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cs of the Pago Pago tuna i Industry has encouraged wcific territories. Mr. A. C. of Levuka, Fiji, made m ast year without much suc recently Wellington (NZ) man D. E. W. Trayler has Fiji with a representative Mitsui organisation, Japan’s industrial combine. Head of Vler s firm, Mr. James Luey, irn Chinese, was in Suva in I,hen went on to Japan, leav- Trayler in residence at ea. “No comment yet”, was wer to enquiries made to Mr. in May, but Fiji residents etching development with Merest.

VlP’s have their troubles.

Y. Helmi, Indonesian Am or to Australia, arrived at i’s airfield, Port Moresby, on official visit in May to find is baggage had been left be i Sydney. Weary and drawn in all-night flight, and anxi get to Government House shower and change, he had t three hours for a following t to arrive with his luggage, say the same thing once led to Territories Minister Hasluck, who was no happier.

Charles H. Gurd, physician list at Colonial War Memorial ;al, Suva, is in the USA with

visitor to the Polynesian Association was attractive Tiapara, of Rarotonga, Cook Islands. -Tele-Photos.

and daughter. The reason: i,Rockefeller Foundation has d him a $2,200 grant to study I education and cardiology in Utes. ♦ ♦ ♦ the inauguration of a new llu-Tahiti service by South , Air Lines last month, French ioia received a fortune in ;:ty through articles in US s*ast newspapers. One of them, as Polly Noyes, travel editor Francisco Sunday Chronicle, [ out that Tahitians will all iohat SPAL is American—for sraft (operated by the grand i Captain Robert Dollar, whose rice plied the trade route of

Mcific and elsewhere), bears

t;n of the Yankee dollar on se and tail.

snsland peanut growers have touting lately and demanding . measures to stop imports of Guinea peanuts which, they are crippling their industry. :mwealth Minister for Primary iry, Mr. C. E. Adermann, how save them a jolt in April when ijsed the opinion at Kingaroy UN “could take away Aus -15 rights in New Guinea if she >t ‘play fair’ in the adminis -1 of the territory”. He added y, “Apparently those farmers 'ant to stop NG from finding ;ket for her products are pre to have her handed over to >r country”. That was telling * * * Salote, of Tonga, who is at t on a visit to Epsom, New id, will fly across to Australia AL on June 6 with three at

[?]for the Royal Easter Show in April [?]w Guineans Topeuk and Elliott Elijah, [?] questions from visitors to the official [?]i-New Guinea exhibit. See page 41.

tendants, for a week’s stayj several years since her last and she can depend on a v welcome.

Mr. Leicester Cook, who ws years Government Treasurer i Financial Secretary) in We Samoa, retired a short time and now is growing cocoa farm “in the bush” in Samos has been in the Islands for the 30 years, going to Rarotonga ir as secretary to the Resident 1 missioner of the Cook Is., then to Samoa as accountant in back to the Cooks as treasurer] finally returning to Samoa in Polynesia, he thinks, is fine.

After 40 years with ffi Hedstrom Ltd, the last six as ager of Savusavu branch, Fiji Gavin Snow has retired and ha will concentrate on plan- He has copra at Nukuloa andl wai, Vanua Levu. MH’s new savu manager will be Mr.

Lapham, from Suva.

Fead Islander (New Guinea) Tonagina Tam with his family at an investiture held on kolon Estate, Anir Island in April. Then Ireland District Commissioner M. Heales sented Tonagina with a Bronze Medal from Royal Humane Society for his "courag humanity" in rescuing Raymond Lacey drowning at Babase Island some time at is holding the framed citation.

The mother of Mr. Graeme Carson, of Mr[?] Estate, Anir Island, was hostess in Ap[?] large crowd of visitors who arrived at the presentation of a Bronze Medal to [?] (above). Five hundred natives also the investiture and later took part in and dancing,

INew Guinea, as in other gambling by natives is a Gthat’s hard to control. But it ;» tough on the relatives, too, v. R. J. Goldhart reported to oroka District Advisory Coun- April. He told of one player sard game who gambled away ;fe. The council voted to make trough investigation of the ing influence in Eastern High-

n the other side of the world, ik Island Council, in April, ;ed a letter from Mr. R. S. :m, of Clackmannanshire, Scot i offering for sale an old wood ving of NI, dated 1856. It shows ilk Island from Flagstaff Hill, lew home of the Pitcairn lers” and has an accompany xcount of the island’s bleak y up to 1856, from the early isation days by free settlers onvicts from NSW. The coun ted the letter on to the Ad

Sydney in the nursing profession is Fagamoto, of Suva. She is of Rotuman descent. —Tele-Photos.

a first visit to the Polynesian Asso of Sydney recently were Mrs. Paillard [?]ss Des Planque, of Noumea, with Mr. [?]ex Rowland, formerly of Noumea. —Tele-Photos.

ministration with the sugge that the treasury part with tl asked for by Mr. Lawson so the engraving might hang ir proposed NI Museum.

Rev. and Mrs. William P. We with small daughters Sarah Jennifer and Stephanie, wen San Francisco, in April, from American Lutheran Mission st at Wapenamunda, NG. Mr. W; will go to the University Michigan to do language studi« six months.

The long round of native wells in the Solomons has H for the High Commissioner foe Western Pacific, Sir John (I who early in 1961 begins prior to his retirement. Sir was in Canberra on business inr May. In a national radio broas he told Australians the W© Pacific was taking an increa

A new member has joined the staff of tl[?] tralian Consulate in Noumea. She is Mis[?] Louise, just a few weeks old. She is v[?] under the close supervision of her moth Rodney Hodgson (nee Ramsey of [?] England) and advised by father Rodney H[?] popular Australian Consul in Noume Photo: Free

After 15 months in Hollandia, NNG, a tralian liaison officer, Mr. Patrick Mollis Sydney in April aboard the "Maripose seven months long leave. He is on as cruise.

*;st in the world, and the >iis might one day decide to sc “some form of closer asso m”. He managed to give the session that he personally i.ln’t be surprised at some kind i.ion with New Guinea.

Dudley McCarthy, Assistant ttary with the Australian De ment of Territories and Aus m Senior Commissioner on the i Pacific Commission, was in York in April for a couple of ;,hs helping out Australia’s rep .tatives on the Trusteeship .cil of UNO. It is possible he later take over from special ■jsentative J. H. Jones, after mg some UNO experience.

ie of Papua-New Guinea’s best vn native affairs officer —Mr. \. Roberts—is shortly retiring 35 years in the Territory. He ne Director of Native Affairs, isition which he had held over :difficult times l of the last few i>, with the Administration i-ging its structure and frequent re problems arising, including Telefomen murders, the

[?] Samoa's grand old man —Mr. R. P. [?] celebrated his 80th birthday in April. [?] oys perfect health and takes an active i public affairs, and is a member of the Board and the Planters' Association. Mr. is has lived in West Samoa for 60 years.

ecently, Mr. Paul Kamsler, of Torres North Australia, and Mr. Peter Vete of Nukualofa, Tonga. —Tele-Photos.

Raluana troubles and the Navuneii shootings. The man tipped to t( over from Mr. Roberts is Mr. Ke McCarthy, whose New Guinea I perience has been almost as lonj

Another retirement of an old Guinea hand is that of Mr. Juj Kelly from the Supreme Cour Papua-New Guinea. He first T to the Territory as a solicitoi 1932 and set up practice in Ral He and his wife will live in Brisb

Member of the globe-gir 1 : brigantine Yankee’s crew, un water photographer Buz Fa T j has been entertaining US natJ magazine readers with stories o experiences in the South Sea£ PIM subscriber forwarded a from The American Weekhl April 10 dealing with Fawcett’ss in Rarotonga, Cook Islands" comment is a row of exclaim marks. Fawcett colourfully deso how he went underwater swimr in tabu “Avana sea passage, w 600 years ago seven war canoes

Recent weddings in Lae, New Guinea, in[?] that of Beatrice Harris to MAL pilot Murphy. Miss Harris was formerly secreta the Morobe District Commissioner Mr. H.

The ceremony was performed at St. Man

Another April wedding for Lae was tl Sister P. Currell, of Lae Hospital, to Lae[?] ing contractor, Mr. Jack Punch. The cen[?] was performed in the Lutheran Chun

xxmga lagoon for NZ and where a potupoa Cffhrit) now rests”. a weird and inexplicable ex nce in a reef cave, he went back i beach, but shortly afterwards mnconscious and was revived by the anti -tapu treatment rainuku Ariki, the local chief.

I Rarotonga residents' view this monster and the sceptic who to defy an ancient curse”, as Tory’s title put it, doesn’t bear King.

the April Milne Bay (NG) Government Council meeting, llent Masouru Mark censured an women for abandoning their aonal grass skirt in favour of oean dress, and councillors imously agreed that women ild wear their national dress [pride in any community”. The ;il had heard how a young an woman returned from a years nursing course in Mel ie with European dresses, lip and high-heels and had for i her native dress. Commented iJ Government Anthropologist tes Julius, “National dress con of a grass skirt, tattoos, and mg else” —an outfit not exactly opriate in Melbourne or Syd he indicated. * * * reless operator Falavo Sosene, at 70, is the oldest operator »th years and service with the :rt & Ellice Islands Colony, has y given away his radio work retired. He joined the Govern service in 1937 and was ►ned at Beru during the war the Japanese arrived and ted the New Zealand post office an Coastwatchers, who were killed with others at Tarawa.

ecent visitors to the Polynesian Asso of Sydney, Miss Jill Diamond of Los geles, with Mr. Ray Groom of Suva. —Tele-Photos.