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>e Tungi, of Tonga, returned ualofa from Fiji on January »«r a business tour of a • of Asian countries as far s Ceylon. He was in Japan >ouple of weeks, and he also ;ome time profitably examin >e coconut industry in the :ines. He said, in Suva, that ends to establish a modern >processing plant in Tonga— not only the flesh for copra iccated coconut, but also to le husks into fibre and the ito buttons.
W. L. Verrier, British Phos- Commission manager at Island, has retired after 35 service with BPC. Mr. T. has been appointed as his sor. * * * Commodore P. C. Jameson, SO, DFC, recently succeeded mmodore J. F. Roulston, CBE, DFC, as commander of the is h nuclear test unit at mas Island, Central Pacific, igh there have been no bomb r or over a year, a permanent i military unit is stationed on ofi. ♦ ♦ * jn Ratieta, of Marakei, Gil slands, has been appointed, at ;e of 24, an Assistant Admin ve Officer. Educated at Queen
well-dressed Director of Works wears.
J. H. Commin, Fiji Works Director, it [?]ng suit. He donned it in January to inspection of the screws of the liner [?]",which met with an accident in Suva. See page 127. -Rob Wright, Fiji PRO.
ria School, Fiji, he is the jest Assistant AO ever to be in ted in the Colony. He is the ;f Assistant AO Bauro Ratieta.
. John T. Wallis, well and irably known over many years ie manager of Messrs. W. R. enter & Co. (London) Ltd., re on December 31 (having led the retiring age) and will London in March for Sydney, ind Mrs. Wallis are Australians, lave many friends and relations 3W; and, as he is “a young 65”, •obably will take up some com ial pursuit in Sydney. Mr. is took over Carpenters’ Lon office in 1944, and has gained >st extensive knowledge of the less of marketing copra, coco oil, cocoa and so forth in the pean markets —he was pro nt in the activities surround he MOF contract, under which in bought all South Pacific i for a period of nine years.
Wallis has been succeeded in on by Mr. W. D. Ashburn, who oeen manager of the Carpenter >ing interests in Vancouver in it years.
•s. J. Bunney, and Miss C. ley, wife and teenage daughter Captain Bunney, of the Aus a-New Guinea Line, were 3ngers from Sydney to Europe tie Royal Rotterdam Lloyd Line
[?] n Wallis, Carpenters' manager in London, [?] as retired. This photograph was taken [?] n London in January. See below.
en isei Vivi, Miss Olivina Fauhiva and [?] ary Mafi, who attended the Marist Con [?]in Auckland, all spent their Christmas holidays in Tonga.
vessel Willem Ruys, in Dece] They will spend some montl the United Kingdom and the tinent.
Mr. Grainger Johnson, eldesi of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Johnsor is chief executive of the Carp interests in Fiji) has just concl three years’ service in the Lo office of the Carpenter group. ] to leave for Melbourne immedis where he will marry a girl f: of his Melbourne college days; then he and his bride will g Rabaul, where Mr. Johnson spend some time on the New Gi staff of W. R. Carpenter & Co. 1 subsidiary, Coconut Products I
After four years as Attache Press and Cultural Affairs to Royal Netherlands Embassy in < berra, and head of the Netherl Information Service in Sydney, D. J. van Wijnen will leave Sy in March, with his wife and daughters, for a new post in W ington. He has been appointed !
Secretary for Press and Cull Affairs for the Netherlands Emfc there. Mr. van Wijnen has r himself a very popular repres ative in Australia. In February was making a farewell call on P and NNG.
Brother Stanislaus, SM, has returned teaching duties in Western Samoa after to New Zealand.
Medical Officer Harry T. Nemaia, of Niue, [?] ing home following a course in New Ze[?] was accompanied by his mother, Mrs. N [?] now resident in Auckland. They travel the "Tofua".
E. R. Bevington, Financial rtary in Fiji, left for the United dom on leave in January fin itely following the conclusion e lengthy budget session of the native Council. In his absence 3 P. Ritchie, who recently re d from leave in Northern Ire will be Acting Financial stary.
. Peter William Fisher arrived . the United Kingdom in Janu to take up an appointment as cal officer at Lautoka, Fiji. Mrs. er is also a doctor —Dr. Anne nica Fisher. Dr. Colin L. K. waine and his wife —a trained e also recently arrived in i from the United Kingdom )in the medical department.
r. Usman Khan, 18-year-old son tfr. Samudar Khan, of Saravu, Fiji, has recently left for the ted States to study medicine at Pacific Grove High School for [icine, San Francisco. Mr. Usman in’s nephew, Dr. M. Y. Hussein, attached to Ryde Hospital, ney.
Gale, his daughter Mrs. F. Mataipule, [?]ivid Patu, were passengers aboard "Tofua" [?]ing home to Apia in January after holi daying in New Zealand.
and Mrs. J. J. MacCauley and daughter bound for Penrhyn, Northern Cooks, in [?]ry, travelling in the "Maui Pomare" from and. Mr. MacCauley, who comes from the of Lewis and has recently been on the of the Maori Land Court at Wanganui, NZ, been appointed Resident Agent, Penrhyn, suc cession to Mr. David Metuarau, who re cently retired.
Mr. Georges Poulet, Secre General of French Polynesia, been Acting-Governor of that t tory since Governor Pierre Si returned to France in Novembe is thought in Papeete that Sicaud may soon be succeeded new Governor. * * * Mr. Valdemar J. Andersen, S( tary for British Solomon Is. tectorate Affairs at Honiara, gether with Mrs. Andersen children, are on their way to United Kingdom via New Zea on furlough this month. Mr. Ar sen was originally from Palmei North, NZ.
Mr. F. A. Champion, who was trict Commissioner of Central trict, Pt. Moresby, and a me of one of the best known far in Papua, retired at the en January. Born in Papua (his fi was Mr. H. W. Champion, a fo Government Secretary), he j( the District Services Dept, i patrol officer in 1936, and progr through field posts and senior tions for the next 24 years, bi only by service with ANGAU ing the last war. His two brot Ivan and Claude, both hold offices in the P-NG Administrs the former as Chief Native I Commissioner and the lat Director of Civil Affairs. Mr.
Mrs. Champion will live in r< ment in Brisbane. * * * Mr. G. H. Leopard, who has s< the Union Steam Ship Co. as ] ager in several Island areas has lately been branch manage Gisborne, NZ, has been appo assistant manager at Aucklan succession to Mr. G. R. Cole, has been transferred to Invercs as branch manager. ♦ * * Under a rearrangement of j diction in Papua-New Guinea, i new Roman Catholic bishops been appointed in the Territory.
Pastor and Mrs. R. N. Heggie, of the S[?] Day Adventist Mission, travelled to Rar[?] in January to take up a new appoint During the war they were stationed in but Pastor Heggie has recently been at to the Australasian Missionary College[?] Sydney.
Father Virgil Copas, formerly : arwin, who will be vicar olic at Port Moresby; an Ameri- IFather Bernarding, who will at Mt. Hagen; and Father ing, from Germany, whose quarters will be at Goroka.
5. Lilieta Soaki, and her two -old daughter, Lata, from a, have been receiving some rable publicity in Queensland aapers recently. Her husband Brisbane for four years on an altural science scholarship, ile at Queensland University.
Queenslanders have been tied by her pleasant, educated ter and the fact that, having iculated, she intends to spend text few years becoming an ex at dressmaking and cooking.
F. M. Kunth, of Knuthenborg, Denmark, [?]ng Danish fruit grower, returned on his visit to the Cook Islands in Januar” [?]ng in the "Maui Pomare" from Aucklar
[?]arriage took place in Port Moresby re [?]of Miss Elizabeth Roscoe and Mr. G.
Mrs. Ross is the daughter of Mr. G. T. [?] e, P-NG Director of Education, and Mrs. [?]e. —Papuan Prints.
Mr. T. H. Bot, Netherlands Ui Secretary for New Guinea Ai who has been on an inspection of Dutch New Guinea, crossed to Australian Papua-New Gi early in February and spent a in various centres. He later down to Canberra to hold discus with Commonwealth Govern officials before departing for V ington, USA, by air on Februai
Lae’s most lavish wedding celebrated on January 30, when Anna Tong, of Rabaul, was ma to Mr. James Seeto, son of or the leaders of Morobe’s Ch community, Mr. Seeto Kui. 1 were over 500 guests, includii large party flown from Rg in a chartered DCS aircraft, ceremony was given VIP treat] —it was recorded by TV can and later televised over Cha A Svdney.
Mr. J. L. Chalmers, for the 32 years with Colonial Sugar R( ing Company in Fiji, reaching position of acting chief mam and lately Resettlement Off Nausori, has transferred to Sy< to take up the position of c technical field officer.
Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Saywell and Victor bound for Rarotonga in January. Mr. S[?] has been appointed to the Administration as Chief Clerk, in succession to Mr. M. who has been transferred.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Gurau, well-known res[?] of Apia, returned there in the "Tofua" I[?] January following three months vacation members of their family who have settl[?] New Zealand.
Alan Lennox-Boyd and Lady :eia Lennox-Boyd, who paid a visit to Tarawa by RNZAF :-boat from Fiji in December, a round trip from Suva to a, Niue and Samoa in January nary in the Tofua. They were t to Tahiti from Fiji on Feb -15.
e to leave Rabaul early in h for a new position with his any in Port Moresby is Mr. ge Clarke, a director of Burns ) (New Guinea) Limited and haul resident since 1938. has been BP manager at ul for nearly six years. He will i to an executive position at the any’s head office following a -al reshuffle of company opera . Mr. Clarke has taken a inent part in Rabaul affairs — i president of Rabaul Amateur Club, president of Rabaul ball Association, a trustee of Jew Guinea Club and a trustee e Returned Servicemen’s League abaul. He is also a member of ,ul Town Advisory Council. * * * nesa Sikivou, Fourth Fijian ber of the Fiji Legislative icil, lately senior master at n Victoria School, and the id Fijian to attain the distinc of an MA degree (1955), has promoted to Education Officer, lori. He will supervise some 90 Dls at Tailevu, Naitasiri, and i Provinces.
[?] nne Cameron models a frock at a Teenage [?] Parade held on the lawn of Mrs. Mary [?] n's home in Lae, NG. Mrs. Strachan [?] ed the parade and donated proceeds to [?] e Youth Club. Other models included [?] d and Barbara Mohr, Sue Noblet, and Judith and Barbara Griffith. —Pat Robertson.