For Travellers on Aitutaki

PERSONS travelling to and from Rarotonga, via TEAL Coral Route, will soon have accom- Ddation on Aitutaki’s main island, lilst waiting connection between rcraft and ship. Lately, passeng s bound for Rarotonga have had wait weeks at Aitutaki.

Mr. John Harrington, local busi ss man, is erecting three native pe cottages as a business proposi m and travel facility. They are Aitutaki island, between the ain village and the airfield—not Akaiami islet, where the sea me terminal is located.

Mr. Harrington also is complet l his own home, near the cottages, rt of which will be available for iirist use. A feature is a bar, corated with the wheel of exander, wrecked on Aitutaki ef.

On Akaiami, TEAL soon will ild over-night facilities for Coral ute travellers to cope with emerg cy over-night stops.

A move has been initiated by the rents’ and Citizens’ Association at >rt Moresby for a Federation of e 14 P & C groups throughout the irritory. The new school at >roka was officially opened dur l Coronation Week.

If Rabaul now has a father-and-son team as practising barristers and solicitors, the first combination of this sort in the Territory. The newcomer is Mr. Mervyn Wallace Angell James, son of Mr. Harold F.

James; he was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of Papua and New Guinea, at Port Moresby, on May 12. Mr. James, Jr., graduated in Law at Sydney University in

1950, following war service, and practised in Sydney before going to the Territory, If Mr. R. V. Cole, Deputy Director of Lands, Mines and Surveys in Fiji since 1944, has been appointed Director in succession to Mr.

W. H. B. Buckhurst, who recently retired. Mr. Cole went to Fiji from Brisbane as a surveyor in 1925.