Kavieng’s Permanent House

Colonel C. L. Pleasants, Comander of the Fiji Military Forces, to become Commander of the jrthern Military District of New ;aland towards the end of the ar. His successor in Fiji has not t been announced.

fl Ngaire Jean, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Vipond, of Silverdale, North Auckland. NZ, announced her engagement in June to Mr. John Rae Phillips, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Phillips, of Vunidawa, Fiji.

tl Mr. and Mrs. Rod Hart, of the Anglican Mission, Papua, arrived in Adelaide on leave early in April.

Both were prominent in rescue work during the Mount Lamington disas ter, and Mr. Hart was awarded an OBE for his services.

This is virtually the only new, per nent European dwelling in Kavieng, w Ireland. It belongs to the Regional rector of Commonwealth Works Dept. other officials live in native material uses. The whole of the District Com ssioner’s house is built on the cement [?]dations of what used to be lominski’s drawing-room way back in [?]0 or 1912. (Bulominski was one of the [?]re famous of the German adminis-

trators and was responsible for the building of New Irelands famous—and now infamous—East Coast Road. He died shortly before he was due to retire from the colonial service and was buried in Kavieng cemetary. His grave, marked with a large white cross, was undisturbed by the Japs, but Bulominski must have done some considerable rolling about in it if he is aware of the present state of his once-beautiful Kavieng.)