taff Changes PNG

Native Affairs Dept.

■CONFERENCE of Papua-New feuinea District Commissioners bpened in Port Moresby on pber 31 and was expected to Bnue for several days. be following changes in the De bient of Native Affairs have re ;ly been notified: I H. P. Seale has been appointed pg District Commissioner for ■Eastern Highlands. He will lover when the resignation of present DC, Mr. lan Downs, be fc effective on December 9.

I Seale has been on the Native irs staff at Lae since September, land previously was Assistant Bet Officer at Wau. [the same district, Mr. H. W succeeds Mr. F. P. C. Kaad as District Officer. Mr. Kaad is [on recreation leave. Mr. West been stationed in the Eastern lands since 1951. His last post fas ADO at Kainantu.

I R. I. Skinner is to be Acting let Commissioner for the frn Highlands, succeeding Mr.

I Dishon, who will be the Act pistrict Commissioner for the fal District when he returns [recreation leave next May.

Pending Mr. Skinner’s arrival at Mt. Hagen, the duties of DC are be ing carried out by the Assistant District Officer, Mr. J. R. White.

Mr. H. L. Williams has taken up his new appointment as District Commissioner for the Madang Dis trict. In recent years Mr. Williams has been stationed at Goroka and then Lae.

; Mr. L. F. Brodie, an enterprising young Canadian newspaper man who established the South Pacific Post in 1951, is now residing in Sydney as the representative of a large Ameri can corporation, which supplies equipment to printers. After leaving Port Moresby in 1952, Mr. Brodie engaged in journalism in Britain and United States, and he returned to Sydney several months ago. He was married in November to an Australian nursing sister whom he