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r. Geoffrey Horsfall, who was or Magistrate in Fiji between and 1953, has been appointed dge in Zanzibar. He is at pre judicial Commissioner in the ish Solomons. He was born in ;ralia, called to the Bar in ion, and served the British nial Office in Nigeria and ra Leone. * * * jling from Sydny in July ides, for five months leave in United Kingdom, were Mr. and A. W. Garnett. Mr. Garnett is surer, New Hebrides Con inium Government. * ♦ * r. Carl Jacobson, after some spent in New South Wales, med to his plantation outside iae, New Guinea, on the June 10.
P. W. Dill-Russell, chief of Medical Services and of the i Pacific Health Service, d through Port Moresby in July on his way back home, lad been attending a Health ce meeting in Honiara. He had mber of interesting things to o Port Moresby reporters—in ng so meth i n g about the atic change that has come over Yaws situation since the dis y of antibiotics. Yaws, once lumber-one health problem of native Pacific Islanders, had virtually been wiped out where yaws campaigns (sponsored by Vorld Health Organisation) had conducted.
J. A. van Beuge, special attache for Guinea affairs with the Netherlands sy in Canberra. His recent appointment [?] of the Australian-Netherlands plan for co-operation between their New Guinea [?] ries. Mr. van Beuge has previously been herlands delegate to the South Pacific ssion and has visited the Pacific terri where this photograph was taken.
The retiring Governor of Fiiii Ronald Garvey, KCMG, and Garvey, expect to leave Fit October, and already are eng m a round of farewell ceremco They have been at Governr House since 1952; and they g many years in the South Ps before the war. Sir Ronald reat gubernatorial rank in Bri ti Honduras in 1949.
The Council of Chiefs in Fiji! month said an emotional fare Flattering and appropriate tH were said, on behalf of the CW by Ratu Penaia Ganilau.
The Governor was presented ome valuable Fijian articles—arr others an ancient tanoa (bowll mixing kava), and a walking sa ichly embossed, made from Nam ebony.
The Chiefs also handed to Governor an address, express their loyalty and devotion, w; they asked should be presentee the Queen. His Excellency prom that it would be delivered by 1 in person, at Buckingham Paj
Back to Papua to make a sei; mental journey to the Kokoda T 1 (but this time by car) went Eng? journalist William Courtney, June. He had covered the Af tralians’ retreat and advance aid the trail in 1942 for British nee papers, and was also with the A the next year when the fighti had moved to Morobe.
Miss Weensy Renfrey was a Port Mo June bride. She wed Mr. John McDonall Taurama Chapel, on June 21.
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Exotic shirts, ex-Japan and the Islands, , worn by these happy travellers. Lucky Hr and Tex Foote, who met at the Polyne[?] Association in Sydney. Mr. Foote left Sy[?] soon after and is now in Tahiti.
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tches from the New Guinea were well known during the c war. * * * lan who has been in and out w Guinea for the past 25 years led there again in June. He . D. Williams, who this time to Lae to become Vacuum Company district manager for . Mr. Williams first went to Guinea in 1934. That time it ilso to Lae, for Guinea Air- He transferred to W. R. nter and Co. in 1936, and was with them when he enlisted e AIF. After war service he I Vacuum Oil, went to Rabaul hem, and was later trans l to Port Moresby. He left in 1955 for headquarters in iurne, as sales manager, Pacific Is branch. Now it is back to 'erritory. Mrs. Williams went him. * * * Samuel H. Elbert, Professor cific Languages at the Hawaii rsity, left Honiara by Qantas me 17 after spending over six is in the British Solomon Is protectorate. (Over)
charming bride, shown with her bride- Mr. Burt Jonkergouw, cutting their [?] cake, was Miss Frances Bryant, a nursing sister. They were married in Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Rabaul, Photo: Larry Chin
Professor Elbert, who special in the study of Polynesians, is tempting to trace by language lationships their settlement in Pacific. He has travelled wi( throughout Polynesia and his to the Protectorate will comp his survey.
The greater part of his stay wi spent on Rennell Island, an on lying island to the south of tt main Solomon Group populated Polynesian-type people. There was able to compile a Rennellel Dictionary, He subscribes to the theory tlrl the Polynesians came possibly fro Malaya and travelled by way Indonesia. He is of the opinion thi the outlying islands of the Solemn Group were populated from Wall Island. The idea that South Amern
Mr. Murray Rider, second engineer of well-known Union Co. vessel "Waihemo", Mr. Terepo Rahoi, from Rarotonga—both vi[?] to a Polynesian Assn, party in Sydney centiy. A Jele
High Chief A. P. Laovao, Speaker in House of Representatives in American San who was a member of the Special Indu Committee recently deliberating on wages Pago Pago. The committee has proposed cents per hour for workers in the cannery; not less than 52 for those in petroleum marketing industry; and 40 C[?] in miscellaneous industries. —Pan American Pri
the original home of the nesian Race has now been com ply discounted. Well, that is t Professor Elbert reckons, any * * * rs. Ellen McGrath, a Papua timer, has been residing at St. a, Brisbane, with her daughter, Mick Healey, wife of the rict Commissioner at Kavieng, Guinea. She is in poor health. * * ♦ r. Tom Farelly and Miss reen Elliott met and became iged in Port Moresby, but they elled about 2,000 miles to dulla, on the NSW South Coast, be married from the bride’s ler home. The happy event place in June. They will re to Port Moresby to live. * * * iking his first visit to New lea end of June, was Mr. T. h, Secretary-General of the h Pacific Commission. He ?d Rabaul to inspect the ities at the site of the fourth h Pacific Conference which is e held there next year. (The lous three were held in Suva, ;, and Noumea). * * * P’s visiting New Guinea in -July were thick as copra es. Just three of them: Aus m Minister for Labour and mal Service, Mr. Harold Holt, was making his first visit; the Commissioner for Pakistan, :.-General Mohammed Yousuf, for the first time; and Sir p Mcßride, for whom it was id time round. The Ministers that their visit was so that could “follow more realistically Dsals put forward for the opment of the country during ag meetings of Cabinet”. * * * s. M. T. V. Head, of Niue d, was awarded the MBE in
recent Birthday Honours for
services to Education”. * * ♦ . W. C. Groves, who has been iated with New Guinea for r years, and since the resump-
V. Harris was married to Mr. A. Heath Roman Catholic Church, Port Moresby, ne 6. —Papuan Prints Photo..
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Director of Education, retires Australia in August. At the Jtu meeting of the P-NG Legislati Council, occasion was taken to pc tribute to the very valuable con munity work of Mr. Groves. I t ll an official member of V Jr-NG Legco since its inaugurate
Former District officials of Papu were interested in the recer announcement that Mr. Alwyn ' Watkins had been selected j Liberal candidate for the Feder seat of Newcastle.
Mr. Watkins was in the Fapuas public service prior to World Ws ll—he was ARM at Buna Bay i 1940. He was a son of Davr Watkins, MP. Former colleague recall that he once pointed to hr baby son and said: “There goes tli future member of Newcastle is an hereditary seat, you know”. , David Watkins, a Labour stalwan held the Newcastle seat from tW inauguration of the Commonwealtt until 1935. His son, David Olive Watkins, also Labour, followed on David now is retiring from Parlis ment, and the Newcastle Labour people have selected as their candii date Aid. C. K. Jones, a form© Newcastle Mayor.
But Alwyn Watkins—“ Buddy” tt his friends—feels that the family\ political record is in danger o slipping—so he goes in to Newcastl to oppose Alderman Jones, as .
Mr. and Mrs. Cedric Hulse after th[?] marriage in the Roman Catholic Church, P Moresby, on June 20. The bride was forme Miss Paula Maher. Papuan Prints Pho
Mr. and Mrs. K. Baldwin after theis marriage at the Ela Beach Church, Po[?] Moresby, at end of May. The bride wa[?] formerly Miss V. Eedla. Papuan Prints Phot[?]
:al candidate. His chances are rated high. * * * e Venerable H. Mayo Harris been appointed Archdeacon of •aki, Auckland, and vicar of nport. Ordained in 1927, he me Archdeacon of Fiji and r-General of the Diocese of nesia in 1934. During the he served as an officer in the N and at the conclusion hostilities became a naval lain. In 1949 he received the * * * -Ministers of a Pacific Islanders :regational Church, erected by islanders, and opened recently 'okoroa, the centre of the NZ and paper industry, are the R. L. Challis, of Auckland, the Rev. L. I. Sio. ♦ * * ss Rachael Leighton, matron of TB and leprosy hospital on o Is., Port Moresby, since left Auckland in May, to con- J her year’s furough in her native lania. She is using her leave n opportunity to make known work of Papuan missionaries, had visited both islands of NZ. 10 Hospital, a Government ital, staffed and run by the on Missionary Society, is self lined, with a church and )D. •: * * Rev. S. G. Andrews, who was ?ed in Methodist Mission work iji for 20 years, and who sub ntly was secretary of Methodist gn Missions Board in NZ, has acting as Chairman of the odist Solomon Islands District ?cent months. The Rev. J. F.
[?] Fay Jones was recently married at the of England, Rabaul, to Mr. Selwyn e. They are shown here with her [?]-of-hcnour, Mrs. Joyce Lambert.
Photo: Larry Chin
t ' § v ' ■- an; <-| Metcalfe, who retired from Solomons early this year owin§ ill-health, and relinquished Chairmanship, is now living in toria. * * * For the first time for six y 1 there is a Fijian Assistant Supe; tendent of Police in Fiji. He Josefata Kuboutawa, 29, who as spector Josefata, recently retun from six months training at Metropolitan Police Training ColJ at Hendon, near London. Assist Superintendent Josefata’s prog; through the Fiji Police Force been phenomenal. He enlisted o in 1947 and has risen from ranks. During his six months! the UK, he did a course of o training at the Guard’s Train Depot in Surrey. There he had distinction of being the only allowed on parade without he; gear He has “big hair”, and thai headgear enough.
Mr. M. D. I. Gass, who until cently was Permanent the Minister of Interior, Ghana, 1 who now has been appointed Chi Secretary of the Western Pac;; High Commission, is expected arrive in Honiara in August to ts up his new duties. Mr. R. J. Minni whom he succeeds, has now react!
England with his family and is ts ing his pre-retirement leave, spent 23 years in the Colonial Stc vice—the last half-dozen in t Solomons, but the rest of them Hongkong (including four years internment in Japanese handt Residents of the Solomons ax other of the WPHC Territories we sorry to see the Minnitts go, b wish them well in their new lifes ♦ * « British Judge of the New Hebrio Condominium Joint Court, J.
Brownlees, left Vila after a two yes; term, at the end of May, but 1 successor, Judge C. F. Macaskie, 6 not arrive until July—he had goc first to Fiji to sit at the Fiji Cou of Appeals. Judge Macaskie w f hold the NH appointment om until a permanent Judge is recruits.
He performed a similar service fi
Mr. Fred Hennings, of Suva, Fiji, wit friend. Miss Rita Young, at a recent gathe in Sydney of the Polynesian Society.
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New Hebrides on another ion—in 1955. * * * ;ting plenty of attention in on in June were a 6 ft 5 in. i chief, his wife and their two daughters. He was Ratu sese Mara, She is Adi Lala, and two daughters, aged six and are Adi Ateca and Adi Koila.
Mara, a District Commissioner ji, is on leave and is showing unily the United Kingdom. It 4.di Ateca who last February, true Fijian grace and dignity, ited the bouquet to the Queen er when she passed through on her way to Australasia. * * * Lynn Wilson, from “back of ng”, has been enjoying a spell ave in Brisbane. He is a Zealander, but has been so long pua and New Guinea that he accepted New Guineaite. ♦ * * Hobart Spiller, a planter well i on the northeast coast of i—his place is Menapi—has a good recovery from a severe ;al operation. He is con ing in North Queensland, and nplates a visit to Europe, and 11 on the Riviera, later this * * * George Christie, well known Australian Territories, is back otland again. He visits his ■ heath every 3 or 4 years. * ♦ * mg Territories folk enjoying in North Queensland at it is Mr. Bill Bellingham, a r Papua planter. Maybe not rmer”—he retains his interest nail Koitaki”, a private rubber ition which, rumour says, i pays less than 40 cent.
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Parkin Christian, 73-years-old resident of n Island, meets a guard at the US in Washington. Christian was a dele o the 48th world conference of Seventh dventists which began in Cleveland, Ohio, l-June.
The German Minister to New Zealand, Dr. Noehring, has just paid a mid-winter visit to Western Samoa. * * * Mr. N. C. Kelly who has been appointed to succeed Mr. E R Wmkel as Attorney-General of the Western Samoan Government, has arrived at Apia by plane to begin his new duties. * * * Mr. J. H. Donaldson who has been Headmaster of Samoa College since 1956, has left Western Samoa with his family for England where he will undertake educational re search work before returning to New Zealand. He did a great deal to improve facilities at the College and the standard of education during his two-years’ term, and residents were reluctant to see him go. * * * Recently the first prize ticket holder in an interstate consulta tion (we aren’t allowed to say which one, because it is illegal in g i ven as K - B - ftehder, fost Office, Samarai, Papua The amount was £7,000. * * * n A i^ an * a big heart is Brigadier A. E. Brown, Secretary- General of the Imperial War Graves Commission, Anzac Agency. When he was in Papua-New Guinea re recently, inspecting war cemeteries at Bomanji, Lae and Bita Paka he undertook to inspect any grave or memorial for the next of kin of any Australian serviceman buried h h6r %h a it d t 0 £ u ™ ish a report on That could be a tall order.
There are over 8,000 graves in the n^L Ce ? leter - es ’ plus hundreds of names of servicemen who lost their lives m the Territory but have no known place of burial. * * * .After a n absence of 26 vears Mr. « 7oh o Vivian Wood, of the Bank £d S ? th Wale *’ with his wi te returned some weeks ago to tho Morobe District, NG, as Manager of the Bank’s Lae branch, it was his intention to arrive about the same time as the new bank building The 8 e°v P ent ed ’ bUt he got b eforl to 1 f932 W an/w a i a '5 aUa from 1929 10 and has had an interesting time meeting again the old S During his absence from the Terri tory he was a very busy man and
had appointments at Melbourne and Brisbane as Foreign Exchange oS Cer ’ A a i ld - seven years in Head Office Administration at Sydney where he was Assistant to the City a? S fn£ tor n pri - or to. his appointment at Lae. During his term in Mel bourne he spent two months abroad Pakistfn th r B f nk ’ s agents in India, Pakistan, Ceylon and Singapore. - urin g his stay in Brisbane he took an active interest in the Com naferAuitr 1 ? 81,11^ 6 of Acc ountants tants) A fln i c lan Society of Accoun- Presidem and aTJ term as state Also, he was for thrpp rS T. par^time in Banking ?ersifv° r S g^Exch f nge afc Uni! nf Queensland; and is co vf th e standard text book Australian Banking”. He was a member of Rostrum Clubs in thl three eastern Australian cities—and cmVMe' 16 * the active Recreations have been swimming graduated to bowls and Wednesriav afternoon appointments are Tent the Lae Bowling club, P 1