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our P-NG Territorians were in lied in the Queen’s New Year aours list. Mr. Bob Bunting,

IC, prominent businessman and

sident of the P-NG Branch of urned Soldiers’ League, and Mr.

E Macinnes, Director of Lands ;e 1952, were honoured with the E British Empire Medals were ferred on Mr. W. Berlin, who been in the Commonwealth De tment of Works in P-NG, either Assistant Superintendent or jerintendent of Stores since 1939; I to Mr. A. D. McDonald, CDW jervisor at Rabaul, not only for Department of Works record also for his part in the Mt. nington eruption in 1951.

All races shared in Fiji’s New *ar’s Honours. Dr. Charles H. urd, phys i c i a n-specialist and edical Superintendent at the

Sydney in early January were Mr. and Mrs. [?]nk Johnson, down from New Guinea, on [?]ir honeymoon. The bride was the former [?]s Lois Niall, only child of the Morobe [?]trict Commissioner, Mr. H. R. Niall, and [?]s. Niall, of Lae. They will return late this [?]nth to Finschhafen where Mr. Johnson is [?]h the Department of Education. This photo graph was taken at their wedding.

Photo: O. Brabant.

olonial War Memorial Hospital, uva, received the OBE. To mark ii s retirement as Government winter on December 31, after 25 sars in the Fiji Government Print ig Department, Mr. Alfred Elphick ►ceived the MBE. Joni Misikini, a Ijian Magistrate, with 30 years of yal service, also received the MBE.

ssistant Superintendent Lai Singh,

i pre-retirement leave, after 31 sars in the Fiji Police Force re jived the Colonial Police Medal.

Two names of Islands interest in le Australian Honours announced n January 1 were: Knight achelor to Professor Edward Ford, ead of the School of Public Health topical Medicine, Sydney Uni ersity, and OBE to Mr. J. R. [alligan, who retired in November fter many years’ service in con ection with Australian Pacific territories and as Australia’s Senior ommissioner on the South Pacific ommission.

[?] r. and Mrs. A. E. Walker recently left Sydney [?] r Rabaul on their first trip to the Islands [?] spend a short time with their son, Norman, [?] o has been teaching for the last two years.

[?] arried at the Lutheran Church, Lae, Miss [?]atherine Galiatsatou, a Greek girl who had [?]een in Australia only a month and knew little English, to Mr. George Malanof, of Lae Club.

Photo: O. Brabant.

in the Solomon Islands, Mr.

Idemar Jens Andersen, Secretary Protectorate Affairs, was raised m MBE to OBE in the New Year nours.

Jr. and Mrs. T. W. Canter ischer arrived at Mangaia Island, ok Group, in December, where . Canter-Visscher has been jointed Agricultural Extension icer. A Dutchman, he held a dlar post in Tonga.

)r. Rene Catala, who established i Noumea aquarium, succeeded in cember in successfully transport : specimens of fluorescent coral m New Caledonia to the big vers aquarium, Belgium. Many empts have been made to achieve s, but without success. However, . Catala made special prepara ns and the colourful specimens > ich left Noumea by plane in De nber were delivered alive in rope a few days later.

Vlr. Jim Leahy, Goroka, New xinea, “coffee baron”, was visit l New Zealand in December, nned in a corner he told a news per man that he harvested his st 20 tons of coffee in 1953, and Is year he expected a record rvest, which might gross £5OO per i. 3e said that in 1948, after 19 years

[?]B. W. Booth, of Rotorua, NZ, was bound [?]Tonga in the December "Matua" to take [?] a position as assistant mechanical engineer with the Government.

[?]and Mrs. N. R. Robinson, with Denise and [?]nt, were bound from Auckland to Fiji in [?]ember, where Mr. Robinson was paying a [?]iness visit on behalf of NZ Forest Products, Ltd.

of gathering gold from the grounc he saw that there was going to b more and easier gold to be picke from coffee shrubs, so he switche over, and things turned out just lik he’d guesed.

Mr. G. Lock, a South Africa] expert on sisal growing, visited th NG Highlands and other areas ii the Territory in December to stud; the possibility of introducing th crop in P-NG on a paying basis He was for 25 years sisal researcl officer in Tanganyika.

Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd, who waj Britain’s Colonial Secretary befon the October elections arrived in Suv£ on January 12, on the first stage

Married in the Paton Memorial Church, Po[?] Vila, recently, were Miss Rosemary McFarlan[?] of Suva, and Mr. Peter Erbsleben, of Hambur[?] Germany. They met in Suva, and are now living in Vila where Mr. Erbsleben is with Wn[?] Breckwoldt and Co.

Photo: Fung Kue[?]

Mr. D. E. Carson, a native labour officer with the Department of Civil Aviation since 1951, returned to Port Moresby in the "Bulolo" re cently after a leave in Sydney.

a Pacific tour, with Lady iricia Lennox-Boyd, Mr. Lennox rd, who is still Conservative MP Mid-Bedfordshire, was made imember of the Companions Honour before he left the UK. 5 two-months’ tour is in a pri e capacity—he recently became naging director of Guinness Son Uo., the large UK brewers. The /spapers have made much of the t that his great-uncle, Aus ian-born Ben Boyd, who founded rdtown, on Twofold Bay, NSW, ; killed by natives in October, 1, in the Solomon Islands, when went ashore from the Wanderer, I that Mr. Lennox-Boyd “was ag to find out what happened to i”.

Ir. Jack Thurston, well known v Guinea shipping and plantation n, was in New Zealand in Jan y “looking at ships”.

Jiss Norma Journeaux, a World alth Organisation nurse-educator, ived in the Solomons recently to ;e charge of nurses training at atral Hospital, Honiara. She is

[?] ecent visitor to a meeting of the Polynesian [?] ciation of Sydney—Mr. Leslie Harmon, of Fiji. —Tele-Photo.

[?] land residents Misses Josephine and Freda [?] paid a holiday visit to their home island [?] polu, West Samoa, in December, travelling in the "Matua".

working under a plan agn to by the BSIP Governme: the WHO and UNICEF. Appro mately $5,000 will be supplied UNICEF to purchase textboc medical instruments, charts, 2 filmstrips as well as bicycles am Landrover. The programme, cov ing three years, will train nurses maternity and child welfare wc

Mr. Arthur Affleck took up post of Regional Director of C Aviation for Papua-New Guinea 1 month. He is no stranger to ' Territory, though—he was a p: with Pacific Air Transport Co.

NG in 1932-33, then returned Queensland to grow tobacco; wi back to NG to evacuate women s children by air in 1941, when ■ Japs were coming southwards; fl with the RAAF in the Pacific w then, in peacetime, led a party tl surveyed P-NG air facilities and s vices, in 1947. His job for the p 11 years has been Superintendent Flying Operations for the Depa ment of Civil Aviation in NSW.

Among the travellers in the December "Ma[?] from Auckland: Miss V. A. Parton of Ch[?] church, and Miss J. H. Petterson of Ne[?] (front) were having their first look at [?] Islands, and Mrs. S. Sene (right) was return home to Apia. They were farewelled in A[?] land by Mr. Edward Lio (left), and Mr.

Galo, both formerly of W. Samoa but resident in Auckland.

Another recent Port Moresby wedding — [?] Anne Morris to Mr. David Adams, at the Ro [?] Catholic Church. Mr. Adams is a member [?] well-known Port Moresby family. —Papuan Pri[?]

udge R. V. Kay, completing his icnd term as Chief Judge in the :ok Islands, returned to Auckland December with Mrs. Kay. His scessor had not been announced to early January.

Mr. Douglas C. Berry, chief survey aughtsman in the Cook Is. for a imber of years, will transfer to a nilar position at Auckland in arch. Mr. Ron L. Carrad, of ipier, has succeeded him at Raro nga. * * * Two important Qantas jobs in the lands were filled by new executives December—Mr. W. R. (“Nobby’) ,arke, QEA representative at Suva, inded over to Mr. Mervyn J. R. iwton, from Melbourne, and re irned to Australia with his family; id Mr. Ken Wightman, of Lae, oved across to Port Moresby as anager of the branch office there.

Mr. R. H. Morgan, supervisor of Luckland Zoo, has taken a Govern cient job at Tulagi, British Solomon stands. He plans to collect fauna ,nd fish life in his spare time for iverseas zoos.

[?]s Ania Fatu, and Miss Tauesi Paga, now Auckland, recently returned to Western Samoa on holidays.

Fiji visitors who met at the Polynesian Asso ciation's Christmas party in Sydney—Mary Hoi and Assistant Medical Officer Ban Lomaloma. —Tele-Photo.