Moresby
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New PS Commissioner Takes up Duties in Moresby
MR. T. A. HUXLEY, who took up his job as Public Service Com missioner for Papua-New Guinea in mid-August, in succession to Mr.
E. A. F. Head, has had a some what mixed career—little of it as an orthodox straightout public servant.
He was born in Warwick, Qld., in 1909, and joined the Queensland State Education Dept, in 1926, teaching until he enlisted in 1940.
He served in Middle East, NG, and
Darwin and graduated from Dun troon Military College and became a lecturer in administration there in 1943. He went back to teaching in Warwick in 1945, but in 1947 was appointed Deputy Rent Controller for Queensland and the Northern Territory. The following year he became senior investigator and liaison officer for the Common wealth Department of Health in Qld., and received promotion in the same department in 1950.
H Visitors to Tahiti for the July celebrations this year included Mr.
Alan Donald, Mr. Ewan Donald, and Mr. Sam Bennett, of Messrs. A. B.
Donald & Co., Auckland.