People

Mrs. Alice Bowring, one of the > oldest and most famous residents >of the Edie Creek end of the Bulolo r Valley, New Guinea, leaves this imonth on a leisurely tour of North lAmerica and Europe. Her travel ing companion is her niece, Miss IDiana Bowring, of Double Bay. iSydney.

In spite of the facts that she fv/as a successful pre-war gold iminer in New Guinea, that she ?went over an Edie Creek precipice iin a car and smashed her hip, jthat she drew the first prize in an lottery, and that she idirected a Red Cross station for -the Americans in Noumea during -four war years, Alice Bowring is Exceedingly spry and energetic at >74, and probably will get as big ta, kick out of world circumnaviga tion as her excited niece.

Mr. Clayton G. Shaw, of Auck land, New Zealand, arrived at Apia, V. Samoa, by plane beginning of :anuary, as managing editor of the Deal weekly, the Samoa Bulletin, leceeding Mr. Terry Dunleavy, who • eld the position for seven years.

Hr. Shaw has been a senior staff uember of the Auckland Star. * * * A Samoan scholarship student, ulao Imo, has gained his medical :Cgree at Otago University, New :€aland, where he has studied since uZ . * * * _Mr. B. L. R. Tattersall, Registrar hd Commissioner of the Western

[?]on ga 's Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Tungi, as reported in January to be planning a visit [?] Japan soon, to discuss trade—particularly [?]pra and a fishing industry. This latest port rait is by Hettig, of Nukualofa.

Samoan High Court, has retired from Government service after 4C years, 35 of which he spent in the Justice Department. A conscientious and popular official, Mr. Tattersall was farewelled by his fellow work ers in an impressive ceremony re cently. ♦ * * The Headmaster of Vaipoul: Boys’ Boarding School in Savaii, W Samoa, Mr. D. H. Lee, has returnee to New Zealand with his family after holding the position for eight years. During his term of office: Mr. Lee effected considerable im provements to the school, dormitories and equipment.

A Parisian newspaper has pubi lished the fact that during the wa;i the present French Premier, M Michael Debre, was registered it the Resistance Movement as beim named Jaquier, and as having bees born on the island of Lifou, om of the Loyalty islands. M. Debre knew, of course, that the Gestapo would have been hard put to it t prove the falsity of the claim. * * * Mrs. Jean Edwards, popular Vice-President of the New Guinei Women’s Club of Sydney, : currently visiting her relatives it Scotland. She left Sydney shortU before Christmas and expects to rei turn there about April. * * * SPC Fisheries Officer, Mr. H. Vas Pel, was in Norfolk Island in Janur ary investigating the possibility o developing the Island’s fishing ini dustry.

A marriage of Islands' interest at Gosfoo[?] NSW —Miss Lois Connerton, for four years nursing sister at Raton Memorial Hospital, Ne[?] Hebrides, to Mr. Bruce Sharp, now with t[?] Lands Department, Kavieng, NG. The coupl[?] who met in the New Hebrides, will live Kavieng. NG guests at the ceremony includ[?] Mr. W. Lovi and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Saunde[?]

Assistant Medical Officer John r, Viliua, of the Niue Island Health [Department, is attending a World [Health Organisation tuberculosis icourse at Suva, Fiji. . After this he will take a six imonth course in anaesthetics at the JCentral Medical School, Suva, and mill go on to work in a New Zea- Jland hospital for two months be- Ifcre returning to Niue at the end x>f 1959.

Nurses Vaitoelau and Katiligi tfiave also left Niue hospital for *Apia, Western Samoa, where they vWill take a three-year nursing :course to become fully-registered nurses with qualifications accepted ctnroughout the Commonwealth.

Mr. and Mrs. Mick Leahy, of tnag, Morobe District, New Guinea, ;ft Sydney by air on January 16 or New York, where Mr. Leahy :ttended General Douglas Mac trthur’s birthday party. The party 1 arranged each year by Major general Jack Sverdrup, of the US irmy Engineers, with whom Mr. eahy worked during the war in New ftiinea. At that time Mick was in ne RAAF, but for some extraord lary reason that would be tenable .aly in war-time NG, he was at •lched to the US Army Engineers.

Sydney Morning Herald" journalist Gavin [?]outer last December was officially invited to [?]company a new penetrative patrol into part [?] the Jimmi River valley, NG, to make first [?]ntact with the Gants tribe. The patrol, led [?] PO Barry Griffin, found the Gants on the [?]adang side of the district. Mr. Souter, [?]ctured here with a member of the tribe, has [?]nce published an excellent and widely-read [?]count of the patrol, which has already done lot towards showing the public the work and problems of NG patrol officers.

Miss Wynanne Legge, daughter o Mrs. Betty Parker, of Rabaul, anc grand-niece of Mrs. Gordon Thomas formerly of New Guinea, wa. married in New Zealand on Jan uary 23 to Dr. Jan J. Saalve, oi the Medical Department of thi P-NG Administration. Theceremon; took place at the home of the bride” grandparents, in Devonport, Auck: land, and Mrs. Joan Brierley (of th.

District Commission staff ii Rabaul), aunt of the bride, wai among those present. The youn, couple expect to live in New Gurnet —Dr. Saalve has just returned fron Britain, where he took post-gradui ate courses in tropical medicim and medical administration.

Mr. Bob Hewlett, who did suoj an excellent job for Fiji tourisß as secretary of the Fiji Visitorc Bureau before he went to Singapoo as Director of Tourism there, hsi a lot of satisfactory publicity ft his new place of business in tU Australian Women’s Weekly January 21. There were 16 pages j coloured photographs, story aix local advertising under the title “Holiday in Singapore and Referring to the Director of t!f Division of Tourism, the Womens Weekly staff writer called hir “blunt, genial Robert Hewlett.” \7 will agree with the “genial”, but Fiji he was always known as Bo£ and blunt is not a word we woujc have used in describing him. It mux be something Singapore has donm * * * Mrs. Ursula Harris, well knovc resident of Rabaul, New Guinea, hrl been spending a month with friem; and relatives in Sydney. She return home late in February.

On a visit to the United Kingdom in February after 45 years in the Fiji Civil Service —[?] Stuart Reay. Mr. Reay joined the service a junior clerk in 1914, and eventually beca[?] the Colony's first Commissioner of Labour, retired in 1954, but was later recalled to [?] come chairman of the Transport Control Bo[?] —with the job of getting Fiji's transport syst[?] into order. He has done it well. After t[?] leave, he hopes to live quietly in Suva.

Mr. E. Flowers, District Officer. -Rabaul, NG, Mrs. Flowers and ■family were passengers to Sydney con the February Bulolo. They will spend extended leave there and ex pect to return to Rabaul towards the end of this year. * * * Mrs. Joan Brierley, of the Secre tarial staff of the District Commis sioner’s Office, Rabaul, returned to 'New Guinea in February. She spent her long leave in Auckland, NZ Xwhere her parents reside), mostly undergoing medical treatment.

Mr. Harry West, who has been Australian liaison officer with the Netherlands New Guinea Adminis tration in Hollandia, is in Canberra on leave. * * * A pioneer missionary of the iivangelical Lutheran Church in 'JG —Rev. A. P. H. Freund —celebrated his silver jubilee at Gawler, South Australia, in January. Mr.

Freund graduated from Concordia seminary, Adelaide, in 1934. * * * Fijian twins Tajun and Khairun who made the headlines in he Australian newspapers last year when they were told they had to their nursing training in Bris bane, and return to Fiji, because their educational standards were not high enough, are now reported to be “doing nicely”. After the out cry, the then Immigration Minister ;?ave them permission to stay another 12 months, provided they

Married in Suva in January, Miss Florence [?]oon, of Hongkong, to Mr. Dick Honson. Mr. [?]onson is a member of one of Fiji's most [?]rominent Chinese families, and more than [?]OO people attended the reception in the beautiful family home in Suva.

Photo: C. L. Cheng.

raised their educational level. The twins, 19, have been receiving coach ing lessons. * * * Born in January, Sina Eller Coleman, the second daughter ano the twelfth child of Governor Peten Coleman, and Mrs. Coleman, o< American Samoa. * * * Mr. and Mrs. G. Hazelman, oi Apia, West Samoa, were involved ii a car accident while holidaying in Savusavu, Fiji, in January. Theh car collided with another carrying Mrs. Hazelman’s mother. Mrs Hazelman and her mother wen both injured.

Dr. F. J. West, senior lecturer ii history, Victoria University College Wellington, NZ, is visiting Eastern Samoa to conduct research intJr political advancement there. He hsx a Southeast Asia Treaty Researco- Fellowship. * * * Rabaul (NG) volcanologist Mlv Jack Taylor visited the BSIP ii January. With BSIP Chief Geologic Mr. J. C. Grover he inspected void canic Savo Island 17 miles northlj west of Honiara.

Miss Dorothy Weaver, who has just passed wi[?] honours her final Law examinations at M[?] bourne University where she has been a pa[?] time student for the last six years. She w[?] practice in Melbourne. Miss Weaver is t[?] eldest daughter of Mrs. L. Weaver of Suw[?] and of the late Captain E. S. Weaver, w[?] died about five years ago in Suva. Over t[?] last 10 years she has written several amusi[?] articles for RIM (one we remember about t[?] Americans in war-time New Caledonia, a[?] another about being nostalgic for a hurrican[?] The Law has claimed all her attention in mo[?] recent years and we have not had as mu[?] from her as we would have liked. Miss Wea[?] has worked hard and richly deserves h[?] brilliant pass.

Back in Tonga after three years’ study at Queen’s College, Brisbane —Rev. John Latukefu and Rev.

Siupeli Taliai, of the Free Wesleyan Church, which sponsored their training at Queensland University.

They are the first Tongan students to gain their Diploma of Education —and will be an asset to the teach ing staff of the 90-years-old Tupou College. ♦ « ♦ Two of Port Moresby’s most prominent couples—Mr. and Mrs.

Ken Donovan and Mr. and Mrs.

Corbet Gore—were being given rounds of farewell parties in January prior to their departure for Australia. Mr. Donovan has : received a new appointment in Melbourne. Mr. Gore has been appointed to an executive position ■ with Hornibrook Constructions in 1 Sydney. * * ♦ Freelance magazine photo -1 grapher, Mr. Kryn Taconis, of - Magnum Photos, New York, was in ’ Fiji in January “looking for some [ thing different to photograph”. : Earlier he had been in Broome, West Australia, on assignment 'with a party of US photographers (and models organising a publicity ► campaign which will boost overseas ’ the waning pearl shell button [industry. World fashion magazines 'will shortly publicise the beauties ►of shell buttons—as against plastic.

Mr. Bengt Danielsson, one of the \Kon Tiki raft crew, now living with mis wife and family in Tahiti, was

Mr. R. D. Moore, general manager of the Bank of New Zealand, which, it has been an [?]nounced, will hold majority of the shares in the new Bank of Western Samoa—see page 125.

Mr. Moore is current chairman of the New Zealand Bankers' Association.

visiting New Zealand in February Mr. Danielsson said on arrival i; New Zealand that he was at pre sent working on the story of Erii de Bisschop’s ill-fated Tahiti Nv raft expedition, based on detail supplied by de Bisschop’s crew. D Bisschop was killed at Rakahangs Cook Islands, last August, whe:: pinned between Tahiti Nui 111 am the reef in attempting to land ther following a4J months voyage fron Callao, Peru. * * * It’s “nice work if you can ge it”, said P-NG schoolteacher Mis Christina Wilson to a Brisban newspaper before returning to he post with the NG Education De partment, after leave. Her previou. posting was at Wabag, with “six c seven blankets and a fire at night; and now she is going to Tari.

Another Islander who made tH news pages, this time in Melbourne was Pastor Solomon Tevita, Seventh Day Adventist missionar. in the New Hebrides, who put o native dress —and a spear—for tH: photographers. Pastor Tevita, wli was attending a mission camp i Melbourne, really wears a suit wh© at home. * * * Mr. L. A. Bridgland, well knowv P-NG Agricultural Dept, seniti agronomist at Kerevat, New Britain left Port Moresby in late Januaus for Accra, Ghana, where he will ac tend a UN cocoa conference as Au;u tralia’s representative. * * * Visiting his home town, PertJ West Australia, in January, after years, was Mr. Ray Sheridan, < Rabaul, author of the section o P-NG music in the recent editioi of the Australian Encyclopaedia, am collector of native music and noisai

Mr. T. W. Canter Visscher, officer-in-charge the agricultural experimental station in Vav[?] Tonga, examines a number of excellent yani[?] beans on the vines in his area. Experime[?] indicate that the vanilla bean could be profitable crop for the Tongan farmer.

i for a recently-released microgroove recording on NG (reviewed in De cember PIM ).

English author Alec Waugh has iecently been visiting Fiji, finishing novel and seeing something of tie Colony. He is the brother of Ivelyn Waugh. * * * There was a happy reunion in >y’au, NG, in January, when leith and Robin Pickard arrived om England to settle in the Terri ory. Mr. Pickard had not seen his Jther, Mr. Bob Pickard, of Wau, or 27 years. ♦ * * Miss Hanifar Sahu Khan repre ;nted Fiji at the Commonwealth louth Conference in Britain in irly February. She is a sister of ir. Sahu Khan, a member of the iji Legislative Council. ♦ * ♦ A new West Samoan judge has ;en appointed. He is Saveaali’i tane, who was sworn in at a special tting of the High Court in Apia, le new appointment will help cope ith the greatly increased work of le Land and Titles Court, and of ie High Court, particularly the rcuit courts. * * ♦ LLae, NG, Golf Club has adopted » e Australian golfing custom of i esenting “One Holer’s” ties. First receive a presentation was George iightingale, who holed in one at ie Bth—the second time that the h has been aced in the Lae club’s •story.

[?]irector of Education in American Samoa, Mr. [?]larvin J. Senter, and his bride, French-Tahitian [?]uise Aimata Wohler, of Papeete. They met during a visit by Mr. Senter to Tahiti. —Pan American Prints.