Judge A. Morrow, Chief Judge of Eastern Samoa, paid

Eastern Samoa, paid a visit to Pukapuka, Northern Cook Islands, early October, travelling aboard the USS Fort Defiance, dock landing ship which was acting as mother ship to the big American eclipse expedition there. Judge Morrow was able to speak via amateur radio stations at Pukapuka and Raro tonga, to Administration officials in Rarotonga. * * * Superintendent W. A. Dix, who has served 32 years in the Police Force of New Guinea and Papua- New Guinea, received the Long Service and Distinguished Conduct Medal from the hands of Police Commissioner Normoyle in Port Moresby at end of October. Mr.

Dix was stationed in Wau before the war when that Morobe District town was enjoying gold-boom days.

The Tonga Medical Department selected AMP Sateki Tupou to at tend the South Pacific Commission conference on tuberculosis being held this month, and also as Tonga’s representative to attend a refresher course on modern methods of TB diagnosis and treat ment to be held under the auspices of the World Health Organisation at Suva next February.

Mr. Donald S. Reid, a former Official Secretary to the Cook Islands Administration—his wife was formerly Miss Rose Estall, of Rarotonga —has been appointed Resident Commissioner of the Chatham Islands. Mr. Reid is at present a research officer at Island Terri tories Department, Wellington, His last duty in the tropical territories was as liaison officer between the New Zealand Government and the United States and United Kingdom military units stationed at Penrhyn Atoll, Northern Cooks, during the first British Pacific nuclear bomb tests in the Christmas Island area.

To advise the Tonga Government on the establishment of a central and commercial banking system, the New Zealand Government made available Mr. V. D. Stace, economist of the Reserve Bank of New Zea land, who is well known in the South Pacific for his services as an adviser to various governments on economic problems. Mr. Stace was in Tonga in October.

Mr. T. J. Dunleavy, who has been editor of the Western Samoa weekly newspaper, Samoa Bulletin, for a number of years, relinquished the post in November to become branch manager of a Wellington, NZ firm of printers’ suppliers. * * * The WHO mosquito eradication project in the Tokelau Is., de scribed last month, has completed its first stage and Dr. Marshall Laird and Dr. L. H. Colless, who were handling the project, left the islands in mid-October. Results of experiments will not be known until early 1960, when the researchers will return. Blood-smears of the popula tion of the three atolls were taken to check on the incidence of filariasis.

Duke P. Kahanamoku. one-time s wo r 1 d champion swimmer and b Olympic medalist of 1912 (he is a credited with introducing surf board h riding in NSW), and now SheriffB

Married in Port Moresby recently, Mr. D. J.

Dunston and Miss A. Baker. The ceremony took place at Taurama Chapel. —Papuan Prints.

Another Port Moresby wedding—this one at [?] St. John's Church of England. Happy couple [?] are Mr. Noel Morris and Miss Susan Winckle —Papuan Prints.

of the City and County of Honolulu, was visiting Australia and New Zealand in October. “The Duke” — it’s his real name, not a title caused a good deal of interest in Auckland streets as he made his way about the sport-fishing stores in his broad-brimmed Islands hat. He was on his way south to try his hand at fiy-fishing for trout at Taupo. He has been Sheriff of Honolulu for the past 24 years. * * * Mr. P. J. Twomey, secretary of the NZ Lepers’ Trust Board, has been achieving some notoriety in New Zealand as the country’s only recent case of malaria, which is a notifiable disease there. He was having his second bout in October following a visit of Melanesia last summer.

Crown Prince Tungi, Premier of Tonga, arrived in Auckland on Oc tober 29, and will remain in New Zealand until November 20. His brother, Prince Tu’ipelahake, to gether with his wife and family, is expected in Auckland on November 23 and will remain for some months.

Visitors to a social gathering of the Polynesian Association in Sydney in October—Ratu P. V.

Daunibau, with Adi Vuinadi. —Tele-Photos.

The president of the CWA, Mrs. C. L. Anthony, welcomes the Administrator and guests at the opening of the Port Moresby CWA hostel in October. See page 147. —Papuan Prints.

A popular appointment has be* that of Dr. Hans Thieme as Medic Superintendent .of Apia Goverr ment Hospital. Dr. Thieme is member of a well-known Wester Samoa family of German descen He spent many years in German and returned to Samoa after th last war. He has given much sei vice to the community since his re turn. * * * Captain Bryan Monkton, one c the partners in Trans Oceanic Air ways, which operated from Australi to the Islands after the war, an who later formed South Pacific Air lines, whose plans were upset whe: Britain took Christmas Island ove as a nuclear testing area, was baci in Australia in early October. H and another pilot had delivered i small twin-engined Beechcraft plan from the US for an Australian firm They flew via Honolulu, Cantoi Island, Nadi and Noumea to Aus tralia—quite an undertaking for ai aircraft of this size.

Mr. G. N. Gordon, newly appointedt neadmaster of Samoa College,; western Samoa, has arrived in Apiai to take up his new duties. He wasa formerly headmaster of a NZ Highr 0( C anc * succeeds Mr. Donaldsonr who has returned to New Zealand..; * ♦ » t r ‘ ® ris tow has succeeded Mr..

B - M <r c I al g as District Commis sioner of Ocean Island, GEIC.

Mr. and Mrs. Bristow travelled toe October lSland from Tarawa early \

Cutting the cake after their marriage at the Catholic Church, Port Moresby, are Mr. and Mrs. R. Leeds. She was Miss E. Baker. —Papuan Prints.

Miss Edith Maxfield, recently of Atauloma, Western Samoa, has taken up an appointment as Head Mistress of the LMS Girls’ School at Rongorongo, Beru, Gilbert Is.

Mr. G. T. Bolt, who has recently retired as chairman of the New Zealand Public Service Commission, arrived in Nukualofa in October to take up an appointment as Salaries Commissioner. The last investiga tion into public service salaries was carried out four years ago by Sir Richard Ramage, and the Tonga Government now considers that a further review is necessary.

Sir John Gutch, who had been attending the 18th Session of the South Pacific Commission, returned to Honiara in October aboard the new Melanesian Mission vessel Southern Cross. With him were Lady Gutch, who was returning from leave in England and who joined Sir John in Noumea; Mr. D. J. Derx, of the Colonial Office, and Mr. A. M.

Wilkie, the Western Pacific High Commission’s financial secretary.

Among the Dutch delegates to the Canberra conference on NNG and P-NG affairs in October was Dr. M. W. F. Schregardus, NNG Director of Works and Energy.

In Sydney recently on holidays from the Islands, Mrs. Telesia Bowman (who comes from Samoa), photographed with Miss Ann Wilder, of Suva, at the Polynesian Association. —Tele-Photos.

Mr. V. J. Andersen, has been appointed chairman of the BSI Copra Board. He replaces Mr. C. H.

Allan, who has been appointed Assistant Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides.

Managing director of Buka Planta tion and Trading Co., Mr. Drummond Thomson, recently made one of his periodical visits to Rabaul, en route to Bougainville for a short stay be fore returning to his Sydney home by the Bulolo in November. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Keith Cummings, former Rabaul residents now living in Melbourne, combined business with pleasure in their October visit to Rabaul. Mr. Cummings is owner of Town Taxis Ltd.

The Australian Minister for Terri tories has announced the appoint ment of Mr. E. A. Stanford as a member of the Papua-New Guinea Copra Marketing Board; and that of Mr. F. R. Wilson as his deputy.

No explanation is given as to why a deputy has been appointed— but presumably it is because Mr.

Stanford, a well-known New Ireland planter, has some difficulty in at tending all CMB meetings. Mr.

Wilson, a Kokopo planter, is also well known.

The appointments are to replace

Modelling at a Port Moresby fashion show, popular resident Mrs. A. E. Stephens, wife of the editor of the "South Pacific Post". —Papuan Prints.

Mr. Don Barrett, who now has a special job in the Pacific Islands Regiment. Mr. Barrett was one of the representatives of New Guinea planters (the other being Mr. H. V.

Quinton).

Mi* H. Coppock, a senior Com monwealth education officer, is re lieving as acting Director of Educa tion in Nauru for nine months. * * ♦ A Fiji girl. Miss Marjorie Branster, earned her doctor of philosophy degree at Melbourne Uni versity recently—but she had gone to Canada, and left no forwarding address, before the University could tell her about it. They wrote to her parents in Fiji with the good news.

Mr. Samuel Kruger has had plenty of Pacific experience—including a wartime stint in New Guinea and Australia. These days he's engineer in charge at Pago Radio, American Samoa. —Pan American Prints.

On a visit to the Far East and Sydney recently —Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Brady, of Aionora Planta tion, Kainantu, New Guinea.

Mr. Francis Talasasa, of Honiara, recently left Honiara with his wife to spend 12 months at Cambridge University. ** * * A tree expert from Melbourne.

Mr. R. H. Patterson, was visiting P-NG in October, advising on the lay-out of hospital grounds. * * * Mr. and Mrs. W. Simmonds, of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission in Fiji, returned to Suva at the; end of October after a six months world tour —including a motor tour of the US and Canada. London shops, in Mrs. Simmonds’ view, put Paris shops “in the background”.

“Local boy makes good” was thea theme of a Cowra (NSW) news paper story in October, giving newsa that Dr, R. F. Scragg had beenn appointed Director of Public Healthd in P-NG. Dr. Scragg, who is NZS born, went to Australia as a boyy and attended primary schools inn the Carcoar-Cowra district of NSW His father was, a few years ago„c the Pastor of the Cowra Seventhri Day Adventist Church. * * * Mr. E. S. Coles, general manager* of the Norfolk Island Whalings Company, flew to NZ in October* after the company completed itsaj 1958 season at Norfolk. He an-i nounced that Norfolk people had re— <

Assistant District Officer Alec Zweck, of Lae, and his bride, the former Mary Fitzgerald,, after their marriage in the Catholic Church Lae, in October. Photo: 0. Brabant.

ceived £16,000 in wages and bonuses during the season, in which 120 whales had been caught in 74 days.

Mr. John Dowling, of Manly, Syd ney, a former resident of Fiji, where he was a director of Morris Hedstrom Ltd. —has been seriously ill. Latest reports said he was mak ing satisfactory progress. * * * Mr. Reid Cowell, formerly British Assistant Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides, has been appointed United Kingdom Second Commissioner on the South Pacific Comission, succeeding Mr. H. H.

Vaskess, who is retiring from the post, * * * Publisher of the Pacific Islands Monthly, Mr. R. W. Robson, in November was visiting Fiji and Polynesia.

Peter Chan, 15, of Rabaul, was referred to by Brisbane newspapers as a “running machine” after he had scooped the pool at a combined schools athletics meeting, in Bris bane, winning the under 16 years 220 yds and 100 yds, the open and under 16 long jumps, leading his team to victory in the relay and clipping a second off the 440 yds record. Said Peter, “I don’t like athletics. I ilke baseball!”

At a Polynesian Association meeting in Sydney, Miss Felicia Emberson, of Suva, with another Suva personality, Mr. Bill Sorley. —Tele-Photos.

Smiling couple are Mr. K. Gardner and his bride, the former. Miss B. Hounslow, after their marriage at St. Johns Church of England, Port Moresby, recently. —Papuan Prints.