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Director of Education, Mr. oscoe, visited Netherlands NG tbruary to study Dutch educa methods. He admitted in Port sby before he left that he had studying the Dutch language last November to help read mt documents in Hollandia. * * * R. W. Maxwell, West Samoa’s tor of Health, is due to retire jtober, and may settle in Syd- Dr. Maxwell was in Fiji for pars, and took up his Samoa ntment after retiring from in 1956. He hopes before leav 3amoa to put in the ground of a full-scale campaign st tuberculosis, which will ,bly be launched in January.

Peter Brooke, a relative of i Brooke and Rupert Brooke, proprietor of the former Teva which was once the home of Robert Keable, has taken an itment as Resident Steward ; Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Wellington, NZ. After the Hotel—in Tahiti’s Taravao :t —was sold, Mr. Brooke man :he Lotus for a time, and more ly operated a launch service orea and also a chicken farm. :nt to New Zealand in January.

[?] Marsters, chief citizen of lonely [?]ton atoll, paid a courtesy call on NZ [?]Minister J. Mathison, in Wellington in [?] He was accompanied by his daughter, [?]eka Marsters, of Hamilton, NZ. Mr. [?] Cook Islands Administration agent on [?]ton, is a grandson of the William Mar [?]ho settled on Palmerston about 1860, [?]d of one of the three Marsters families now living there.

Miss Greta Scott, of Rare was married in Auckland in ruary to Mr. J. J. W. Little, Cook Islands Administration Miss Scott’s father, Mr. Harry is associated with a clothing ] facturing industry in Raroto * * * Captain Alex Frame, chiej of French Polynesia’s local a: vice Reseau Aerien Interins was in Auckland in February,

The Hon. Havea Tu’iha’g deputy-Premier of Tonga, a in Auckland in the Orsova witl Tu’iha’ateiho in February, z few days later boarded the Rangitata at Wellington en to Europe for several months day visit. * * * Mr. John Springford, forme the Fruit Office, Rarotonga, was recently appointed Trea Niue Island Administration, Auckland in the Tofua in Fet to take up his new appoint Mrs. Springford was to follow Mr. Jack Whitta, lately Trej at Niue, has been transferr Island Territories Department, ington. * * * Mr. Maurice Hegan, in : years Chief Clerk of the Islands Administration, has appointed Administration C Department of Island Terri Wellington. He succeeds Mr.

R. Heatley, who was re appointed Resident Commiss Niue Island. * * * Recent arrivals in the Islands: Mr. and Mrs. F Holland and two children Holland takes up an appoin as Chief Organising Teacher) and Mrs. R. A. Kingstone anc children (Mr. Kingstone has appointed Headmaster, Te College, Rarotonga); Mr. and C. P. Price and two children

In Sydney on a visit to the Polynesia[?] ciation, Norfolk Islanders Cam Quint[?] Christian and Norris Buffett.[?] —Teli[?]

;e takes up an appointment as icipal, Teachers Training lege, Rarotonga); Mr. I. G. land, new Cook Islands Inland enue Officer. * * * r. Charles Wager, formerly a police official and later en ;d in the Fiji sugar industry, at s the age of 80 on March 22. hall be celebrating”, he writes i Tuhun, South Queensland, I I am sorry that there are so Kai Vitis here, to make it a 1 siga ni sucu.” Mr. Wager con ;s to take a cheery and optimistic of life; but he breaks off his ative to roundly curse the mis ings of his typewriter which, ig to the fact that he now has rite letters with only one finger ae serviceable hand will persist •rinting u where i should be, turning his intended o’s into He calls this “the vagaries of er Time”.

IG Public Relations Officer, Kathleen Vellacott Jones, re el to Port Moresby in February extended leave abroad. Mr. Len who had been relieving PRO, eturn to the Australian News nformation Bureau, Canberra. * * * er nearly six years in Port sby as manager of the ANZ , Mr. F. A. S. Robertson, and vife, sailed for Victoria in i, where Mr. Robertson will ge the Camberwell branch of ank.

[?] a pretty picture as she signs the [?] the IMS Church, Pago Pago, [?]an Samoa, is Mary Molio'o, after the marriage to Fuauli Tiumalux. —Pan American Prints.

Suva had a day of Pomp Circumstance recently when High Commissioner for Frau the Pacific, Monsieur L. Pec in company with Rear Ad Evenou, Commander-in-Chief « French Naval Forces in the P paid an official visit. They a: by the French frigate. F Gamier and returned to Noum air after exchanging salutes v Fiji shore battery; inspecti guard of honour mounted b Fiji Military Force wearing s tunics and white sulus; plac wreath on a war memorial; lunching with the Governor o: Sir Kenneth Maddocks and Maddocks.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hilton, after their r in Auckland recently. The wedding Islands' interest, for both Mr. Hilton bride —Miss Elaine Jacka —were born i

Mr. Tau Cowan takes the hand of his d, Miss Paula Cowan, as they leave home Joseph's Church, Rarotonga, Cook Islands Miss Cowan married Mr. Barry Lineen, c land. —D. C

Ir. Ken Slater, who has spent t of his six years in Papua-New inea milking taipan and Papuan ;k snakes, has resigned from the 1G Department of Agriculture 1 has gone to live in Australia, ih his departure there is no one to do this job, even though the t samples of Papuan black anti que arrived just before Mr. Slater . In future those deady snakes have to be sent to Sydney to be Iked” —and so Papua loses one ler minor exports, snake venom, he value of about £4OO per year.

i American woman, Miss :cham Green, who entertained dreds of RAAF airmen in New c during the war and who has i paying a return visit to Aus a recently, has now gone home, not before she dropped in on i, chartered a plane there and

[?]more visitors to Wellington, NZ, in [?]ary, were Mr. Eugene Paul (above), Leader [?]overnment Business in the West Samoa [?]ative Assembly, accompanied by Mr. Kurt [?] the NZ Islands Minister's representative [?] board of directors of the Western Samoan Trust Estates Corporation.

[?]urt Meyer, who was cn holiday in NZ in [?]ary. He visited the NZ Islands Minister, [?]Mathison, with Mr. Eugene Paul (above).

flew to Tonga for a few hours “because I just wanted to ha little chat with Queen Salote has been one of my big ambiti

A bulletin from the Groves f£ headquarters in Melbourne, Viol with three items of interest: Mr. W. C. Groves, who retiree August as Director of Educa Papua-New Guinea, is bac] harness again on the lecturing of the Burwood Teachers’ Co!

Melbourne. His subject will be S Studies, which includes this ye special course on “The South In the Modern World,” for w he will be able to draw heavil his own experiences in the S West Pacific territiories. Since retirement, he and Mrs. Groves been enjoying a well-earned ho: in Victoria.

Meantime, Dr. Murray Gr their son, has been appoi Senior Lecturer in Anthropolog the Auckland University Col and sets out for New Zealan April. Murray Groves is well kr in P-NG, where he has spent siderable time, latterly carr out research amongst natives in Port Moresby area for the Schoi Pacific Studies of the Austrs National University, Canberra.

Miss Rosemary Groves, you Groves daughter, is currently spi ing three months in India Pakistan undertaking Poli Science research, also for ANU 1960 she will do a year’s p graduate course in the US in Poli Science and Industrial Affairs ui a scholarship awarded her rece by the American Association University Women. * * * A Public Service scholarship been awarded to Mr. F. P. Kaac the Papua-New Guinea Departn of Native Affairs, to enable hin attend an Australian university complete the final year of a dei course. A post-graduate scholar! has been awarded to Mr. F.

Johnson, BA, B.Econ., P-NG Dep

Mrs. George Little, recently returned to [?] after a trip home to Fiji, brought her[?] Ada Eyre, of Suva, to a welcome home[?] at the Polynesian Association.[?] —Tele-[?]

?nt of Education, to enable him to idy for a Master of Arts Degree chool of English) at the English nguage Institute of the University Michigan. This is an internation y renowned foundation specialis r in the teaching of English as foreign language.

Similar scholarships are to be warded annually to Territory blic Servants. The present ones re announced by the P-NG Public rvice Commissioner, Mr. N. omson, in Port Moresby at the i of February.

’he head of maternal care in lua-New Guinea, Dr. R. R. shauge, left Port Moresby on rch 4, for Sydney on her way to aila as one of Australia’s three ‘gates to a World Health Organ ion conference. r. Refshauge said advisers from World Health Organisation ild present papers on relative jects which would be discussed delegates who were being invited n a number of countries. For the b 10 years, Dr. Refshauge has a in charge of infant, child and ;ernal care in the Territory.

[?]ied at St. John's Church, Port Moresby, [?]ss Patricia Gilbert to Mr. Kevin Smith. —Papuan Prints.

[?]and crew of the New Hebrides trader [?]lur Rogers”; Diana Hepworth and daughter [?], 10 weeks old, keep a weather eye on [?]. If Diana ever finds time to write a [?]there should be plenty to tell of interest [?]rears afloat since she quit a job as a war [?]BBC announcer, to sail across the world [?]her husband in the converted Brixham [?]trawler.

This year the famous Cer Medical School in Suva, Fiji, two students from Netherlands Guinea, Alex Mambraku and W Frederick Korwa. The young create two records: They are first Netherlands New Guinean attend the school; and the first students from a Territory where official language is not Eng Students from Papua-New Gu have been attending the sc only in the last 10 years, but year they are the second big group with 27 students, only less than the Fijians, who are biggest.

Mr. Mack Miller, of Fiji Airv I ltd., Suva, spent a few weeks Sydney in February seeing things are done by the parent c pany, Qantas. With him went wife, formerly Miss Liz Henni on a business trip of her own

In Sydney on their way home to Fiji a[?] holiday in England, popular Suva coupl[?] Raddock and wife Sophia. —Tele-P[?]

An important wedding at St. Mary's Cat[?] Church, Lae, New Guinea, took place [?] Miss Beverley Wood married Mr. Graham [?] Kinnon. The ceremony, conducted by F[?] Anselm, was followed by Nuptial Mass[?] Photo: O. Bra[?]

Ar. and Mrs. J. S. K. Borron, of go Island, Lau Group, Fiji, were ongst the many Islands visitors Sydney during February and rch. They have just spent 12 nths in the UK and United ,tes. ■wo Fiji-Indian twin sisters, un and Khairun Nisha, whom itralian immigration authorities ited to send home a year ago ause their educational standards e below that required for trainee ses, have now passed a special mination after 12 months study, •y will now remain in Brisbane :omplete their nursing training.

iirector of ths Fiji Credit Union ue, Jone Naisera, of Tunaloa, been selected as the Colony’s ;ate to the International Credit n Conference, which will be in Boston, Mass., in early May.

[?]isian Association members were on hand [?]p celebrate the graduation of Dr. Oscar [?]son, of Suva, from Sydney University, [?]he is with his sister, Felicia, and mother, [?]Matilda Emberson, who made a special [?] Sydney to see her second doctor son te Tele-Photos.

[?] Pago recently. Dr. F. J. West, senior [?]in history at Victoria University, [?]ton, who is working under the SEATO [?]relations. programme. He has been [?]Fiji, Tahiti and American Samoa to [?] comparative study of their political advancements. —Pan-American Prints.