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tu Sir Lala Sukuna, and his Lady Liku, left Suva on May n an extended holiday abroad; they sailed from Sydney by the iian, for London, a few days They were entertained, in ey, by various friends. Sir Sukuna has not been in good h for some time, and he id from the Speakership of the Legislative Council on April 22, hich day he was 70 years old. * * ♦ ►fessor Harvey B. Franklin, re y retired from Long Beach College, Southern California, n Auckland in April preparing i visit to the Cook Islands, ssor Franklin is interested in tudy of Polynesian migrations.

:her-General of the Order of Sisters of the Sacred Heart, sr Agnalla, with her assistant, Clarita, made a flying visit Rome to the missions in New ;a in April. Mother Agnalla German, and Sister Clarita an ican. ♦ ♦ * John Cumpston, whose term stralian Consul in New Cale ended last year, has joined

new Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Lowe, [?]e oath of office in Suva on April 16. a New Zealander, who before the war gal secretary in Tonga for a period, the war he has been in Kenya, and Malta, where he became Acting-Governor Colony. For the last four and a half [?]e has been a judge in Tanganyika. —Fiji PRO.

the headquarters staff of the i. tralian Department of Extes Affairs, in Canberra. His posi is one in which he should be to give the Department the bei of his special knowledge of Islands Territories of the So Pacific—especially the south-' Pacific.

Mr. John Wilson, a director general executive of the R« Commonwealth Society for Blind, was campaigning in I Zealand for assistance for the hi in the Islands in April. Mr. WilJ himself blind since he was 13, i one per cent, of the population Fiji is blind or sufficiently flicted in vision to require finair aid and special training.

Mr. H. W. Davidson, MBE, * has been Finance Secretary to Government of Fiji since ej 1952, has been promoted to the I of Finance Secretary to the Govo ment of North Borneo, probably will leave Fiji in £2 tember to spend leave in Briii before proceeding to his new n

Bound from Auckland to Suva in Apr visit their son, Captain S. D. Harris, ot Fiji Military Forces, were Mr. and Mn V. Harris. Mr. Harris recently retired the position of supervising technician, and Telegraphs Department, Auckland. —J. P. Sho

Mr. R. B. Gautam, of the Audit Departil Suva, returned to Suva on the "Tofuae April after making his first holiday vise New Zealand. —J. P. Sho[?]

has acted on occasion in Fiji Colonial Secretary and Gov »r’s Deputy. He and his wife held in considerable esteem in Colony. iJ* •{• •(• rs. E. Danielsen Craig—better m in the Cook Is. simply as Danielsen —who went to Raro a with a companion to estab the Bahai religion five years has been transferred to For i for a five-year period. Mrs. ielsen was very popular with ections of the Rarotonga com ity. One of the surprises of her ;hed native - style home at angiia was an electronic organ b she imported and then ted to play by mail-order.

. J. A. Van Beuge has been inted special attache for New ea affairs with the Netherlands issy in Canberra. His appoint follows the agreement made year between the Australian Dutch Governments for closer n between the territories. ♦ * ♦ G. Nevill, Resident Commis r of the Cook Islands, returned arotonga in April after fur and discussions in New nd with the Department of i Territories. * » * J. B. Wright, lately NZ tary of Island Territories at ngton, retired from govern service on April 3, after 32 Following junior positions arotonga, Apia, and Niue, Mr.

[?]in Holland, Dr. J. van Baal, Governor [?]herlands New Guinea for the five years [?]March 31, called on the Dutch Prime [?]r, Dr. W. Drees, at The Hague at the [?]f April, for a final talk. The new [?]or. Dr. P. J. Platteel, will arrive in [?]ia about June 15.

Wright became treasurer, Islands, in 1940, and transfers a similar post at Apia in 1945 On the retirement of Mr. B G. Patrick, in 1952, Mr. Wright appointed to the position whic; now vacates.

A successor had not been ns. to the end of April, but Mr. „ McEwen, formerly Resident 0 missioner, Niue, and lately s cant secretary, has been appo< acting-secretary. His appoint; would be generally popular in Islands where he has shown self to be keenly interested in people and has a good mastei the Cook Islands and Niue diaj

Mr. Pat Costello, well-kn Fiji merchant and company di tor, who died last year, left an tate valued for probate at £Bt After making provision for widow, Mrs. Mary Catherine tello, he left his property toe daughter (Mrs. Margaret Bra: Wellington, NZ) and her chib

Mr. George Vailena, a well-known r[?] of Tongatapu, returned to Nukualofa i[?] "Tofua" in April after several mont[?] Auckland. —J. p. Sh[?]

Mr. R. C. Niederholzer, graduate o[?] University of California, travelled to Rar[?] in April to carry out a research projec[?] youth education there, particularly the to which the youth of the island are ticipating in community affairs. The at Rarotonga are at an interesting sta[?] social development, the island is not t[?] accessible—the local archives are in E[?] the local people speak it, thus greatly fa[?] ing research.

—J. P. Sh[?]

e seventh Silver Acorn ever 0 to an Australian was pre d to Mr. W. C. Groves in Port sby on April 20. Mr. Groves Territory’s Director of Edu i) is P-NG’s Chief Scout nissioner and the Silver 1 is Spouting’s second highest 3. Giving it is the prerogative le World Chief Scout, Lord llan. Mr. Groves has per *d the difficult job of building le Scout movement in P-NG )00 members—all in the post II period. That is why he has is Silver Acorn.

i tradition of West Australians ustralian Territory posts con > with the appointment of Preston White to the Ad tratorship of Nauru (an ;ed April PIM). He was for a DC in P-NG. Mr. Preston ‘ follows Mr. R. S. Leydin who ids West Australian Brigadier Norman as Administrator of Ik Island. Yet another West t is Brigadier D. M. Cleland, inistrator of Papua-New Ja—and so of course, is Aus

[?] C. Jervis, supervising teacher of Infant [?]d in the Fiji Department of Education, ed to Suva in the "Tofua" in April vacation at home in New Zealand. —J. P. Shortall.

F. A. Allen, CSR mill manager at Lau nd Mrs. Allen were also April travellers fua", returning to Fiji after leave in ealand. —J. P. Shortall.

tialian Minister of Territories luck.

Mr. Preston White will take his new job in June. He waj leave in Perth in May.

A Seventh Day Adventist n Pastor, Kila Glama, left Moresby by air on April 17 to 1 an air journey to the United S —the first of his race to trav America. He will attend an conference of world leaders oj church at Cleveland, Ohio, then lecture in 18 States Canada. Pastor Glama has rec been in charge of SDA mi work in the Western Distrio Papua.

In Melbourne Vic., in Majj popular New Caledonian, M. , Brock, Qantas agent in Noc Reason for his Victorian visit pick up and take home his i new son (the third) and .

Brock, who is a Melbourne gi?

Mr. F. Barlow returned to Port More[?] the "Malaita". Mr. Barlow had just corr six months leave, and spent most of the UK.

Navua-bound in the "Tofua" in Apri Mrs. L Genge and grand-daughter CH who had gone south for hospital tr[?] at Auckland and had undergone a su[?] operation.

—J. P. S

. Stuart Inder, co-editor of the lc Islands Monthly, leaves ey for Suva this month, where ill act as relief editor, for two hs, of The Fiji Times. Mr. Tom iaig, formerly of the staff of Daily Telegraph, Sydney, who seen editor of The Fiji Times 1956, is leaving Suva in May ke up a newspaper position in lulu.

,1-known Dutch author, J. P. n Eechoud, formerly a District lissioner Netherlands’ New Ja, returned to Hollandia for r ate visit recently after an ab -3 of eight years. Mr. van oild wrote, among other books, tten Territory, With Cleaver Compass, and God’s Bushran which all have New Guinea rounds. (Over)

a Polynesian Association get-together in [?]y in April were Mrs. Evelyn Foster, of [?]a, and Miss Rita Fare, of Suva, with ctor Brial, of Uea, Wallis Island. —Tele-Photos.

[?] of Police of American Samoa, High [?]Letuli, was at Laie, Oahu, Hawaii, in [?]among a party of distinguished visitors, [?]y, see page 117. —Jeanne Booth Johnson.

Cocktails for friends at the tr of Mr. and Mrs. R. Muller of New Guinea, followed the ta* of Australian citizenship, on A 24, by Mrs. Muller, a former : lander. The ceremony of naturai tion was conducted by the Moc Magistrate, Sir Colman O’LogK Australians—and all Britishers* that matter—usually fail to preciate the significance of nr ralisation in the lives of the Australians. It is no light ms to renounce the land of one’s W and swear allegiance to anoc country.

Mr. D. S. Carver, previously 1 countant for the British Soloc Islands Trading Corporation resigned to become secretary/msj ger of the BSIP Copra Boan position that has been vacantd some time. He will take up his duties on July 1. * * * Lord Carrington, High Comr sioner for the UK in Austid spent 10 days in Papua-- Guinea, from May 7—and crea two firsts in so doing; He is i first UK High Commissioner! visit the Territory, and he is < first VIP to go north in the Visiting Season. We can exx many more, as winter draws on * * * The European population of New Guinea, is roughly 1,800 adb and more than 600 children —wv is not a bad effort for a small tt —and now they are coming in pq Well-known chemist, Mr.

Worrall, was walking on air n cently when his wife presented J with twin girls. (At the Euroflc Hospital, on May 3). The Woo already have two sons.

Twins were also born to i

One of the best-known faces in the P[?] that of Bob Hewlett, of the Fiji Vi[?] Bureau, is off to Singapore where he I new publicity job. For details, see page[?]

ector and Mrs. W. B. Hooper, only one child, a girl, survived.

Hoopers now have four :hters.

Australia to study Australian nistrative court procedure as !St of the NSW Department of 3e is James McConnachie, li’s police chief. He will be ning in June. * * * Harry Storer, of Vavau, a, has been visiting Fiji for :al treatment.

Guinea native in the news in April O-year-old Alois Aovi, of Bubia agri experimental station, near Lae, a 5/assistant entomologist, who won £5,000 Australian lottery—his first ticket. Story [?] 15. —P. Robertson.

Caledonian native in the news in April [?]vid Diake, 28-year-old former pastor, [?]la, on the east coast of New Caledonia, [?]s busily preparing an exhibition of his [?]ntings, some of which have already interest. Story on page 19. —F. Dunn.