People

Mr. Papali’i Poumau, a Samoan, has been attending the current ses sion of the South Pacific Commis sion, as New Zealand’s Alternate Commissioner. At home he is an ad ministrative officer, Savai’i, and his appointment gave general satisfac tion in Western Samoa as this is the first time anyone of his race has represented NZ at the SPC.

Gilbert and Ellice Islands Resident Commissioner M. L. Bernacchi and Mrs. Bernacchi made a tour of the Northern Gilberts in late August, and in early September Mr.

Bernacchi, again accompanied by Mrs. Bernacchi, left Tarawa for a conference of administrative officers to be held at Funafuti, Ellice Islands.

They travelled aboard the Govern ment’s new vessel Moana Raoi, which continued on to Suva. * * * Mr. R. M. Summers, accompanied by his wife and family, arrived at Ocean Island from Australia in September en route to Tarawa, where Mr. Summers was to take up appointment as mechanical en gineer. * * * Dr. G. Y. McCririck, transferring from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony to the Solomons, left Tarawa by RNZAF flying-boat on August 16. * * * Mr. and Mrs. C. J. S. Young and their two children were passengers on Orontes when she left Sydney bound for Southampton on October. 1. Mr. Young is a surveyor with the Department of Lands, Port Moresby.

They will spend three months in the UK.

Prominent Port Moresby identity Mrs. M. Jewell says thank you after receiving life membership of the Papua Yacht Club—presented for assist ance she has given the club. —Papuan Prints.

This month Queen Salote will celebrate the 40th anniversary of h£r accession to the Tongan throne and the kingdom will be en fete. The Queen was only 18 at the time she succeeded her father, George Tubou 11, who died at the age of 44.

Mr. G. A. V. Stanley, well known Port Moresby geologist, recently spent about five Weeks in Nether lands New Guinea at the invitation of a NNG petroleum prospecting company. Results of oil exploration work in Papua were compared with that in NNG. Mr. Stanley returned to Port' Moresby the first week in October. * * * Another world expert was spend ing some time in Papua-New Guinea in September. He was Pro fessor R. Ruggles-Gate, who special ises in pygmies. His conclusion, after examining the local variety, was that they weren’t anything like the African pygmies. He left for Cairns, Queensland, on September 27, where he planned to look for something most Australians have never heard of a special negrito type aborigine which he thinks lives in the North Queensland rain forest.

Lolohea Waqairawai, who repre ™rntec* , Fi ji the Pan Pacific Women s Conference in Tokio re

Mr, and Mrs. E. Spence returned to Bulolo, NG, in September, after, leave. Mr. Spence, a labour overseer, has spent 26 years in the Islands.

Mr. and Mrs. n. Marnie after their marriage at Ela United Church, Port Moresby, in Sep tember. She was Miss Myrna Lake. —Papuan Prints.

cently, by all accounts took the place by storm. She was much praised for her charm and dignity, appeared on television and was in terviewed by newspaper reporters wherever she went. Two Western Samoan delegates, in whose charge Lolohea was placed—because they had more experience with such gatherings—said the tables were re versed and, in effect, they “became Lolohea’s daughters”. Loloeha got back to Suva after her triumph, in September, and was warmly wel comed home by women leaders of all Fiji communities. * * * Fiji, too, has visiting experts. In September, Mr. P. J. Derx, of the Fiji and Western Pacific Section of the Colonial Office was in Fiji acquainting himself with “the terri tories, their peoples and problems” —which covers a pretty big field.

He was to be followed, early No vember, by Professor F. R. G. Heaf, TB consultant to the Colonial Office.

Fiji began an anti-TB campaign last June, It is expected to last two years.

Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Seton, form erly well known residents of the Solomon Islands, are now living at Upper Mount Gravatt, Queensland.

When they left the Solomons a few years ago, they had a farm at Been leigh but this they have sold. Mr.

Seton is now partly disabled with an arthritic condition.

Mrs. F. S. Stewart, of Lae, New Guinea, was a passenger on the Mariposa when it left Sydney for the United States on October 3.

With her went son-in-law, daughter

Fijian AMO Tomu Uluilakemba looks pretty efficient as he examines a patient's eyes in a Suva eye clinic. —Fiji PRO.

and grand-daughter—Mr. and Mrs.

Leo Bowman and young Debbie—of Port Moresby. They will be away for several months. , * * * Mr. David Graham, Union Steam Ship Co. manager at Rarotonga in recent years, has been transferred to Apia and will become Branch Manager there following leave in New Zealand. His place at Raro tonga is being taken by Mr. E. B.

Houston, former purser in the com pany’s island vessels Tofua, Waitomo, and W aihemo. Mr.

Houston was accompanied to Raro tonga by his wife when he left Auck land per Maui Pomare in September.

Among the passengers booked to leave Tonga on the October Tofua are the Rev. and Mrs. Ronald Woodgate with their daughter Leith, who are returning to Queensland tor six months leave. Mr. Woodgate is president of the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga, and personal chaplain of Queen Salote. During his 10 years in Tonga he was first, principal of Tupou College and later principal of the Siatautai Bible Training College at Nufualu. * * * Mr and Mrs. George Kemp and lamily are returning from Tonga to New Zealand for leave. Mr. Kemp is also well known in Fiji. He has been Director of Education with the Tongan Government. * * * Returning to Queensland from Tonga in November will be Mr. and.

Mrs. Claude Thomas, who have fo t 1 Sl ?ii_ y £ ars b een teaching in Tonga < with the Free Wesleyan Church. Mr..

Thomas has been principal of the; big Nukualofa primary church i

Mr. and Mrs. Norman W. Lee's Republique won the Orient Line Cup at the meeting of the Rabaul Turf Club on September 13. Here, club president, Mr. M. B. Foley, has just made the formal presentation of the Cup to Mr. Lee.

school and has supervised the Church primary schools throughout the Kingdom. Both will be missed in Nukualofa where they have taken a keen interest in community affairs.

Netherlands Ambassador to Aus tralia, Mr. A. H. Lovink, paid his first visit to NNG in September, for discussions in preparation for the big Canberra conference in October (see elsewhere). While there, he took a look at the Baliem Valley, one of the heaviest populated areas in the Territory and made famous as the wartime “Shangri-la Valley”.

He astonished many Hollandia people with his ability to speak fluent Chinese. But he was once Ambassador to Chunging.

Mr. A. H. Etherden, senior trust officer of Burns Philp Trust Co.

Ltd., which handles the estates of

[?]itor to Sydney, Mr. Clive Chapman, of Norfolk Island. —Tele-Photos.

Mr. P. L. Burns, left, who visited Port Moresby on the "Bulolo" in September to see his son, Mr. F. M. Burns, a Works Department super viser, was farewelled at Sydney by relatives and friends.

many deceased Territorians, made quick but extensive visit to P-NG i September, calling in, among othe places, at Tapini, famed for its wil and woolly airstrip, which runs u a steep hillside. ** * ’

Mr. W. E. Tausent, head of th Government Information Office, i Hollandia, NNG, returned t Holland on six months’ leave i: October, but took the long wa home—via Australia and Zealand, where he has made man friends among newspapermen wh have covered Dutch New Guine stories in the last few years. * * * Mr. Sam G. Mackey, recently c TEAL’s Suva staff, has taken ove the management of TEAL and She!

Oil Co. interests at Aitutaki, re; placing Mr. Doherty there.

Mr. Charles Hammond, lately a Mechanics Bay staff in Auckland was recently appointed to Satapuals Western Samoa, replacing Mr, Roi Kirkwood who returned to Auck; land.

M. Henry Sigerist nas recently taken up the appointment of Sale!

Representative for TAI Airline ii New Zealand, with headquarters £8 76 Queen Street, Auckland. * * * In August about 1,000 Churco leaders from more than 60 countriei attended the 14th World Conventioo on Christian Education held ii Tokyo. Among those chosen as delegates was the Rev. John

The marriage of Miss J. Scott to Mr.

Jessep at Port Moresby in September was have been performed at Taurama Chapel, b [?] rain made the road impassible—so the cer [?] mony was at the home of friends at Borok [?] —Papuan Prints

Amanaki Havea, of the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga. While he was in Japan, the St. Pauls University of Tokyo bestowed upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. In 1954 he returned to Tonga from Drew University in America, after gaining his BD Degree with honours, and at present he is Assistant Principal at Tupou Boys’ College, Nukualofa.

Mr. Alan Timperley, District Commissioner, Milne Bay District, Papua, has been on holidays in Brisbane with his wife and family.

A. son was added to the family re :ently. Mr. Timperley is an old ‘Murray man” and was PO up at Soilala before World War 11.

Unfortunately he spent over a month of his time in Brisbane in hospital with pneumonia and a skin ;omplaint but is now recovered.

Captain J. H. Evans, harbour master at Madang, New Guinea (formerly at Rabaul), hitherto a staunch bachelor, goes on leave shortly. When he returns, he will be accompanied by a new Mrs.

Evans.

New Zealander Desmond Baker has travelled widely—but never to P-NG. So he travelled there in September, with the idea of settling there if he likes it.

Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Evans —she was Miss P.

Mitchell —after their marriage at the Port Moresby Roman Catholic Church in September. —Papuan Prints.

An interesting and interest! visitor at Legco sittings in Po Moresby in September was Mr.

T. Bensted, who joined the Briti* New Guinea service in 1900 (it d not officially become Papua uni some time afterwards) and retin 28 years ago. In 1900, Port Moresl was “something nothing”; and : 1930, when Mr. Bensted left, it st: was only a harbourside villag Now, next to Suva, it probably ran] as the South Pacific’s second cit For many years, Mr. Bensted wi the Territory’s Director of Publ Works.

Mr. Dyson Hore-Lacy, well-knowv owner of Garua Plantation, Nee Britain, which he started in 192! is retiring from the Territory air will live on his propertv in Victoria Garua will be turned into a publiJ company. (See Commerce section this issue).

New South Wales State Commissioner for Goo[?] ernment Transport, Mr. A. Shoebridge, too[?] a first-hand look at P-NG in September—bud[?] strictly for pleasure. He was aboard t[?] "Bulolo".

Mr. E. Docker and the former Miss June Walle of Lae, NG, after their marriage at Lae.

Photo: 0. Braban

Mr. Robert Crompton, Senior, head of the well-known old Fiji family of lawyers, attained his 89th birthday on October 2. He is at present residing in Christchurch, New Zealand, and continues in good health.

The Rev. Cecil Gribble, General Secretary of the Methodist Over seas Mission, received his Order of ;he British Empire at a Govern nent House Investiture in Sydney >n October 1. Mr. and Mrs. Gribble vere in charge of the Methodist ?hurch in Tonga for eight years, ind he also was principal of the Pubou College for boys, in Nu kualofa. => * * There was a lively celebration n the bar of the Gilmore Hotel n Madang, New Guinea, on Sep ember 22, when Squadron Leader Man Ferguson and Flight-Lieu enant Bill Matthews met up with 3roup-Captain Bill Duncan (son if the late Rabaul Harbour-Master, fames Duncan). Ferguson and Matthews were on their way South, illed with new visions of the future lecause they had just sold Kinjibi offee plantation, at Banz, for over 100,000; and Bill Duncan was their loss in the Middle East back in the Vorld War II days that really nattered. Some lively adventures — military, social and otherwise ?ere lived over again, while a lozen of the inevitable beer-cans fere punctured and laid low. * * * Dr. William Davenport, of Yale Iniversity, with his wife passed hrough Honiara, BSIP, in Sep ember en route for the Santa Cruz roup to study communal life there.

Mr. S. A. J. Walker has been appointed Islands manager of the Shell company. He made an [?] nspection tour of the company's establishments [?] n New Guinea and Fiji in October. Area under [?] is control includes P-NG, BSIP, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.