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l. M. Wilson Rae, medical to the Secretary of State Colonies, visited the Gilbert lice Islands and Tonga in /ember during a fact-finding the Pacific. While in Fiji, nth, he personally inspected lly every medical establish . the Colony, and he opened lood transfusion room at the . War Memorial Hospital.
eonard Goodman, who spent 5 in various parts of Africa e Colonial Medical Service, en up the post of surgeon >t at Apia Government Hos- Western Samoa. With the appointments also of two ; physicians, Dr. H. Lehmann Jutta Schneider, five senior officers now are available hospital. * * * lean writer Wilmon B. , after a quick visit to Aus nd New Zealand in December, ) Apia to write a story on i Samoa’s political coming for the National Geographic ne, and an illustrated article with the resettlement of ou (Tin Can Island) of He may also visit Tahiti.
17 stone Sergeant-Major Kari of the [?]ua-New Guinea Constabulary, made impression on Melbourne when he [?]re in October-November to help launch [?]nea book by Peter Ryan (reviewed on Sergeant-Major Kari is one of the [?]acters in the book. In spite of what regarded as its "near summer tem the Sergeant-Major soon was shivering but could not find an overcoat big enough to fit him.
The High Commissioner fo Western Pacific, Sir John Guta nounced in November to; Solomon Islands Advisory c: that the Queen had approved z tension of his appointment. H continue as High Commis3 until early in 1961.
BBC documentary film David Attenborough and Ge Mulligan, who have already aspects of life in Tonga, and ii were in the New Hebrides i: vember filming there on thi stages of their four months 7 I tour. * * * Captain E. W. Harness, 1 Harbour Master at Suva, wr cently appointed to the imp post of Custodian, Auckland! versity College.
Rear-Admiral J. C. E v French commander-in-chief, area, accompanied by Capita Corvette van de Walle, and ai camp Ensign Vasseu Du visited New Zealand from Nou; guests of the New Zealand G ment in November-Decembe: * * * Mr. Gordon F. Russell, meteorological officer. Cook II with Mrs. Russell and daughb.
Sydney on vacation untill March.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Halstead, with lan and were bound for Taveuni, Fiji, from New in November. Mr. Halstead was reside 17 years ago.
Aboard the "Bulolo", NG bound in N[?] were Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Ireland (centr[?] farewelled by friends Mrs. E. Eckert and Mrs. H. Doe. Mr. and Mrs. Irela returning to Wau after a holiday to Australia.
A. G. Naylor, principal of iris’ Grammar School since turned to New Zealand in ?r to live in retirement. Be ;r departure, there were
is presentations and
,s at which present and old the school and members of rl Guide movement, with [iss Naylor had been actively jd, expressed their affection and their appreciation of k in Fiji.
nd Mrs. S. Epstein, of the an National Museum, Can re making a research study idvanced Tolai natives, New They have settled down at village for a year.
D. H. Urquhart, technical to Cadbury’s, spent two n the Solomon Islands re inspecting the Government ental cocoa plantation at
[?]a's leading Indian businessmen, Mr. [?]ai, who also has a branch of his [?]t Lautoka, returned to Fiji at the [?]vember, after a three months' visit to India.
[?]u Saipaia, of Auckland, paid a return Western Samoa in the "Tofua" in November.
Auki and private cocoa plai on Malaita and in Wesi Solomons. Hb expressed the o]( the BSI could produce good cp cocoa and indicated that, fro: experience, the industry was established in the Protectoras sound lines that would ens satisfactory export quality..
Urquhart should know—he: Director of Agriculture, Gold (now Ghana), where the best cocoa comes from, and since j{ Cadbury’s has made several in gations on cocoa in the Pacifr the South Pacific Commissio compiled separate technical ] about cocoa-growing in Fiji, M lands New Guinea, Western S and New Hebrides, as well s on coffee-growing in New Cale
Mr. Brian McCook, forms] with Fiji Airways and free pilot in Fiji, who left thi October, was reportsd to been in an aerial topdressing in Australia late in Novembe McCook was apparently unini
Mr. E. Hicks, District Commissioner Northern District of Papua, and his wif graphed on a recent visit to Kok —Php[?]
Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Doornbos and P [?] bound for Apia in the "Matua" in [?] Mr. Doornbos of Paremata, NZ, was [?] an appointment in the Western Sam office.
Douglas Eden, OBE, who ed the BSI Trading Gor in for the past 14 months, re at the end of November be of ill-health. He and Mrs. ,re due in Sydney by the Delos loniara in late December. Be oing to BSI, he was for 27 with NZ R.paration Estates istern Samoa, most of the s general manager. * * * B. (“Hop”) Ackland arrived ;kland from Suva, with Mrs. d by the Matua on December etirement. He joined the Fiji iment in 1940 and spent most career in the agriculture de nt as produce inspector. Be of his specialised knowledge industry, he was appointed er of Fijian Banana Ventures, iwing and shipping fruit to r hen the organisation was in 1950.
C. D. Rowley, principal of the than School of Pacific Admin on, Sydney, has been overseas ive for some time and Mr.
McAuley has been acting as pal. Mr. Rowley. has spent time in the United States and present engaged in research in London. He is expected to i to the school early in 1960. * * * Richard Lowe, the Governor lam for the last three years, ed in November and will re to the States where, among things, he intends to finish )ook, Problem In Paradise. nor Lowe is well known in the Pacific where, before his fitment to Guam, he was Gov of American Samoa for three In Guam, in November, the
Mrs. J. R. Lindsay, with daughters right), aged four, and Beverley (three) Iney on the November "Bulolo” for resby, where Mr. Lindsay will take up [?]ear post as Government Statistician. say was the Statistician for the Northern Territory.
betting was that Joseph FI editor and publisher of the G Daily News, who is an islai would be appointed next Govej Successor to Governor Lowe American Samoa, Peter Colei was also a local-born.
Rzv. Father Henry Hoff, has resumed duties as pilot fo: Catholic Mission at Alexish NG, after a stay of 14 montl USA on aviation duties, furl and for medical treatment. D' his absence, Rev. Father J( Walachy, SVD, piloted and n tained the Mission’s Cessna, to supply some 14 stations ir Highlands.
Mr. Ken Bain, acting d Financial Secretary, and Mi Smith, superintendent of C Aviation, represented Fiji at 13th annual meeting of the i Pacific Air Transport Council, m opened at Chateau Tongariro.
Zealand, on December 3. Met of the SPATC are UK, Austl NZ, Canada and Fiji; and NS the responsibility of administ Nadi international airport, Fiji running it on behalf of the Coi
Mr. and Mrs. David Vaka returned to alofa in the November "Matua". Mr. having completed a training course in Zealand, is joining the Government print Tonga.
Passengers on the "Tofua", Mr. and Mr Pokape of Auckland, and formerly of Niu made the round trip in November.
John H. Brandt, Director of tion in the US Trust Terri if the Pacific, who has been ng his furlough wandering h some of the British Pacific ries, was in New Guinea in iber. He collects native arti
and carvings, principally for
snver Art Museum, Colorado, and found the Sepik Valley Df P-NG a good source of al. His headquarters are at Caroline Islands.
George M. Turner, who began asiness career with Burns & Co. Ltd., Sydney, in 1933, 10 went to California in 1948 in Francisco manager of Commonwealth Pacific Air nd, later, Qantas, resigned as ve director of the Pacific Area Association in November. :cessor, Mr. F. Marvin Plake, y passed through the Islands a month-long trip of the and the East to organise the annual PATA conference set for February 20 to 26 at :hurch, NZ.
T. A. Handford, superin t of police and prisons in BSI, > going on leave, will not re o the Protectorate late next ►ut will go to Fiji as deputy
Cribble, Assistant Government Printer, Cribble, Bronwyn and John returned in the November "Matua", following Vacation in Europe and the UK.
[?]thbound from Auckland in November Matua" were Mr. leru Molioo of Manga [?] and Mr. Peter Tao of Wanganui—off [?]t their native land of Western Samoa.
police commissioner at Suva.
R. O. Hassell, whose place 1: taking, left Suva on the Nove: Tofua en route to South A; where he will live in retiremen served in Swaziland and Bechu land, SA, before going to Fi 1954. During this leave-ts period, senior-superintendent \ Wigley, of Suva police district, be acting deputy commissione
Mr. L. A. J. Peters, a Dutch clerk in the P-NG Administn has just recently opened a me six-bedroom hotel at Maprik, ‘ District, which will be run bj wife. It surely must be serving of the world’s smallest re drinking clienteles administr personnel, traders and others h area number fewer than 20.
Peters hope that eventually rest from neighbouring districts wil the hotel as a vacation spot.
Taito Onosimo, one of 28 income family men who oc dwellings on the Fiji Ho Authority’s estate at Raiwaqa ceived the key to his new 1 from the Governor (Sir Ker Maddocks) when the new st ment was officially opened November 28. After a slow start pilot project promises to be a useful enterprise for the Colo
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Albert with son Robe[?] and daughter Maureen (10), left Sydney "Bulolo” in November for Port Moresby, Mr. Albert is employed by the Depart[?] Civil Aviation. Mrs. Albert works in the tory at the Port Moresby Hospital. Mr. a[?] Albert have been in P-NG since 1945, an[?] returning after a trip round Austral[?]
Mr. and Mrs. P. Mathews returned to S[?] the "Tofua" in November at the conclus a four months' world trip. Mr. Mathews the Public Works Department.