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The young Princess Alexandra of ent. cousin of Queen Elizabeth, id ah informal look at Fiji on her ay to Australia in mid-August. She •oke her air journey at Nadi and >w to Nausori with the Governor, ir Kenneth Maddocks and then snt on to Suva by car, staying 'emight at Government House. ie returned to Nadi bv the same ute the following day. The Princess ; ked that her Fiji visit be treated 5 private —but there were bi g owds to wave to her nevertheless. * ♦ * The Australian Broadcasting Com dssion in August flew New Guinea lan J. K. McCarthy from Mel lume to Sydney and back for a ilf-hour appearance in a TV panel low, “Face The People”. Mr.
IcCarthy, who is executive officer ir District Services, and has spent ore than 30 years with the P-NG dministration, is holidaying in :elbourne and will be there until tiristmas. During the show he was lizzed by a panel of questioners, icluding PIM publisher R. W. obson, on NG affairs. General ewer reaction: McCarthy has the akings of a real TV personality.
[n Sydney, after a six months’
P to Europe, is Mrs. Marie Hyde, Goroka, New Guinea. With her lighter, Miss Margaret McGregor, s returned on the Willem Ruys “ n° w is spending a couple of »nths with relatives at Bexley, fore returning to the Eastern ghlands in August. Without busi
[?]. Father Goupillaud, SM, celebrated 50 years a priest in July. Father Goupillaud was [?]n in France in 1883, and was ordained in glum on July 4, 1909. He spent 25 years in [?]st Samoa and for the last 25 years has been in American Samoa.
Photo: Pan American Prints.
ness experience, Mrs. Ryde NG four years ago, bought . remaining shop block at and established a thriving ? store. Her best line? Sir native currency and for decoration.
The Rev. Father G. Griifo living in retirement at the of Compassion, Suva, wh stationed at Rotuma for 4<J until 1954, celebrated the jubilee of his ordination priesthood early in July.
Griffon first we(nt 'to Fiji Vendee, France, in 1909, as at missionary, and was statioc Savusavu until transfer;- Rotuma.
Miss Mavis Rivers, of established herself as a singer in New Zealand somcj
Mr. J. L. Molloy, who has just been Pacific Islands branch manager for th[?] Oil Company Pty., Ltd.
Recently in Sydney, Robert Wendt an[?] Miller of Suva. —T[?]
3 then she went from there to >’United States in 1955 and has v definitely “arrived” with the nerican public. Now Mrs. tingub. she has lately signed a g-term contract with Capital ’ords and a long-play album of ", S ongs—with Nelson Riddle’s id providing the accompaniment ras recently released in the ited States. * * * liss Elizabeth Powell, who has n studying dietetics at Lautoka pital, Fiji, arrived in Australia ently to work for six months at : Royal Melbourne Hospital as a ritionist. The visit, to gain ex ience, was arranged by the South :ific Health Service.
t was announced in Port Moresby July 31, that Mr. J. L.
Samara had been appointed ef Collector of Taxes for Papua i Guinea. Apparently the Terri i is not considered to be yet thy of a fully-fledged Taxation amissioner. Mr, McNamara was nerly a senior officer of the wnonwealth Taxation Office, ibourne * * * * tlre e young men from the Islands t ordained as Catholic priests in * Zealand in July. The Rev. John aki, SM, and the Rev. Patrick lu > SM, both of Ma’ufanga, gatapu, were ordained by Bishop SM, of Tonga, in St. •ick’s Church, Napier, on July 21. : Rev. William Paul Hansell, SM, was ordained in St. Mary’s rc “> Mt. Albert, Auckland, by
iop Delargey, Auxiliary Bishop
uckland. All took their secondary
G. Serafini, popular secretary of the Red [?]s in lae, New Guinea, left Lae for Aus [?] in July for an indefinite holiday stay.
Photo: Pat Robertson.
ucation at St. Patrick’s College, verstream. before entering the eenmeadows seminary near pier. Father Hansell is the first moan-born priest to be ordained NZ. ♦ * * Hr Malcolm McDougall, who has ai manager of the Goroka Sports lb in the New Guinea Eastern rfilands, leaves there in August Fiji, where he will become mng-manager at the Mocambo tel at Nadi Airport. Mr. McDougall 5 been a critic of Territory hotels lee Editors’ Mailbag section, this ue.
professor Y. Baron Goto, Hawaii ee expert, will pay another visit New Guinea coffee producing is in September to advise on ee growing and processing. His r to the Territory is being “sored by Colyer Watson Ltd.
Bank of New South Wales. Pro of Goto will be accompanied to .Territory by Mr. R. A. Colyer, of directors of Colyer «on Ltd., and by Mr. R. I.
Jey, also of Colyer Watson. The ty will arrive in Goroka on Sep ber 22, and remain in P-NG for or three weeks.
[?] annual baby show in the Cook Islands rs [?]mall scale affair. For the morning elimina [?] heats at this year's show on Rarotonga, [?]udges were needed, and five for the after [?] finals, to cope with a total entry of 350 [?]es in 12 sections. Awards were given to winner of each section—but here is the
[?]pion of champions—Miss Matanono George,
looking very pleased with that cup.
Photo: Cf. C. Berry.
The Norwegian ship TV disgorged an 8,320 lbs, 21 : packing case at Suva early it Inside was a £3,924 Cadil.
Dorado Brougham consign Queen Salote of Tonga.
The car was taken aboaf Tonga Copra Board’s Aoniu\ hatch was just capable of hsj it, for trans-shipment to NuW
Mr. John Ruatoke lantin, t telegraphist for the Coastwn on Funafuti, Ellice Island, the Japanese invasion, haso after all these years, obtairn radio-telegraph operator’s ficate. He won it with the ■ a Government bursary at tM Zealand Radio College, Aux and has now returned to Tarn the Gilberts.
Before they returned to Suva after a tralian holiday, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Gi[?] given a farewell party by members[?]
Polynesian Association of Syd[?]
T[?]
At another Polynesian Association gat[?] Sydney, were Mrs. Lily Antilla, for[?] Vatukoula, Fiji, with Mr. and Mrs. M[?] Mrs. Perry was formerly Maria Wise -T[?]
Following consultations with eneral de Gaulle and officials in iris, Governor Pierre Sicaud of •ench Polynesia returned to Tahiti ily in August travelling per TAX.
[?]. R. Barn wall, the pilot, and Mr. B. Beswicke, [?]ef engineer, with their Polynesian Airlines [?]cival Prince at Tafuna, American Samoa in [?] The aircraft, which they flew from Aus [?]lia, will be based at Apia and used for a [?]vice between the two Samoas. See news pages this issue. —Pan American Prints.
[?]erinterdent of the Rarotonga Radio station, W. Scarborough and Mrs. Scarborough em [?]ing on the launch to take them to the [?]itemata", headed for a four months holi in the USA. Mr. Scarborough, better known [?]most Pacific and overseas radio "hams" as [?]ZKLBS, in planning to visit a lot of friends has made through his hobby in the States, [?] Scarborough took up art recently, and is [?]eloopmg into quite an accomplished oil painter.
Photo: D. C. Berry.
These days somebody amo Pacific peoples is always “ft do something. But it cam surprise to many people tc that a Papuan girl who grs as a nurse in July was only to so graduate in Australia Sister Dalai Maniana, 23, who her general certificate at E Hospital, Melbourne, She w\ do a post-graduate course midwifery course and then go Sister Maniana was sent tc tralia to train by the Mission, Samarai.
H 5 jj; The job of directing the Sc: Pacific Studies at the Aus National University was offe July to Sir John Crawford, the Australian Government economic advisers. He ac despite the fact that the post; a drop of £l,OOO a year . present salary of £6,000 a:, retary of the Department of Chief task of the school is vestigate economic problen under-developed territories.
A CSIRO survey teamj Canberra in July to undert:; three months land survey o; lower Sepik of NG. The consists of the soil scientist, i Aantjens, Dr. R. Robins, II Reiner, Mr. J. C. Saunders, IV Pullen and Mr. J. McAlpine. * * * Mr. Stan Hynd, a fisheries bio of the Australian CSIRO Fis< Division, who is normally stat
Mr. G Nevil l, Resident Commissioner Cook Islands (right), officially opened t[?] tonga Radio Club's new amateur tram[?] station ZKIBO in June. This 100-wat[?] mitter was completely built by Cook I[?] under the expert guidance of Mr. Stuart [?]
of the Social Development Departme[?]
has been conducting classes in math[?] electronics and morse code for som[?] ZKIBO will be on the air nightly. At on the 80 metre band, both phone and will shortly be on 20 and 40 metres 10 metres phone, and will work all c[?] Photo: D. C
Thursday Island, has returned to istralla after making a survey of e Manihlki mother-of-pearl shell ;ourc:s for the Cook Islands Ad nistration. The survey was aimed assisting the Administration in opting correct conservation pro iures to permit the maximum Dfitable exploitation of the lagoon thout endangering the resources over-fishing. rhe survey will eventually be the jject of a published South Pacific mmission report.
Ir. Doug. Ramsay, formerly of iites Travel Pty. Ltd., Sydney, Jre he handled booking arrange- J ts for Islands poeple, now is •s supervisor of Sita World Vcl Pty. Ltd. “World” is right left Sydney on July 10 on the t leg of a two hemisphere tour t will cover nearly 30 countries )re he returns through USA and Pacific in November. * * * v. Father J. Allais, SM, who been stationed in Western and erican Samoa for the past 10 ‘S, returned to France on vaca m August. Travelling with him far as Fiji was Brother uslaus, SM, bound for vacation Auckland. * * * J: Herb Caen, gossip columnist the San Francisco Chronicle, leward bound from a two-weeks’ ihon in Tahiti, said in Fiji in hst that he was “just going i ?^ tive when he had to put clothes on again—it was time o home”.
[?]e twin brothers met at Nadi Airport when first Boeing 707 arrived recently. At left Mr. R. J. Ritchie, director of Technical ces for Qantas, who was a passenger on airliner, and at right Mr. C. D. Ritchie, manager for Fiji Airways at Suva.