Too Many People On
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Tikopia
PROFESSOR James Spillius, of the Australian National Uni versity, who has returned to civilisation after 14 months of research work on isolated Tikopia, BSI, has reported in Auckland that, owing to over-population, about 500 people will soon be transferred from Tikopia to another island. The pre sent 1,700 population of the 6-square mile island is rapidly increasing, he said.
JMr. JackWhitta, popular Customs Officer of Rarotonga for eight years, has been appointed Treasurer at Niue Island.. With his wife he left for Niue in September.
At a children’s fancy-dress ball in Port Moresby, in early September, Mrs. D. M.
Cleland, wife of Papua-New Guinea’s Administrator, met a very young Ancient [?]oman, in the person of Oliver White, on of Mr. and Mrs. Frank White. She [?]s shown presenting him with a prize, —Photo by Papuan Prints.