Jueen Salote of Tonga, who has

n residing in Auckland for some e, returned to Tonga in late iruary. She spent a couple of r s in Suva, as the guest of Sir laid and Lady Garvey, at Gov ment House; and she made a cial visit to the famous Leper ipital at Makogai. She joined the ua, for Nukualofa, at Suva, on iruary 28. * * * [r. Hal Evans, who retired a year from the Papua and New Guinea lie service, where he had been 23 years (mostly with Native lirs), now has joined the Sydney f of Messrs. Morris Hedstrom . He has spent the last year as lyer for the Islands firm, Ventura ding Co. Pty. Ltd., of Sydney.

Manager of the Lae, NG, branch the Commonwealth Bank, Mr. :h Bryant, and his wife, were leave in Australia in February. * * * r Harry Luke, KCMG, who was ernor of Fiji and High Com sioner of the Western Pacific veen 1938 and 1942, arrived in ney in mid-March after visits Fiji and Tonga. He joined the ntes for London on March 18.

Harry is engaged in the com tion of a book, historical and jriptive, for Oxford University ss, on the Territories of the th Pacific. * * * r. John Harrington, Cook Islands ness man, paid a business visit Auckland, Sydney, and Hongkong February, purchasing stock for attractive new retail store which earing completion in Rarotonga. * * * lichael Saufale and Manitete iti, of Western Samoa, car ters, in Auckland in February,

and Mrs. J. C. Burnett, of Wellington, among the passengers in the January [?] ja" from Auckland. Mr. Burnett, lately [?]e staff of the Wellington Boys' College, on his way to take an appointment with Suva Boys' Grammar School. —J. P. Shortall.

each received gaol sentences fines for assaulting an Aucl policeman. * * * Mr. Julian Dashwood, of M Island, has recently been vis Auckland. * * * General G. Fayet, head of P’rench airline, was visit Auckland late February to dii technical problems associated the company’s intention to i: duce DC7C aircraft to the F Auckland route. NZ Civil Avi authorities have declared Whem landing strip as of insuffi strength for DC7C’s.

Mr. Antony Alpers, of the A land Star, who has been kee Cook Islands affairs to the foi New Zealand, is to conduc tutorial class on the Cook Isl under Adult Education at Unive ol Auckland.

Miss Elizabeth Lowndes, of V ingt o n, and Sister Cath< Gillanders, of Auckland, left Zealand in February to join the of the Presbyterian Mission Tangoa, New Hebrides. Miss a Riach, of Waiuku, was to join: mission’s teaching staff at Om New Hebrides.

Passenger in the "Tofua" from Au to Niue Island was Mrs. F. L. Flavell, husband is Education Officer, Niue.

Flavell was in NZ placing her two dau in school.

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Aboard the "Matua" in February wen and Mrs. E. Curtis, returning to Suva leave in NZ. Mr. Curtis is attached PWD engineering branch, Suva.-J. P. S[?]

Mormon choir consisting en y of Pacific islanders sang for Queen Mother at Auckland City icil’s public reception in Feb-

G. Nevill, Resident Com pner of the Cook Islands, lied to New Zealand in an iF transport aircraft in Jan and there was some specula m the Cooks as to whether he I be returning. His term of was to expire in March but had been confirmed ie NZ Government last year, ver, since then there has been inge of Government, lesident Commissioner’s job is r a popular one, least so in ✓ook Islands at their present of development, so the job not be rushed by friends of resent Government.

. L. G. Usher, executive di r of Fiji Times and Herald and publisher of The Fiji Times Shanti Dut, arrived in Sydney /larch 6, from New Zealand plans to return to Fiji in mid h. The publishing and job ing business of Fiji Times & id Ltd. has increased consider

[?] ibly the only British subject holding a [?] ment post in Eastern Samoa is Mr.

McKenney, who returned to Pago Pago the "Matua" in February after vacation He is with the Management Services of the E. Samoa Administration. —J. P. Shortall.

[?]ng bride and bridegroom are the former [?] Sye, and Mr. B. Blackie, after their [?]e at the Taurama Chapel, Port Moresby. —Papuan Prints.

ably in the past two years; and Usher is examining plant usag; other establishments, as a guidl the Fiji Company in purchai necessary new equipment. * * * Mr. T. R. Smith, the new i retary-General of the South Pa Commission, spent the first wee: March in Canberra and Syd dealing with Commission mat: before going on to Noumea to sume the duties of his new 01

Mr. Paul Harricks, who ir many friends during the ten y he spent in Fiji as manager tl for Pan American Airways, has been appointed sales manager PAA in southern New Zealand, t headquarters in Wellington. He been succeeded in Fiji by Mr. I B. Lemdrum, who for several y has represented PAA in New C donia and New Hebrides.

General manager of Tasn Empire Airways, Mr. G. N. Robe* has resigned, his resignation to t effect at the end of May. Said Roberts, “I think 12 years in a executive position of the ain operating business is enough”.

Mr. A. Riechelmann, a leading busines of Tonga, was in Auckland in February, returned to Nukualofa in the "Matua". —J. P. Sho

Major E. Stent and Major R. L. Corn of the Salvation Army, were aboard "Malekula" in February, bound for W[?] New Guinea. But they weren't on the —they were on holiday.

Ir. W. Craig, veteran telegraph ic man of the Pacific, and super mdent of the Auckland cable bion, has retired. Mr. Craig red at Fanning Island and Fiji periods during his 45 years of dee under the Pacific Cable Td and Cable and Wireless Ltd. * * * i. and Mrs. A. T. Wotherspoon daughter Anne returned to New land in January after two years Pitcairn Island, where Mr. herspoon was headmaster of the id’s school of 25 children. * * * alian journalist Sergio Borelli, nng for the Milan newspaper II no, doesn’t let the grass grow ?r his feet. Arriving back in ley in January after a round world Qantas flight that took hours flying time, he promptly off again for New Guinea. “It’s of the last frontiers of the d,” he said in Lae in the middle le month, as he headed for the lands.

sbane teacher Miss Dorothea lens left Brisbane for Fiji in iry to become headmistress of tary’s School, at Labasa. Her teaching experience has ied 12 years in India and four in New Guinea.

John Beaumont, of Sydney, will arrive Moresby in mid-March as AMP Society t inspector for P-NG. He succeeds Mr.

Bourke, who opened the Society's first y agency. Mr. Beaumont holds the rank tenant-commander in the RANR. He has and two young children.

Mr. Hugh H. Hickling, for:' Director of Education in the Is. and Resident Agent of Aihc and more recently a canvass o tor for Wells Organisations Pty* —an organisation which co funds for religious bodies on a mission basis—has resigned td tablish a similar business orgss tion on his own account in.

Zealand. ♦ ♦ ♦ P-NG Police Commissioner,* C. Normoyle, will be in Melbu on March 17 to attend the ai. conference of police commissi for Australia, New Zealand am Pacific.

Mr. Sadaraka Metuakore, Islands student at Victoria versity College, Wellington. NJ successfully completed Stage of a BA Degree and requires one further Stage Three subji complete his degree. He we New Zealand as a scholarship in 1947.

Lae, NG, telephone incp will not be deprived of their ' courteous attention from teles ist Jill Potter following her • riage to Mr. Sevan Murphy it

Mr. and Mrs. J. Sagaitu, returned to Fiji, aboard the "Tofua" in January leave in NZ. Originally of Rotum Sagaitu is attached to the Public Department, Lautoka.

—J. P. S.

Headed north for marriage in Febru[?] Miss M. Scharf, a passenger on the "Mi[?] from Sydney. Her husband-to-be is in [?] New Guinea.

February 21. Mr. and Mrs. 3hy will -make their home in • * ♦ »ne Kilisimasi of Tonga, who shown considerable talent as a il trainee at Central Medical 01. Fiji, has been awarded a arship to take a three year e for a degree in dentistry at nsland University, Australia. • • * [ate Hingano and ’Anitelu i of the Department of Agri re. Tonga, are to undergo il training in forestry in New nd. joining Cook Islands nts who are already training The course is essentially ical and applicable to the Is.

. Judy Tudor, a Pacific Islands ily editor, spent February in Guinea. Having a week to and seeking a rest, she ,ed from Lae to Rabaul by a, visiting Madang, Lom- Lorengau and Kavieng, and )arked at Rabaul to catch a s plane to Port Moresby and arch Legislative Council meet he found herself, instead, at )ttom of a hopeless waiting nd she finally got out of New i by riding an MAL plane :o Kavieng, etc., etc., to Lae, xactly the same route as she •aveiled leisurely by ship. The vocabulary fused when try ) describe the vagaries and hides of travel in New Guinea, ns to be completely Australian aracter—too many would-be igers for the existing facilities. * * * members of the Nauru nolice -Constables Detea and Daniel ; gone to Suva for six months, idy police work there. The s have given them a warm ne. There now are about 4,000 on Nauru, and a police force * * * Zealand’s Island Territories tment could hardly have a better choice than the

[?] manager of Morris Hedstrom and Co. [?] Mr. A. L. Lambourne, was in NZ [?] s wife in February, on holiday. They to W. Samoa in the "Matua". —J. P. Shortall.

ction of Mr. Ronald Thorby as Resident Agent for Aitutaki, k Islands. r. Thorby will have the ; of implementing the govem it’s policy of a general health -housing clean-up of this nd island of the Cooks, r. Thorby proved himself a ible, understanding, and popu resident agent at Atiu where las been stationed for the past n years. j is a keen agriculturalist, many essful projects having been ated at Atiu under his direc- These range from a thriving •estation scheme to the produc and sale to other islands of ms strains of poultry. A num af potentially useful crops have introduced there on an experi tal scale. le name of the new Resident it for Atiu had not been an iced to late February.

. E. R. Fordham, Sydney man of the Rice Growers’ Co-op ye Mills Ltd., was on a visit loumea, Vila and Santo in h. In Noumea he will nego for the re-introduction of alian rice imports to New Cale i. They were stopped because iport cuts from sterling areas, at present New Caledonia’s must come from Saigon—re dly at a dearer price. ♦ * ♦ e world Chief Guide, Lady n-Powell, spent a week in i in March, visiting most of nain centres, including Manus Kavieng. ♦ ♦ * . and Mrs. Roderick Maclean, were married in Sydney on h 12, will live in Fiji. Mr. Mac is the elder son of the late 3. L Maclean, of Rabaul, and [rs. Maclean, now of Sydney, wife was formerly Barbara * * * aeral Manager of Fruit Dis bors Ltd., of NZ, Mr. Ross er, was recently in W. Samoa, ssing with the Administration the growers the future of the >an banana industry.

and Mrs. D. C. Brown, of Rarotonga, stands, were passengers in the Norwegian liner "Bergensfjord" when it reached and in February. — J. P. Shortall.