Coming of Age
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Academicians to Teach P-NG Public Servants
PAPUA and New Guinea Public Servants should, in the future, be better fitted academically for their jobs—if the Public Service Commissioner gets the kind of men be is advertising for, into the Public Service Institute.
The Institute got under way in Moresby only last April with some night classes; now, if the call is successful it will have three per manent lecturers with University degrees and accountancy qualifica tions, other high academic train ing and ability to teach. Salaries will range from £1,500 to £1,700.
fl Mr. C. A. Adams, Mayor of Lautoka, left Nadi, Fiji, on July 13 to visit Canada, US and the West Indies. Dur ing his absence, Coun cillor Nityanand will act as Mayor of Lautoka.
IT Mrs. Aggie Plowman, after 15 years as charge typiste for the Western Samoa Government, retired from the Public Service in July.
The Rev. Sau Faubula, Tongan missionary, preached during June in Methodist Churches of the Goul burn Circuit, NSW, and gave lectures on his country.
Coming of Age
Mr. Owen Wardrop cut ting the cake on his 21st birthday at Port Moresby on July 17. Mrs. A. War drop, his mother, is beside him.
Many old residents of Papua attended the party. —Photo by Papuan Prints.