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Uthough no official announce >nt had been made in early April, seemed likely that P-NG’s native nned Pacific Islands Regiment, i reputation a little bent follow- I riots last year, was to have a v second-in-command Major n Barrett, Rabaul planter, ex .C, and popular man-about-town. is experienced and highly

ipetent at handling native

)ps, and would also act as iser for the Army and Admini ition. * * * he Centre Admiral J. Evenou lortly to take over from Admiral louse Lautrec as commander of French Naval Forces in the ific. Admiral Lautrec, aboard the *icis Gamier, made an official to New Zealand in March.

Gordon Taylor made a re i address about his Frigate U I flying boat cruises while at iki, Cl, in mid-February. It e used over Rarotonga Radio. * * * nan with seven children, Mr. tel Toki, 35, has been ap- : d h . ead teacher, Mauke i. Cl, in succession to the late h Kimiangatau. (Over)

some Dane, Henning Pedersen, assistant [?]r with the Commonwealth Department [?]ks at Lae, NG, became a naturalised [?]an in a ceremony in Lae, on March 7. [?]ate Sir Colman O'Loghlen conducted the [?]y, and Morobe District Commissioner [?]R. Niall welcomed Mr. Pedersen as an an citizen. Said Mr. Pedersen, "All the [?] have been in these parts, I've been royally".

Mr. Don Graeme Kelley, e<; of the American magazine Pm Discovery, and Mr. Haroldf Coolidge, Director of the Pa Science Board of the US Natii Academy of Science, Washing.

DC, spent most of March in , tralia, and thence went on to Zealand. Means of giving the mi zine a wider appeal to Australae readers were investigated.

Coolidge was for some timi member of the Research Couna the South Pacific Commission., hopes to attend the Fourth S< Pacific Conference at Rabaui April, 1959.

A German journalist-pM grapher, Mr. Gunther Cotter, wi visiting various Pacific territoriu the next few months on a ro commission for the West Gen newspaper, Westdeutsche Allgem Zeitung, published in Essen.

Cotter first went to Australii cover the Olympic Games, stayed on. He intends visiting?

New Hebrides, New Caledonia, W. Samoa, the Cooks and Tahi ❖ ❖ * Mrs. Ray Stuart, of Oro Papua, and her two children.] turned to the Territory on Malaita in March after t months leave in Australia.

Stuart, who conducts a trade at Oro Bay, flew back earlier. ,

The Rev. H W. Figgess, Rector o[?] Anglican Cathedral, Suva, returned from [?] tion in New Zealand with Mrs. Figges[?] sons John, Paul, Nicholas, and William, [?] ling per March "Tofua" from Auckland.

—J. P. Sh[?]

After a "refresher" course and three [?] leave in NZ, Father Espagne, of the C[?] Mission, left Sydney on the March "[?] for Honiara. Father Espagne has served[?] 12 years altogether in the Islands.

Colin Thwaites, of Port Moresby, is on leave in Sydney in March, eparatory to going to Lae, NG, icre he will edit the New Guinea nirier, scheduled to begin publi tion in June. The new paper, like s Port Moresby South Pacific Post d the Rabaul Times, will be inted at the Post’s Port Moresby inting office; and flown to Lae. * * * Pwo Fiji trades union officials, . Neman! Waka, secretary of the i Mine Workers’ Association, and . Mohamed Ramzan, general retary of the Public Works De tment Employees’ Union, have n awarded bursaries for a three nths’ study of British trades ons. The bursaries were awarded the British Council. * * ♦ igar smoking is an everyday oc ation for Lae (NG) Customs at, John McKennariety, but n his wife presented him with aughter on March 27, he began ving them with excitement. sfc ■%. eaded for leave, Territory-born ) Bill Driver, and family, were ird Sinkiang when it sailed for aey from Lae in March. Bill er is grandson of the late Mrs. ibeth Mahoney, known during long years in Papua as “The m of Sudest”.

Wimberley, a principal of a ulu firm of architects, Wim and Cooke, has been visiting te in connection with the erec )f a new hotel for Spencecliff a Honolulu hotel and res it company directed by mil re Spencer Weaver. It’s re l that Mr. Weaver’s company r .also be interested in buying amball Catalina that’s been about the Pacific lately (see 37) ' (Over)

[?] ess Mata'aho of Tonga and her daughter [?] returned to Nukualofa aboard the [?] in March after spending some time kland. — J. P. Shortall.

Mrs. Frederic L. Fish, of N« Jersey, USA, has been visiting t£ Pacific. At Nadi, Fiji, she stays with a sister, Mrs. Bob Paterso and in Lae, NG, with her brotlr and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Ten Powell, who are old Territorial The Powell’s son, Michael, aE companied his aunt back to Br;’ bane on the plane, where he is doi;i second year Medicine. He learnr there that he had been granted!

Commonwealth scholarship.

In Melbourne for a police cg ference, P-NG Police Commission Mr, C. Normoyle, called in at R Cross Headquarters and was phon graphed holding a NG native drr with National Red Cross Commr sioner Mr. A. G. Brown. Mr. No’ moyle is president of the NG bran of the Red Cross.

To succeed M. Jean Franoi Toby who has been Governor i French Polynesia since SeptemTx 1954, M. Camille Bailly arrived £ Papeete by air from France « March.

Outward bound from Auckland in "Tofua" in March: Nurse M. Singh, of returning home after five years of nursing[?] New Zealand hospitals; and Mr. T. Heimuli son, David, returning to Nukualofa, wh[?] Mr. Heimuli is Registrar of the Supreme Co of Tonga. —J. P. Short

Homeward bound for Apia in the M[?] "Tofua" from Auckland, after vacation in[?] were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Adams, Sally, Terese. Mr. Adams is secretary of J. M.[?] Chong and Co. —J. P. Shone[?]

he New Zealand Government appointed Mr. R. B. Tennent, tctor-General of Agriculture, to iced Mr. C. M. Richwhite, as r Zealand member of the British sphate Commission, as from 11 1. He will also be member for Christmas Island Phosphate [mission (Indian Ocean).

Graham Evans, who was on iff of the Colonial Sugar Re- Co., Ltd., at Labasa and Fiji, and who left Fiji last low is a resident of Sudburg, o, Canada. He is employed by nadian Creosote and Timber ny. His father, Mr. W. G. who also was a CSR man, with the Rural Bank, at >y, NSW. (Over)

Alec Haworth, formerly of Robert Gil [?]pty., Ltd., who left Sydney about a [?]o to live in retirement in Tahiti, re [?]to Sydney on the "Orcades" and will [?]e in Mosman. Mr. Haworth had been [?] few months in Papeete when he de filaria and on medical advice went [?]ust to Suva, where this disease is not [?]t. In Suva he did some preliminary [?]launching Robert Gillespie (Fiji), Ltd., [?]ered two heart attacks and had to go [?]tal each time. He then decided to go Sydney, where old friends will be glad [?]im again—but will be sorry to learn idyllic South Sea islands retirement dogged by ill luck.

[?] Mrs A Ardilly, left Sydney on the [?] for Vila in March where they hope Mr. Ardilly was in the Islands for [?]s during the war.

Mrs. Aggie Grey, well-known popular hotel hostess of A£ Western Samoa, underwent operation in the Mater Misericoro Hospital, Auckland, in mid-Mae At the end of the month she reported to be making satisfacc progress.

Mr. Charles McPhee, the nu Pacific landscape and portrait pa ter now resident in Auckland, been commissioned by Papeete to nessman Darryl Shields to pain series of Polynesian designs for: on pareu (sarong) material, first few of the series have alre' been used in the manufacture oft material in France and are ax, able in Tahiti where Mr. Shij holds the sole rights at preset One of Mr. McPhee’s Ts' paintings was on display at Auckland Society of Arts exhitaii in March-April.

Melbourne newspapers in Mt were fascinated by smiling I Willy, ship’s cook aboard Damadora - Del - Mar, trading ? tween Noumea and Sydney, anoj only woman crew member. Thes called in at Melbourne for a o of flour, and Lucie happily otd for a photograph among her and pans.

Coping with the problem rearing two small boys at Vaa

Mr. W. Gillett (left) returned to [?] Moresby on the March "Malaita" after[?] in Queensland and NSW. Mr. A. Fish[?] clerk with the Administration, spent his [?] mostly in NSW.

Miss Nanette O'Connor, of Port [?] was also on the March "Malaita"..[?] O'Connor, who has been working in the[?] for the last six years, spent four month[?] in New Zealand.

rth-west NG, with food flown the 1 miles from Wewak, nowhere to and patrol officer husband, John, ■quently away on patrol, Judith jkine told a perambulating news per reporter from Australia, jople down south fail to realise it it’s not a paradise up here”. * * ♦ Jr. and Mrs. George Pike and ir four young children got back Lae, NG, in March, somewhat nkfully after a vacation in Aus lia. They were at Leura, NSW, ;n bushfires practically destroyed town —including their holiday :age.

W. L. Conroy, chief of the ision division of the NG De ment of Agriculture, recently ?d the University of New and, NSW, to see if training he agricultural faculties there itable for graduates who intend ing in P-NG. He reported that training could be used to ad age.

B. B. Schaffer, director of *ublic Administration course at university of Queensland, ex

[?]minent Port Moresby guide worker, Mrs. a Price, was presented with a Medal of by the world Chief Guide, Lady Baden [?], in Port Moresby in March. —Papuan Prints.

and Mrs. E. J. Reid and Louisa returned [?] in the "Tofua" in March after holiday- New Zealand. —J. P. Shortall.

pects to visit P-NG in May, to < cuss plans for courses best sv for P-NG students, quite a nun of whom study with the univee by correspondence.

Hs * * Passengers travelling to the ♦ Islands in the first 1958 voyag Maui Pomare from Auckland! eluded Mr. Sam Bennett of A Donald & Co., Ltd., Auckland;; A. S. Wallace, medical olficef health at Auckland to organii public health service and thea tablishment of the new leprosai at Aitutaki; and Mr. Alf Bs head of Cook Is. Lands & Su Dept., and Mrs. Bailey, retun from leave.

Mr. K. M. Sleight, who was s tary to Resident Commiss Judge H. F. Ayson in the Islands from 1923 to 1928, and: has been secretary successivee the last four New Zealand I Ministers, retired from the H Service in March. * * * Representatives of the vs’

Pacific meteorological organise; are meeting at Manila in Ape the south-west Pacific reg; meeting of the World Meteoro cal Organisation. Dr. M. a Barnett is representing the Zealand Meteorological Se< which controls the area from Gilberts to the Antarctic and. to the Cooks. * * * Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Willsl Auckland aboard the March Pomare bound for Rarofrc where Mr. Wills was taking u appointment as manager, im Cook Islands for A. B. DonaloJ

Mr. Sevan Murphy, and his bride, fo[?] Mrs. Jill Potter, after their marriage [?] NG, recently.

Ltd. Mr. and Mrs. Wills are U known in the Islands. He was merly with Morris Hedstrom and , in Western Samoa, and was »r manager of Walter Horne and , Ltd., at Suva. He succeeds Mr. irce at Rarotonga.

ark Johnson, 17-years-old son Jr. and Mrs. W. G. Johnson of a, Fiji, has been awarded a ►larship under the Australian rnational Scheme and has red Melbourne University to y Law. The scholarship carries l it a living allowance of £560 year, all tuition fees and fares and from Fiji. Mark was a iant pupil at Suva Boys’ Gram- School where he received his iary and secondary education.

i old identity of the late ities and early thirties in the t. Capt. Ludwig Klugkist, who an officer on the Bremerhaven h traded with outports of the itory from 1929 and onwards, ’ed in Sydney in April as master he NDL freighter triple-screw lenstein from Hamburg. He met ral of his old <TNG acquaint s, though many others have 5d oh.

[?]nese calligraphist Wan Wing-Sum, of [?]l, with New Britain District Commissioner Foldi, who opened Mr. Wing-Sum's ex on of Chinese art in Rabaul recently. were delicately tinted paintings of [?]rs, plants, butterflies and other insects, [?]inely executed examples of Chinese script. —C. H. Meen.

W. H. Briggs was on the "Bulolo" for [?] in March, to rejoin her husband, [?]er of the Burns Philp Londip Plantation, recuperating in NSW from a recent ill- Mr. and Mrs. Briggs have been in the [?]s since 1925.