"Sir Beaumont "

Ng’S New

Night

Lapua-New Guinea’S New

knight, Chief Justice F. B.

Phillips, has elected to use his :ond Christian name and to be led Sir Beaumont Phillips. month, after the New Year nours were announced, news pers—including PlM—jumped to iclusions and called him Sir jderick. i short ceremony, unique in the

ory of Papua-New Guinea, took :e in the Supreme Court in Port esby on January 11. special sitting of the Court held to afford the Chief Justice’s iagues in the judiciary, and ibers of the Bar, an opportunity ay tribute to him. be Administrator, Brig. D. M. and, was given a seat on the ch alongside the Territory’s four reme Court judges during the mony. r. Justice Gore, who presided, the packed courtroom that Sir imont’s knighthood was the first erred on a member of the Terri- Supreme Court bench as such e Papua and New Guinea be e Australian dependencies. 3 said, "I am proud that this ?hthood has come to our leader, i pleased because the honour is ly deserved.” r. Justice Gore was supported by Justice Bignold and Mr. Justice y, and then, in turn by 14 mem of the Bar. reply. Sir Beaumontf Phillips he believed the Qyeen, in mring the Chief Justice of the itory, had in mind all members he Bench and that she had nt to “honour us all.”

Sir Beaumont Phillips. —Photo by Papuan Prints.