People

r. Brian Hurley, the well known lager of the Grand Pacific Hotel, a, was in hospital early in April, ergoing special treatment. Mr.

A. Butler, who recently retired i the Fiji managership of the mi SS Company of NZ, has been ig as emergency manager of hotel. As indicated elsewhere, famous hostelry is faced with reaching changes, owing to sfer of ownership.

>s Alice Turner, who became 3n of Rarotonga hospital three ago, left for New Zealand and ;ment on the March Maui ire. Miss Turner has served in nursing service for 43 years, ’ of them spent in remote e outposts in Burma. She was out from Burma two days 5 the Japanese marched in and further service in India. After i War 11, she returned to a te hospital in Burma and later :in u e d her career in the ions. * * * Konito John Pakoti, Assistant il Officer in Rarotonga, left by air late February to com b a three-year scholarship b in dentistry at the University risbane. Negotiations for his to that university had been on since September, 1957. Mr. 1 was a distinguished scholar

A. Butler, manager in Fiji for the Steam Ship Co. of New Zealand Ltd. for ars, retired at the end of March. He eeded by Mr. A. E. McPherson, formerly [?]er of the New Plymouth office of the [?]y. Mr. and Mrs. Butler will live in New Zealand.

at the Suva dental school durif 1952-56. * « * Mrs. Loke Yew and Mr. Lien Yif Chow, of Singapore, represents the Cathay Organisation, purchase of the Grand Pacific Hotel, Sui v/ill arrive in Fiji soon. A subsidis company will operate the GPH. M Loke Yew is the mother of M Loke Wan Tho, head of the Cathi Organisation, Mr. Lien Ying Chr owns large interests in Malaya a£ Singapore. See p. 20.

One of Suva’s best-known businr identities, Mr. Malcolm M. Brooi manager of the Pacific Biscuit « and Union Soaps Pty. Ltd., left the Tofua on March 11 on a but ness trip to Australia and N* Zealand. He will return to Fiji June 15. * * * Mr. J. A. van Beuge, Attache New Guinea Affairs with 1 Netherlands Embassy, Canberra, v shortly return to Holland. W Attache will be Mr. H. C. Smith, , “old hand” with the former NT who for the last year or two I been a company director Apeldoorn, Holland. He takes up post on June 1. * * * Mr. A. C. Hawker has bt appointed Wireless Officer, Gilbd and Ellice Islands Government, left Melbourne with his wife mid-February to take up appointment.

He % * Mr. James Leggat has be e appointed Director of Education r Western Samoa. He has been he« master at Christchurch Boys HI School, NZ, since 1951. * * * Sir George Seel, KCMG, Sem Crown Agent for the Colonies, tired in London on March 31 s has been succeeded by Sir StepHi Luke, KCMG, formerly Controlc of the Development and Welfil Organisation, British West Indt and British Co-Chairman of ' Caribbean Commission.

Former residents of Fiji, now living Sydney—Mr. and Mrs. R. Percy. They v photographed attending a recent Polyne Association social gathering. —Tele-Photo

Japtain S. E. Gaskin, 30 years h the Union Steam Ship Co., I more recently Master of the idon Missionary Society’s John lliams VI (he resigned from that last September) has been lointed Manager-Secretary to r a’s new Flying Angel Missions to men club. aptain Gaskin, 72, returning n a holiday trip to England, to arrive in Suva as a passenger Matua on April 12.

r. B. Parham, Director of Agri ire in Western Samoa, returned pia in March, after furlough in Zealand. • * * Etienne Wallut, Transports sns Intercontinentaux repre itive in Fiji, left Nadi at the of March, with his attractive to take up the post of TAI t at Honolulu. His successor is Jacques Sutton, who arrived in , a few days earlier from TAl’s ichi office.

ir New Guinea men were ured for their service and sup to the P-NG branch of the ULA when it held its annual

[?]dalcanal's famous war hero and guished citizen, Vouza, with his wife, graphed in Honiara in March shortly being presented to the Duke of [?]urgh. Vouza wore a chestful of awards gibbons —Brett Milder.

Sydney in March from Tahiti was Marcel with a friend, Angus McKinnon, of Staha, New Zealand. —Tele-Photos.

conference in Lae in early Apg They are: Mr. John Cox. Madau Mr. E. V. Smythe, Rabaul (bcc given Life Membership) ; and I D. Treaby, Lae, and Mr. J. Harridb Wau (both received Certificates; * * * Mrs. Mary Thomas, who sp<c more than 30 years teaching Tonga in the schools of FT Wesleyan Church, is at present c New Zealand on two months’ hoj day, after retirement. She wentd Nukualofa in 1926 and during I long term was principal of Que Salote College and, later, of Sc katapu Girls’ College, Vavau. S will return to Australia after leas and live in Melbourne. The rn principal of Silikatapu Colleges Miss Glennis Leech, of Brisbanej

Mr. J. Hartigan, aerodrome sup] visor at Faleolo aerodrome, Westd Samoa, returned to NZ in An having completed his period ofl months’ service. Mr. N, A. Finch! now the NZ Civil Aviation Depas ment’s officer-in-charge at Faleor * * * While the Chief Justice of H Mr. A. C. Lowe, was ill in hosp:c in March, Mr. C. J. Hammr Puisne Judge, took his place on bench, and the Senior Magistral Mr. Ronald Knox-Mawer, acted!

Puisne Judge. ♦ * * Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Bolton, .

Sydney, with their three children,, on an extended visit to Tonga, win Mrs. Bolton’s father, Mr. Alec Dem is BP’s manager at Nukualofa. .

Bolton, who is one of Sydney’s lets ing chiropodists, is a member of Bahai faith and while in Tongas;

Mr. H. A. Henlen, who has been manager of the Bank of New South Wales the past three years, is being transferrer Sydney as manager of the Wales House bra.

Mr. L. L. W. Dobbie, formerly assi[?] manager of the Melbourne office, will re[?] Mr. Henlen in Fiji.

erseeing the Bahai mission in the isence of Mr. Dudley Blakely larketing Officer) and his wife, 10 introduced the Bahai religion Nukualofa and Eua. ♦ * * Mr. Trevor Jones, of the Treasury partment, Port Moresby, Papua, th his wife and their two ughters, were spending furlough March and April at Lithgow, >W. The family made a quick trip Western Australia in mid-March.

Ir. Francis Talasasa, the first □mon Islander to become a dis t officer, is now on his way to land to study for a year at Cam- Ige University. He will take the rseas civil service course at the it blue varsity, while his wife, *le, will study domestic science London. Mr. Talasasa won his ;ter of Arts degree at Canter s' University, NZ, last year.

ie engagement of Miss Lois I, daughter of the Morobe Dis- Commissioner (Mr. H. L. R.

I), to Mr. F. C. Johnson, of the

:her Training Centre, Dreger

n, was announced on March 30, i a reception to the UN Mission being held at the Niall home <ae. Mr. Johnson recently won holarship tenable in USA and couple plan to marry at the end his year, then proceed to the SS.

Sydney on a visit from Fiji in March [?]r. and Mrs. Tom Gibbs and Mr. Fritz —Tele-Photos.

March meeting of the Polynesian As ion in Sydney saw an exhibition of [?]esian dancing by these two young men [?]iert Palmer, of Tahiti, and John Antonio, [?]ituma. —Tele-Photos.

To bring directly to the notii of leading citizens in the Colok that Fiji’s 1959 Development Loti opened on March 16, Mr. E.

Bevington, Financial Secretai, undertook the unusual task addressing 500 letters personal;! and signing every one himself, e;e closing an application form ai prospectus. The success of t H £1,000,000 Loan, which closed « April 13, compensated him fl writer’s cramp.

Mr. Geoff Nash, of Morris He strom Ltd.’s branch at Apia, Weste Samoa, recently became manag of MH’s at Vavau, Tonga, repla ing Mr. John Galloway, who i tired. However, Mr. Galloway is sti active—in March he was prevail upon to help out as relieving assk ant manager at Burns Philp (Sc Co., Vavau, across the road fro his old store.

Mr. Len Dobbin, who resign from Fiji Airways Ltd. in Ma* (he was manager and chief engmrj of FA before it was bought

The Mayor of Suva, Cr. A. D. Leys, Mrs. Leys left for New Zealand for tH months holiday in March. During his abseis Cr. C. A. Stinson will act as Mayor. Cr.

Mrs. Leys are here photographed at a farers function.

Mr. I. G. Lashmar, of Thornycroft [?] Pty. Ltd. who will be leaving Sydney mid-May on a business trip through Papua Guinea and the Solomons.

itas Empire Airways Ltd.), re tied to Australia in early April take up a post in the Civil ation Department, Melbourne, was accompanied by Mrs. Jess >bin, Bill (12) and Coleen (9). and Mrs. Dobbin will be re nbered by old hands in NG— -7 were at Wau, with Guinea vays, in 1937-39. ♦ ♦ ♦ [r. Charles Hoad, manager of Bank of NSW, Thirroul, NSW, been transferred to the Ba, Fiji, ich, replacing Mr. K. E.

Cenzie. He was accompanied by Hoad and their family, Barbara o on transfer to Fiji for the k), Christopher and Annette.

Louis Jaquinot, French ?n Affairs Minister, was in Caledonia briefly, early in on his way to the SEATO rence in Wellington. NZ. He ast in Noumea in 1953 when the French Gov mt at NC’s Centenary cele ms. * ♦ * W. C. Vissher, of the Tongan nment’s agricultural farm, i, arrived in NZ by the March on leave. • ♦ ♦ D. E. Macinnis, P-NG ;or of Lands, was admitted to ar of the Supreme Court, Pt. by, at the end of March. His st in law began in 1946, when is discharged from the AIF, he rank of major, but he left

[?]ris Ritchie, who took over from Captain Want as manager of Fiji Airways, Ltd., on [?]l. Formerly with the aviation depart of Amalgamated Wireless (A/asia.), Mr. joined Qantas a few months ago. ntas bought Fiji Airways last year.

full-time study to join the Northes Territory Lands Dept, the follow ing year. At Darwin, he continue studying law and took his degn in 1951, after which he went P-NG as acting Director of Lanoj assuming control the following yes; He was admitted to the NSW BE last year. * * * Mr. Noel Bayliss, of Burns Phil (SS) Co. Ltd., Vavau, Tonga, wii Mrs. Betty Bayliss and the; daughter, Fono, were holidaying Fiji in late March. They plannr to go on to Sydney later.

Mr. Ted Mulligan, consultir engineer in charge of Honiara Pc Development, has left the Pn tectorate after 21 years. * * * BSIP Trading Corporation hes: Mr. D. R. A. Eden, accompanied Mrs. Eden, toured the West© Solomons, visiting Gizo and Sho:< lands, last month—his first ti; since taking over management Is.

October. * * * The plane from Honiara on Man 10 was a family plane. included Mr. and Mrs. H. Barn and three children, Mr. and ME D. Armstrong and two childrr Mr. and Mrs. P. Barrett and td children, all for England, and M and Mrs. L. Simpson and co child, going to Samarai, Papua. * * * Brigadier D. M. Cleland, Admi. istrator of Papua-New Guinea, a* Mrs. Cleland, flew from Pc Moresby to Sydney for the Easj holidays. They returned to tr Territory on April 8. It w Brigadier Cleland’s second visit in month—he hurriedly flew to Cas berra in March when unofficD members of Legco threatened to i sign over the introduction of I come taxation. * * * Mr. Arthur Strachan, of Lae, NP Guinea, is the organising genius If hind the choir (adults and childres which will sing at Lae’s Anzac IT service which is always held in tr local War Cemetery.

The children of a former well-known [?] resident, Mr. David Morgan—Leslie and [?] Morgan—were at a Polynesian Associa[?] meeting in Sydney in March, entertaining [?] Shirley Hopkinson, of Monte Carlo (left). —Tele-Pho

Urs. D. Dive, elder of the Bahai igious group in the Cook Islands, ;ompanied by two other Cook mds members, arrived in Suva •ly in April to attend a Bahai iference.

r Alexander Drummond, chief ;he British Army Medical Ser s, is expected to visit Noumea •tly. * * * istor D. Jenkins, president of Seventh Day Adventist Mission Vpia, West Samoa, is spending months leave in Australia. * ♦ ♦ r. T. F. French, well known as Llot in Fiji after the war, has i given permission to operate an taxi service linking the beach rt of Korolevu with Nadi and Dlevu, using a Piper Tri-pacer seater. He hopes to start in July. * * * dney couple Patricia Burrell John Williams, who married in ch, planned to go to Rambi id, in the Fiji group, where Mr. iams will work as a surveyor for years. Rambi is owned by ert and Ellice islanders. * ♦ * ,pua-New Guinea Co-operatives er, Mr. D. Penhale, told a Co atives Federation of Queensland ress held in Brisbane in March many Australian-made goods so dear that many P-NG /es couldn’t afford to buy them, heap Hongkong shirt cost in 3 the equivalent of a house > wages for two days the pest Australian shirt cost seven wages. * * * e Commonwealth Auditor-Gen- Mr. H. C. Newman, with Mrs. nan, made a tour of Papua-New lea in early April. Mr. Newman balks with senior Administration ials.

ohn Gunther, P-NG Assistant Administrator, leave Port Moresby in April on six months Three months will be vacation leave, for the remaining three he will do a [?]e at an administration staff college in Victoria.