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Although there has been no official announcement, Britain’s next consul and adviser to the Govern ment of Tonga will be Mr. Q.
Weston, at present Commissioner for the Eastern District of Fiji. He will take over, probably next March, from Mr. A. C. Reid, who is headed for a new position in Fiji. Mr.
Weston is a popular Commissioner, with a reputation for getting things done. He will be missed at Levuka, where he is at present stationed.
Mr. Weston has a wife and young family.
Dr. D. S. Marshall, American anthropologist, left the Cook Islands for Tahiti, Fiji and Honolulu, in July. In Honolulu he Will take up an appointment at the Bishop Museum.
Dr. Marshall, well-known in the Cook Group through his previous jjsrts, travelled with his wife and cnudren to Mangaia in November last year. During his months in Mangaia he completed a Maori dictionary and studied the life and customs of the people, paying particular attention to the Mangaia leadership UCtUr6 &nd present da y * * * m ß e distant Resident Com ttussioner New Hebrides, Mr. T R £ as h ? en a PP oin ted Second Po!: l h Commissioner on the South faomc Commission. Mr. Cowell follows Mr. H H. Vaskess who re cent!y retired from that post. r ; C 9 well has progressed through Hith r n nks ? f .the Western Pacific mgh Commission from his appoint
Visiting Suva in July was Mr. Jack C Tobin vice-president of Hawaiian Airlines, of Honolulu, seen here at a TEAL party with Suva travel man, Harvey Hunt (right). Hawaiian Airlines is considering putting through a weekly air service from Honolulu to Bora Bora.
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ment as a cadet in 1941. Promoted to District Officer Ellice Islands and then District Officer Gilbert Islands, an appointment as Secretary to the Government Gilbert & Ellice Islands Colony followed in 1951. He became Administrative Officer Class A in the New Hebrides, in 1953 and in 1954, Assistant Resident Com missioner of the Condominium. * * * Mr. C. H. Allan, Secretary of Protectorate Affairs in the BSIP has been appointed to replace Mr.
T. R. Cowell as Assistant Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides.
During Mr. Allan’s 13 years in the Protectorate he has been either District Officer or District Com missioner in the Western, Malaita, and Central districts.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hamlyn-Harri.T and their five children plan toi return to Australia from Tonga ini November. Mr. Hamlyn-Harris hais been Crown Solicitor in Tonga. * * * The Rt. Rev. L. S. Kempthorner Anglican Bishop in Polynesia, whiclo is the largest Anglican diocese iii the world, received the degree oo Doctor of Divinity (Lambeth) oio July 29.
Bishop Kempthorne, who is as present in England where he hasi been attending the Lambeth Conrn ference, was given the degree bd the Archbishop of Canterbury, D:C Geoffrey Fisher, in recognition o his long service in the church.
He has been Bishop in Polynesia for 36 years. He is also the oldeas bishop still holding office.
Mrs. M. Lordan was married to well-known Territorian, Mr. Col Dudley, in the District Office at Lae on July 23. Acting District Com missioner for Morobe, Mr. Des Ashton officiated. Drinks with friends at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Stephens, old friends from Manus days, were following by a party at the Hotel Cecil. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley flew to Manu two days later, where Mr. Dudley manages plantation for Edgell and Whiteley.
Fanaafi Ma’ia’i, 26, a Samoan girl who is a Master of Arts, got the full publicity treatment in the Melbourne newspapers in July, while on her way to London University, where she will read for a doctorate in the teaching of English and indigenous languages.
Samoa’s “most highly educated woman” was described as wearing island dress—a long straight lap lap skirt, and loose over-blouse”.
Fanaafi took it all in good heart.
Mr. H. J. West, of the Papua-New Guinea Department of Native Affairs, who is now P NG Liaison Officer in Hollandia, Netherlands New Guinea. His opposite number is Mr.
Raphael den Haan, from NNG, who is now stationed in Port Moresby. KVR Photo.
Mr. and Mrs. Treva Charlton after their wedding at St. Peter's College Chapel, Adelaide, recently. The bride, formerly Miss Marie-Maud jackson, is the only child of Mr and Mrs.
Robert jackson of "Namanula" Largs Bay, South Australia, and formerly of' New Guinea.
She was born in Rabaul. Her parents have been living in retirement in Adelaide for some years but before the war Mr. jackson was in the New Guinea Administration. He seved in the Navy and later the Merchant Service during the war.
Miss Merle Carleton, of RocM hampton, Queensland, has gone ii the ABC service to Fort Moresby to compere the Women’s Sessioo for 9PA, Port Moresby, and assisi in < general announcing. * * * After a by-election campaign conducted with such a degree o gentlemanliness that old politics; campaigners were left breathless Mr. R. G. Kermode, of Lautok;: Fiji, defeated Mr. J. S. White fccf only seven votes, for a seat in tfcf Legislative Council.
It was the European seat for tlrl Northwest Division, rendered vacan by the resignation of Mr. Maurioj Scott, who accepted the Speakershix of the Council.
Mr. William SeeSto, eldest son of Mr. See Kim Foon, and Miss Phyllis Liu, third of Mr. and Mrs. Liu Man Sang, were married recently in the Roman Catholic Church, Rabaus [?] NG. Photo: Larry Child
Mr. M. N. Fagg left Sydney in the Aug "Malaita" for Washington Is., where he will lieve Mr. W. Frein as manager of a plantati for Burns Philp.
Mr. Fagg spent several years in Rougac ville. managing a plantation, and expects to on Washington Island about a year.
Matron Marjorie Thurston, in charge of the hospital and child welfare training centre at Fergusson Island, Papua, is home in West Australia, on six months leave. * * ♦ The well-known and highly esteemed District Commissioner of Morobe, New Guinea, Mr. H. L. R.
Niall, CBE, who suffered a collapse in Lae, in July, has made a good recovery. He received prompt medical care in Lae and in Port Moresby; and then was trans ferred by air to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, for special treatment. He responded so well that, after a fortnight, he was allowed to go home.
Port Moresby gave him two months’ special leave, so that his recovery might be complete; and, when last heard of, early in August, he was being taken away —vociferously unwilling—to a holi day “in the sunshine” in Northern NSW or Southern Queensland, in the care of Mrs. Niall.
He insisted that he was quite fit to return to Lae; but, for once, he had to submit to higher authority.
Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Diamond sailed irom Sydney per Oronsay on July or Suva, where he will take up the post of Archivist with the Fiii Government. * * ♦ Lady Gutch, wife of the High Commissioner Western Pacific, Sir John Gutch, left Honiara in July for leave in England.
Newly engaged couple, pretty Miss Tolu Krone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Krone, of Apia, Western Samoa, and Mr. Bill Spratt, radio engineer at the Government Radio Station, Pago Pago, American Samoa.
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Mr. J. W. Gregory is at presents in the BSIF to conduct a revieww of the Customs tariff and legisla tion. He will report to the Govern ment on any revision he thinksai might be necessary. * * * Miss F. H, Gwilliam, women’sa educational adviser with thee; Colonial Office, has been visiting§j Fiji. She saw educational institu--! tions in many parts of the Colony„y and spent a lot of time meetings members of women’s organisations. * ♦ * The Canadian High Commissioner tr in Australia, Mr. T. Mac Dermot,,! and Mrs. Mac Dermot, paid as flying visit to Papua-New Guineas; in July. Mr. Mac Dermot said hesj was anxious to “sound out” anyyj prospects of trade with Canada, .b There is only a limited amount Jr being carried out between the twoo countries at present.
Dr. Mildred Dickeman, an Ameri can anthropologist who has been studying the natives of a village about 40 miles from Goroka, NG, for the last six months, is particu larly interested in finding out whether NG natives develop resent ment towards the white man as the impact of European life in creases.
She hasn’t finished her work yet, but she said in Port Moresby in July that the Territory had a good point in its favour. That is, the Administration had made contact earlv and given the natives some thing consistent. In other indigenous countries, missionaries . and traders had arrived first, with often unsettling results.
Dr. Dickeman is working on a
Mr. Wan Wing-Sum, the Chinese calligraphist who can write 3,000 characters on the back of a postage stamp, or poems on butterfly an tennae, who has been visiting Chinese com munities in the Pacific. He was in Suva in August. (An article about him appeared in the July PIM, p. 49.)
12 months’ scholarship from the National Science Foundation, in Washington. * * ♦ Dr. T. T. Romans, Chief Medical Officer for the Cooks, has returned to Rarotonga after 12 months’ absence. Dr. Romans completed a post graduate course in the United Kingdom. During his absence the post of acting CMO was rotated between Doctors A. S. Wallace and D. D. McCarthy.
Mr. Robin Whitehead, an officer of the Bank of New Zealand, Apia, Western Samoa, was married at the Apia Chaplaincy, on Saturday, July 5, to Miss Ruth Anne Nelson a New Zealander. The Rev C W Whonsbon-Aston officiated.
Arrivals in Tonga on the June Tcfua included the Rev. and Mrs.
J - Harkness and their family.
Mr. Harkness, who was returning
Dr. J. Bierdrager, Director of Public Health in Netherlands New Guinea, who returned to Hollandia recently after attending a session of the World Health Organisation in the United States . KVA Photo.
Miss A. Rowe left in the August "Malaita" tor Santo, NH, to stay for two weeks with Mr and Mrs. S. Breusch. This was Miss Rowe's first trip to the New Hebrides. She made a visit to Fiji some time ago.
from furlough after a term ini Ha’apai as chairman of the Freo Wesleyan Church in that districts has gone to Vava’u to take the plactoj of the late Rev. K. D. Grove. * * * Tasman Empire Airways Limiteos has announced two new appoints ments. Captain J. R. McGrane.-j MVO, formerly Deputy Operation!: Manager (Flying), has beessi appointed Project Manager, and Mnl.
A C. Williams, formerly Chiesi Maintenance. Engineer, Project Enni gineer. They will control a projecss unit dealing with problems associ-i: ated with the re-equipment of TEAD with new aircraft.
Captain McGrane, who receiveos his MVO after piloting the QueenYrj aircraft during her visit to Fiji, iii one of TEAL’S millionaire mileage pilots with over three million milessl to his credit. Mr. Williams was s lieutenant in the Fleet Air Arm ini World War II and has had wideh experience with UK airlines.
A London report in late July saicbii that the Bishop of Melanesia, theri, Rt. Rev. A. T. Hill, was ill. Bishop Hill, who is 54, has beema; attending the Lambeth Conferences^
Fernand Raynaud, French tele-si; vision and screen comedian, passecbsg through Noumea in early August ems route for Tahiti. He was accom-mi panied by other artists, including ama
Mr. and Mrs. John McDonald—she was Misttih Wendy Renfrey—leave Taurama Chapel, Por[?] Moresby, after their marriage recently.
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Another recent Port Moresby wedding—that[?] of Miss Paula Maher to Mr. Cedric Hulse; they[?] were married at the Roman Catholic Church.
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Italian actress. They will make a film in Tahiti. Director is Yves Allegret, who will be on the next plane through Noumea. The film is being made by Southern Inter national Films of Australia. * * * Mr. J. K. Stone this month becomes Chief Editorial Assistant to Mr.
Len Usher, Executive Director and publisher of the Fiji Times and Herald Ltd. Mr. Stone was on the editorial staff of Fiji Times some years ago, when it was owned by Sir Alport Barker, but since 1956 has been on the sub-editorial staff of first, the Wellington Dominion, and more recently, the Christchurch Star-Sun.
An 18-year-old New Guinea mission schoolboy, Omi-Tavua, has been awarded the Clarke gold medal by the Royal Humane Society for the most outstanding case of bravery during the year.
The citation says that Omi- Tavua, who lived in Hangan Village, helped to rescue Matthew-Sonwia, aged 15, from a shark at Kieta on April 7. 1957.
Omi was between Matthew and a canoe when a shark attacked Matthew 75 yards from the shore.
Omi and the man in the canoe went towards the youth and Omi helped Matthew into the canoe.
Omi was still in the water when the shark attacked a second time, but he frightened it away.
Dr. Julia Lagarejos, American Samoa's first local woman doctor, who recently left for America where she will do a two-years' course in Administration and Public Health before returning to the Territory. This photograph was taken at a party given in her honour by her sister, Mrs. Herbert Scanlan. —Pan American Prints.