People

r. Claude Champion, with 32 s in the P-NG Public Service nd him, is the new Director of I Affairs, in place of Mr. Steve 3rgan, who retired last month. 7- two years old, he joined the 3 apuan Public Service as a clerk 927, then went into the field t patrol officer and assistant lent magistrate, carrying out a ber of exploratory patrols. He 3d in World War 11, from -45, ending with the rank of )r. Going back to P-NG with Provisional Administration in he was Assistant District er, Assistant Director of District ices and Native Affairs, Assist- Government Secretary, then id in charge of the Civil Affairs irtment.

F. Reece, of Seligson & Clare Ltd., spent a couple of weeks )ia In late April installing a -type Heidelberg automatic r printing-press at the Gov ;nt Printing Office. The West -samoa Administration estab the printing office at Apia a i of years ago and is gradually ling its capacity.

William R. Suttie, for many in the Queensland Forestry e, before going to New Guinea •6 as chief of the Division of ilture, succeeds the late Mr. vlcAdam as Director of Forests, g World War 11, he was in 3 of a forestry company in NG fas responsible for some im it New Britain forests surveys.

[?]is Niall, the charming young daughter [?]rict Commissioner and Mrs. H. R. L. [?]f Lae, New Guinea, whose engagement Frank Johnson of Dregerhafen, NG, was announced recently.

Mr. Syd Cockle, of the She Company, Apia, returned to Western Samoa recently after three and half months’ furlough. His reli© Mr. F. D. Porter, now has returne. to Sydney. * sfc * Mr. John O’Grady, author 'll Nino Colotta) of the best-sell»J “They’re a Weird Mob”, togethu with his wife and son (Denis, wh was the prototype of the bricklayer i the story) spent a few days in Suv in April-May before departing f( Europe aboard the Laganbam In England and Italy, Mr. O’Grao will collect material for a sequt to The Mob.

Professor J. Watson, chairmanj the Department of Anthropoloc Washington University, USA, w carried out culture-contact stui at Kainantu, Eastern Highlarr New Guinea, in 1953-55, was bs in the district in April doing furtl; anthropological work for the National Science Foundation.

Mr. Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet, representa[?] for France on the Trusteeship Council of[?] and a member of the delegation visit[?] Western Samoa in April, photographed at S[?] as he hurried back to Europe on instruct[?] from General de Gaulle.

Mr. and Mrs. Ray Colahan left for Lae o[?] "Malekula" after three month s leave in [?] Mr. Colahan has been working as a cos[?] agent with the Bulolo Gold Dredging [?] NG for the past five years.

Randolph Stow, a Westralian. i patrol officer in Papua-New a, has won the 1958 Miles ;lin literary award of £5OO for ovel “To the Islands”. His book, it deals with an ageing nary’s life on an aboriginal n station in the far north )f Australia.

D. D. McCarthy, of the NZ il Research Council, is visit tiu Island, Cook Group, to 3 an anti-filariasis campaign, largest of the Cooks in size, as a third of its male popu and one in nine of the s infected.

[?]rian C. Swire, great-great grandson of [?]nder of the China Navigation Co. who [?]n spending some months in the Pacific [?]company's business. He left Sydney for [?]veeks in New Guinea in late April, will [?] back to the UK via Fiji for leave, [?]returning to headquarters in Hongkong.

Mrs. W. A. Donald, returning to Auck [?] a visit to Tahiti in April, were met [?]la Bay, Suva, by Mrs. Harold Gatty Mr. Donald is a principal of the well [?]land trading firm of A. B. Donald and Co., Ltd., Auckland.

Two Fiji-Indian students, Deo Narayah Sahey and Miss Sv< Nabi, were married at We Church, Hobart, on April 18, will return to Suva shortly afttJ honeymoon in Australian Stf and NZ. Mr. Sahey, who stui law in Tasmania, was admitted; the Bar at Hobart in April, after his bride completed secretarial course.

Mr. and Mrs. B. Hooley, memt of the Summer Institute Linguistics and Wycliffe E Translators, with their tt months’ old baby, have settled dt in a village in the Buang eg Morobe District, NG, to the oner task of making the Buang pe« literate in their own language, job will take a number of yes first to learn the native langu. secondly, to reduce it to wrii form, then to make the Bus literate —as a bridge to literacy English. Ultimate aim is to trr late the Bible into the Buj language for them to read. * * * Miss Dorothy Amy Weaver Suva 10 years ago to join a 11 firm in Melbourne, Australia, first the law interested her, t fascinated her and she began If studies. Early in April she admitted to the Victorian Bar a barrister and solicitor, mother, Mrs. C. C. Weaver (wii of Captain E. S. Weaver) attend the ceremony. * * * Mr. Stan McCosker, formerly New Guinea (Matala and Ms; plantations) has changed cocok for pineapples—he now is a pc apple planter in a big wayv Nambour, Queensland. His daughters, Robin and Anne (H in NG) left Sydney by the A Strathnaver for London. Ro who gained her Diploma of Edvl

Mr. G. Ellingworth, manager of the S[?] office of Alfred Lawrence and Co., Ltd.,[?] will leave Sydney by air on May 30,[?] companied by his wife, on a business tn Papua-New Guinea.

at Qld. University, will take a UK teaching post; while 5, who won a Commonwealth larship in last year’s Qld.

ar Public Examinations, in

s furthering her studies in t at the Phyllis Bedell Ballet lemy. * * * ’• Steven Barber of the San cisco trading firm of Atkins, ■ and Co., visited Fiji and ern Samoa briefly in April, firm has traded for many i with American territories in Pacific and Mr. Barber hopes sume business with the British )s, particularly Fiji, now that r restrictions have been eased ;le.

mander A. V. Bunyan, DSC, )r many years harbourmaster ikatea Island, French Poly for the Compagnle Francaise losphates de I’Oceania, was

[?]e Yew, one of the directors of Cathay Ltd., who has gone to Suva to super [?]nge-over of management of the Grand [?]cific Hotel. (See story page 69.)

F. Kennedy, who has been at the Christ Mission Hospital, Aoba, New for the past 11 years, left Sydney as [?]er on the April "Tulagi", after six months Australian leave.

in Sydney from Tahiti on a sti holiday in mid-April. Before Wo 1 War 11, he served as officer ; master with the British PhospM Commissioners, and during the was in command of several H ships, including HMAS Kanirm Swan and Bathurst (the first A* tralian-built corvette). Serving w Kanimbla, Commander Bumj took part in assault landings i Morotoi, Layte, Lingayen, Bru and Balikpapan.

Macu Salato, Fijian Senior As. tant Medical Officer, leader of teams now working on a full-s tuberculosis immunisation c: paign, will go to England later year to undertake a special n r months’ course leading to the Diploma of Health Education, was in the Solomon Islands in and conducted a TB survey was singled out for praise by Secretary of State for the Coloi It will not be his first overseas —he was in London in 1946 Fiji’s Victory Contingent (hat served as Chief Petty Officer inr

Bishop Pearce, of Western Samoa, shows[?]

bride, formerly Imeleta Mulitauaopele,[?]

American Samoa, where to sign the re[?] after her marriage, in April, to Mr. Sagatot Ching, of Apia, Western Samoa. The B[?] travelled from Apia to the American territo[?] perform the ceremony. —Pan American P [?]

Mrs. Ann Griffen, Social Secretary ot[?] Sydney Polynesian Association, with Mr[?] Rogers, formerly of Fiji, now of Melbour[?] a recent meeting of the Associationp[?] —Tele [?]

, in Sydney in mid-1955 at sian-Pacific Tuberculosis Con e, and in New Caledonia the before last to complete a education training course.

Keith Noblet, manager of obertson Pty. Ltd.’s 1,250-acre ilantation, Wanaru, six miles Lae, New Guinea, made a business visit to Melbourne )ril to confer with his als. * ♦ * Rev. D. Stuyvenberg, SM, is w Marist Mission Bishop of uthern Solomon Islands, re- Rt. Rev. J. M. Aubin, who d at the end of 1958. The ishop was consecrated by shop Carboni in Sydney 7, at a ceremony attended by Doggett, OFM, of Aitape. nd Bishop Foley, SM, of Fiji, and a number of rs from the Marist Seminary, bbie, NSW. A Dutchman, v. Stuyvenberg has been in lomons since 1937 and, as a was stationed at Buma, on l, in recent years. * * * Garnet Malley, of Nabavatu ion, Vanua Balavu, Northern mp, returned to Fiji in April holiday visit with friends berra and Sydney. * * ♦ W. J. B. Clapham, manager Lautoka branch of the Bank Fiji, will retire next month, > years in the banking busi- A New Zealander, he held osts in NZ, Suva and Apia er), before going to Lautoka ears ago. His place will be 3y Mr. G. K. Rodda, from u, NZ. * « * Maniana, a young Papuan 10 has been studying for

[?] Boendermaher, newly-appointed Under

[?]f Internal Affairs, in Netherlands New Guinea.

three years at Epworth Hospc Melbourne, passed the Victoic State registered nurses’ fi examination in April. She novi a fully qualified nursing sister j after two months’ holiday with j parents at Kwato Mission, Easte Papua, will return to Victoria j another 12 months’ experience..

Dr. Wharton B. Mather, se= lecturer in zoology at Queensl< University, will spend May June in Papua-New Guinea cat ing out research work. * * * Miss Val Nobbs, of Norfolk Isll who is at present holidaying Europe, had the unique experii recently of taking tea with Majesty the Queen Mother • Clarence House, London. Wheir Queen Mother was in Australia,, met the then-Administn (Brigadier Norman) and, in ■ versation, asked him if there " still members of the Nobbs fai on Norfolk, saying that her brot Michael Bowes-Lyon had ir friends with one while a prisoc of-war in Germany. Brigs Norman passed on the informs that Miss Nobbs was to England with her sister, Ivy; in due course the ladies receiver invitation to call at Clarence H( * * * Dr. Emile Massal, who headed Health Section of the South Pa Commission for 12 years, Noumea by air late in April to turn to France, having terminr his appointment. A large cr; gathered at Tontouta aerodrorm wish him bon voyage, for he m quite a name for himself in Caledonia, not only through j excellent SPC work but also beci

of his pleasant personality.

* * * Mr. Russell Foreman, author' painter of note, with beard, arr in Sydney by air from Fiji on i 23. His book “Long Pig”, published in USA, will be issu© Australia in July.

Mrs. E. Gaskell, widow of the late M [?] Gsskell, a well-known identity in the Solo [?] left Sydney on the April "Malekula" [?] Rabaul, where she will join her son. [?]

Malcolm Broadhurst, manager dup plantation, Madang, NG, ed Miss Shirley Sampson, ig sister, at St. Michael’s ;h, Alexishafen, last month, p Nosser, of the Catholic m of the Holy Ghost, per d the ceremony.

H 6 * ♦ er M. Rosanne, SMSM, of a, USA, who has been led to mission stations in *n and Western Samoa for ast eight years, was in New id in May on furlough. * * * J. H. Hohnen, managing >r of New Guinea Goldfields Wau, is on holidays in Mel -5 with Mrs. Hohnen. Before ing to NG, he will visit min ases in Western and Central ilia. Mr. F. J. Leydin is in • at NGG Ltd, during his :e. ♦ ❖ ♦ J. N. Roberts, National iphic Magazine, USA, who a short time recently on k Island capturing a series lotographs to illustrate a article by Mr. T. C. Roughley t NSW Director of Fisheries) turn soon to NX from Sydney, iplete his assignment.

Alec Haworth, who retired Robt. Gillespie Pty. Ltd., . early in 1957 and went off liti to live the quiet life, hat things turned out differ- Tom what he anticipated, i just settled down outside '». when he contracted itiasis; followed a long period ;rt treatment and then re- He went then to Fiji but e coronary illness put him ospital for some months, illy, he returned, a little len, to Sydney; but time eavily on his hands and, in y last, with health re - he rejoined Gillespies at 66 and only a little less and jaunty after his ex ;s, he is renewing old busi-. d personal friendships.

Smith, from Palmerston, NZ, a mis [?]ith the South Sea Evangelical Mission, for the BSIP on April "Tulagi".