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n Salote of Tonga, who is rell versed in the history of imtry right back to the 10th j of our era, has carefully the names of all her grand n She chose the name for ith grandchild in July when r son was born to Princess ho, wife of Crown Prince The new Prince, for whom gun salute boomed out over ofa Harbour, has been called a ’Unuaki-o-Tonga, after i the first known of the long Tui Tongas who lived around >. se Tungi and his wife now iree sons and a daughter. * * * Reverend and Mrs. Leslie of the London Missionary I left Apia, Western Samoa, gust. Mr. Brame, formerly faster of Leulumoego Fou High School, recently was ed at Apia.
wedding of Miss Mariana Jth Thompson, daughter of id Mrs. E. P. Thompson, and ian Nicholas Links Grey, son s. Aggie Grey, and the late Gray, took place at the irai of Immaculate Concep- Mulivai, Western Samoa, on t 6. A reception and dance Tivoli Theatre were attended large gathering of friends.
own Territorian, Magistrate Ralph was married in Madang, New Guinea, st 8, to Miss Madge Brown, formerly [?]g sister at the local hospital. The shown here cutting the wedding cake reception held at the Court House, [?] the wedding ceremony in the Anglican church.
Photo: S. Diczbalis.
An Auckland eye specialisl Elliot, who recently visite treated over 300 patents Government Hospital durinj days he spent in the Terri performed a number of op and was able, in two cases store the sight of Samoan ;
Four Samoan Guides left plane on August 26 to ta! in a Young Adult Confer* Suva. They were Atina Amc Saints Brownies), Sina Colli
Revisiting Noumea, New Caledoni[?] was Lieut.-Col. Robert C. Hayes once[?] Marine Corps. Col. Hayes was s[?] New Caledonia during a part of th[?] has returned there to write a series for newspapers and magazines in [?] what the old stamping grounds of t[?] look like today. Colonel Hayes ha[?] in finding any physical traces o[?] Marine camps, as these were neve or permanent around Noumea.
Caledcnia Colonel Hayes will move Hebrides, and then to the Solomons He is shown here, right, with Brock, Gantas agent in Noumea.
Photo: F[?]
Mr. Teariki Tuavera, Rarotonga Isla[?] member for Matavera, is a newcome body activities. A man with progres he has set an example to his fel[?] cillors by obtaining the sup[?] promise of free labour from his [?] the laying of a fresh water pipe li[?] stream in the hills to connect with t[?] water supply, which comes from [?] and which has lost most of its effectiv[?] by the time it gets to Matave[?] Photo: D. [?]
Guides), Nora Hagedorn (St.
Guides) and Chlotilda 5 (St. Mary’s Guides). The >nce. the first of its kind, was \ encourage the training of eaders for girls’ and women’s i the Pacific. * * * ). M. McLaughlin, after hav npleted his 3-year-term of as W. Samoa Director of left with Mrs. McLaughlin on mthbank for England in Other departures in the lonth were Mr. K. Rhodes, ister of Avele Boys’ Agricul chool; Mr. R. Sanders, and O. Maitland, on short visits Zealand.
le Lave, Tonga’s champion with his attractive English ft Tonga by plane on August Fiji. has had a busy three introducing his wife to his home and a multitude of is. The first month was spent s family on Hunga, an island nouth of the Vava’u harbour, ig his stay in Tonga he each of the main centres,
[?]age of interest to old and new Terri [?]ok place at the Church of the Holy [?]ort Moresby, recently, between Miss [?] and Mr. Gerry King, [?]e was born at Wau, when her father, Ryan, now of Edgecliff, Sydney, was [?]f W. R. Carpenter and Co., there in ays. Her mother, Mrs. Margaret Ryan known member of the postal staff at [?]g is with the Commonwealth Bank at [?]sby, and is a Queenslander. [?]tion was held at the Boroko Hotel, guests were welcomed by the bride's
Vava’u, Nukualofa and Ha’s ing exhibition boxing bouts place, and showing films a fights, and some persor records.
Mrs. Lave accompanies when he travelled around their three weeks in Ha’aj were able to visit many of tl distant islands to sse i travelling on the small ya« that was in Ha’apai waters time. Although seas wer they were able to get as Fotu’ha’a, a small 280 acr rising 200 feet out of the , the volcanic islands of £ Tofua, and one of the ir ficult of the inhabited islands to negotiate. Here s managed to get their projecto and show the first movies 1 ever been shown there.
From Fiji, Kitione plans a short visit to Tahiti beta on to New Zealand and England in time for Christ: * * * Mr. Hari Singh H. He; B.Sc., B.Ed., M.Ed., R.Kovi* of the RD Tata High S Jamshedpur, Hihar Provii cently joined the staff of t College, Ba, Fiji, at comme: of a three years contract.
Mr. H. M. Hochfeld„ president, Regulatory & Affairs for Matson Lines Francisco, arrived in Syd: August 26. to look-over affairs in Australia.
Before he joined Matson in 1957, he was Chief of the States Government Aid and Division for the Federal M Administration. He had be the Administration since : various executive capacities.
He was accompanied by M
Madame Paulette Day, a foundation * the Polynesian Association of Sydney paid a visit to Sydney from Brisbane: Day formerly lived in Makatea ano
Matson Lines vice-president South Pacific. Mr. Hochfeld Bj,ks in Sydney, Melbourne Irisbane with shippers, lead isinessmen, members of the and tourist industries and ment officials. inspected port facilities and led with stevedoring authori ,e operation of Matson’s two ger liners, Mariposa and rey, and four freighters, Ventura, Sonoma and ia.
Max Bay, Fiji’s Chief In of Schools, recently at the Commonwealth Education mce at Oxford, England, plans were approved for the ion of a Commonwealth ship Scheme in 1960. The , Mr. Bay reported, will cost 000,000 during the first five and Britain will provide 300 of this sum. A thousand ships will be provided.
[?]ol teachers from Hawaii, Mrs. Nancy [?] (left) and Mrs. Mildred Mesaka [?]aid a quick visit to Suva in August [?]ay home from a teachers' conference Pago. Together with another teacher [?]aii, Miss J. Kyle, they had been in attend the get-together of over 300 Samoa teachers by the government, rip was financed by the Barstow Foun- Samoa. They were surprised to find [?] was so large and modern. Most Hawaii still thought of Fiji in terms of headhunting, they said.
Mrs. R. D. Shaw, after their marriage [?]ma Chapel, Port Moresby, on August Shaw was the former Mrs. Hitchcock.
Photo: Papuan Prints.
The Rev. C. F. Gribble, < Secretary of Methodist C Missions, and a former mis in Tonga, was among six Prc ministers from NSW and ’ who left in July for an Offic behind the Iron Curtain.
They travelled by Air Ii New Delhi and a Russian took the delegation on to from there. Prague and Pckii also on the itinerary. * * * Mr. Herbert T. Kienzle,, whose distinguished war rec; eluded some extraordinaril’ work amongst the carrier tel the Kokoda Trail in the days of the war in Papua, in paid his first visit in 43 year; birth-place —Lev u k a, Fij Kienzle is now one of Paput known planters from the Valley.
He was accompanied on hi seas trip by his daughter, They were en route by air United States for a short vi Levuka, they were entertaii the Samoan community, and Fijians.
Mr. M. Gokal is at present three months’ business visit t« tralia, Hongkong, Japan, anc Guinea on behalf of his fir Kokal & Co., merchants, of Mr. Gokal recently made & visits to New Caledonia, the Hebrides, and Samoa. * * * Mr. R. J. Deland, the elde,i of Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Delano of New Guinea, has gainer degree of Doctor of Philosop the University of Pennsylvan
Mr. W. Dent, sales manager for Fer Dickinson Pty., Ltd., agents for "[?] diesel engines, who will be leaving Sy[?] Qantas in September, accompanied by [?] engineer, to visit principal centres in New Guinea and the Solomon Isla[?]
teland graduated with an
degree in Science from tne jity of Adelaide in 1949, and some time at Macquarie in the Antarctic before tak a Fulbright scholarship in a.
\ndy Andresen, of Mando ;land, 20 miles from Honiara, Madang, New Guinea, for ning of the memorial to the Catchers at Madang. ig the war years, Mr. Andresen is time Coast Watching from lidge, well known for its surveys by Clutha Develop ed in a strategic position (king Henderson airfield.
md Mrs. A. T. Low are now permanently (they hope) on : Island, where Tom Low is icutive of the Burns Philp hey were there briefly in 1953, 11 in love with the pleasant and were happy to return.
Low was Lema Price, of a nown Vanua Levu planting and Mr. Low has served the Philp organisation in many 1 Pacific places, including , Rotuma and Fiji. Under
Sullivan wore a dress of powder-blue her marriage to Mr. Trevor Mc [?] of radio station 9AP, at the United [?]oroka, Port Moresby, on August 13.
Photo: Papuan Prints.
Mrs. Norman Godbold, after their [?]arriage at the Church of England, [?]ecently. The bride was formerly Miss [?]earson. Photo: L: Chin.
persuasion, Mrs. Low is a writer; and this is how scribed Norfolk Island, as it from the plane which them back from New Zeall “A feeling of deep conten over us when we saw again had longed to see, th> remembered Norfolk Island checkerboard farms, wind' roads, old homes nestling high hedges, the convict-stai grim as ever), the eternal s clawing the black cliffs; and ing above all, the Norfolk b tall and free.” * * * Public tribute has bee; justifiably to the services n the West Samoan community J. C. Thieme, during the Department crisis there i (See this issue.) Dr. Thieme has an inti history. His father also medical practitioner, a C who settled in Western Samo it was a German Colon married the attractive part daughter of a Samoan family. Dr. and Mrs. E Thieme were highly-e; residents of Apia, and they re there after World War I. Dr. died there between the Wa Mrs. Thieme sent their three ♦ —Hans, Maria and Fritz—t relations in Germany. The educated there, but then were up in World War 11. Their meantime, lived in Apia.
After the war, Mrs. Thie to work to get her three o back to Samoa —a very difficu then, in the circumstances ever, they rejoined her abi years ago—Dr. J. C. (now a q medical man, whose servic* gladly accepted by the Medii partment); Maria, a clever tary and linguist (who lab taken over a photography H in Apia); and Fritz, a motor-engineer.
Step by step, Dr. Thieme tc a larger share of the work: Medical Department until, last couple of years, he has one of the Department’s mai
Photographed in Sydney—Mr. Tom Norfolk Island, with Mr. Norman Stee[?] mother was a Quintal from Non[?] —T[?]
e advices from London say le was more surprised than laid Garvey, KCMG (late ir of Fiji) when the Home y offered him the appoint ; Administrator of the Isle -a gubernatorial job carry i it a comfortable Govern [ouse, a substantial salary erm of 7 years, maid had just purchased a a lovely little Suffolk village applying himself to a little I farming. maid and Lady Garvey were » the Isle of Man on Sep -14. and he was to be sworn Jastle Rushen, an ancient where such ceremonies have ace for hundreds of years, lonstitution of the Isle of elder than that of England, liament has two chambers — tive Council and the elected of Keys—and they meet j under the presidency of ernor. * * * )f the chief executives of W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd., idolph Carpenter, with his I son, left Fiji in August ney, after 21 years in the Mr. Randolph Carpenter is son of the founder of the y, the late Sir Walter h Carpenter, and a son of H. Carpenter, the present irman. . J. Townsend, son of the A. P. Townsend and Mrs. id, of Kuru Plantation, New was married on September iney, to Miss Elaine Audrey rhey met about 18 months n the bride was working in I Mr. Townsend visited Suva loliday. The wedding took St. Anne’s Church of Eng irathfield, and was followed ception at Amory, Ashfield. mg couple will live in the
[?]inbrigge and Miss Enid Hilton were [?]t Taurama Chapel, Port Moresby, August 3. Mr. Bainbrigge is a well [?]wn local sports commentator.
Photo: Papuan Prints.