap nted to the Parish of Viti Levu West, [?],where he was for over ten years;
and he and his family are well-known to many “Kai Vitls.” Their son John and recently-married daughter, Hilda, are settled in Wellington. NZ. Their son Harry, with his wife and four young daughters are at the Woomera Rocket Range, Central Australia; and daughter Mary is teaching in Sarawak.