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Rabaul’S Councillors

Meet For First Time

MEMBERS of the newly recon stituted Rabaul Advisory Coun cil were concerned mainly with the formal business of getting the Council functioning under the new rules when they met for the first time on September 11.

Mr. K. E. Cummings was elected Chairman of the Council, with Mr.

D. Jones as Deputy Chairman. Miss M. Lamberton was elected Secre tary unopposed.

There are four Government mem bers on the new Council and 14 non-official members —s ‘even of whom (Class 2) will servA the full 2-years’ life of the Council and the remaining 7 (Class 1) retire after one year. Fr. J. Dwyer offered himself in the Class 1 category—he said that he felt he could say all he wished to say in one year. Mr.

R. Galloway also offered himself as a Class 1 candidate.

The seven Class 2 members were ultimately decided by preferential vote; the results will be announced at the October meeting of the Council.

If A daughter, Odile, was born to Mme. and M. Jean-Francois Lejeune, of Papeete, on August 24. M.

Lejeune is a well known and popular notary.

After unfavourable weather in June-July, divers at Manihiki. Cook Is., were busy in the lagoon in August. In 5 days one skin-diver and his two assistants produced five sacks of cleaned shell, netting them about £55. Six good pearls of not less than 3 carats each were also brought up in the first half of August.