Editorial Staff

Stuart Inder Joins Editorial Staff

Mr. Stuart Inder, Now A

member of the literary staff of Associated Newspapers Ltd., will join the editorial staff of Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., Syd ney, on November 1, and will give his services especially to Pacific Islands Monthly. He will share editorial responsibility for PIM with Mrs Judy Tudor, who has been

Editor of PIM for the past two years.

Mr. Inder already is a well-known re porter and maga zine writer, and has given considerable attention to Pacific affairs. He was in Papua and New Guinea, for the Australian Broad casting Commission, for two years; and he has been twice in Japan and the Far East, both as a journalist and an Australian service man.

Pacific Publica tions Pty. Ltd., either directly or through various subsidiaries, is re sponsible for the publication of: Pacific I s lands Monthly.

Pacific Islands Year Book.

Handbook of Papua and New Guinea.

The Fiji Times (morning daily).

Shanti Dut (Fiji Indian weekly).

Power Farming and Better Farming Digest (A u s t r alasian monthly).

Power Farming Technical An nual.

Australasian Con fectioner and Restaurant Journal (tech nical monthly).

Australian Baker (technical monthly). and three other old established Aus tralian technical monthly journals.

t Rod fishing in Fiji received an impetus recently when the Governor, Sir Ronald Garvey, handed a cup to Rob Wright, Public Relations photographer, for a suitable com petition. Already there have been animated discussions among fisher men about a set of rules which is shortly to be drawn up. fl The 24 Mianmin natives who were involved in the May River (New Guinea) murders a year ago and subsequently had the death sentence recorded against them have had the sentence commuted to years imprisonment.

t The date of the New Caledoni. elections is set down for Sunds October 6. The people will called upon to elect the fL parliament under the new I Cadre; candidates have till Se tember 15 to make their declai tions and the electoral campai opens September 16. t A RNZAF Sunderland flying-ba based on Laucale Bay, Fiji, recen flew a mercy mission with medii supplies to Kabara Island, miles away. The supplies w< urgently needed for a m suffering from peritonitis.