US Samoan Marines Fly

Home on Leave

HUGE RSD Marine Corps air craft landed at Tafuna airstrip, Eastern Samoa, on March 1, i a detachment of 30 Samoan ■ines home on leave. It is in led that regular detachments be brought by air in future, t party was due April 1 and Id be Army, Navy and more ines. Many are veterans of the ean campaign. party of 14 other Samoans re led home for a brief visit aboard US Coast Guard cutter Plane , which spent about a week in

Pago Pago early April. The vessel was on a round of navigation lights and buoys in the area and carried a crew of 5 officers and 50 men. Sea passages to Pago Pago are scarce from Hawaii and the Samoans were given permission to travel as passengers aboard Planetree. tl Mr. Lewis Marion White, new US Vice-Consul at Noumea, went to New Caledonia from Bogota, Colombia, where he spent three years as Legation third secretary.

Before starting his consular career he was a commercial attache for four years. During the war he served in Algeria, India and China.

ff M. Rene Hoffherr, Governor of New Caledonia, was due to return to Noumea from France in early May. He was to be accompanied by an official of the Ministry of Overseas France.

II The birth of a son to Mr, and Mrs. Robert Gilder-Dixon, Malacca, is reported from Malaya. Mrs.

Gilder-Dixon, who is the only daughter of Mr. H. O. Fletcher, Rabaul, NG, spent her early child hood at Manus and later went to school in Australia. She and her husband visited New Guinea on their way to Malaya last year.

Wedding At

Rabaul

The wedding of Miss Jeanie Seeto and Mr. Ronald Seeto was celebrated in traditional Chinese fashion at the Kuomintang Hall, Rabaul, on March 7. before the New Britain District Com missioner (Mr. J. R.

Foldi). Pictured are (left to right): Mr.

Seeto Chak Loon (bestman), the bride groom and bride, and the bridesmaid, Miss Winnie Choi.

Photo: C. H. Meen.