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1 the Australian Parliament, in f backbencher and former Min- Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes, >;ted a question to the Acting titer for External Affairs: ‘Tn > of the fact that the Russian ssentative at the United Nations recently criticised Australia for Having set an exact target date uie granting of independence for ) Guinea, will the Minister in t the Australian representative con the next occasion when the tsr is raised he should inquire [ Russia when it proposed to set iact target date for the restora of independence of Latvia, jania, Estonia, Poland, East j,any, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Lnia, Ukraine and Bulgaria, just ention a few of the countries ii have been absorbed into =a’s colonial empire since World

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;8n Salote of Tonga received more attention than normal : a short visit to Sydney in where she did some reading rly Tongan history in the s Mitchell Library. As she got f TEAL aircraft from NZ she brooch that had been given one of her sons, Prince Tungi, ’s Premier. Despite Queen ’s charming insistence that y should go to any bother finding it, the Sydney public great interest in the missing t and two days later it turned i an automatic sweeping ne on the airport.

emus, son of Mr. K. H. Hemus, Principal a College, is causing some interest in fa with his one-wheeled bicycle, which s might be the only vehicle of its type Islands. Brent is capable of putting it [?]h just about any kind of manoeuvre.

• many adventures, Mrs. 3d Staples returned home to ilia in May with her family naving sailed to the United in 1957 aboard the yacht i'st. The yacht had been fcd in Hawaii, and the Staples fcd a great deal of publicity e Government in f ervention Jl them to remain in the I Mr. Staples didn't come home ).e family. He is in Tahiti writ oout his adventures with 'St.

ii Tapini (Papua) native unployee Kevin Haraha found the outgoing mail he was ug a letter addressed to his send by a rival he thought r w what to do with it. He :it, read it and burnt it. That, T , was the allegation made him in a court hearing in afore he was committed for

■ was a major and somewhat ? move-a round of top 'es of Burns Philp (Sou f h united in May, following the Aon of Mr. M. H. Helsen ae chief executive post in Mr. Helsen had been the 'e head of the Company at

in insect borne diseases, notably borne, with the South Pacific Com- Dr. M. O. T. Iyengar, and his charm (above) are soon to leave Noumea, [?]y are extremely popular, to return to [?]cently Dr. Iyengar visited French Poly [?]give advice, including suggestions for [?] mosquitoes in the region of Papeete's [?]airport, to make it conform to inter national health regulations.

Photo: Fred Dunn.

married in Port Moresby—Miss Pat to Mr. A. Russell. The ceremony place at the Ela Beach Church.

Photo: Papuan Prints.

Suva for several years, since retirement of the late Mr. j Trotter. He also was a Director, was a prominent figure in Fiji,' he also was the Consul there France.

Following Mr. Helsen’s depart Mr. J. Stewart was promoted f the managership at Ba to be rr ager of the Suva branch, j Siewart joined the Burns Philp service, from Australia, before ’W War II ; and he has been at S Levuka, Labasa and Apia as accd ant, and at Labasa, Pago Ba as branch manager.

It is reported from Suva that L. R. Pearson, well known j leading member of the Burns I staff for many years at Suva, who recently became a cl executive of Northern Hotels will return to the Burns Philp vice as a branch manager.

A man who has had a lot with giving the Cook Islands down copra industry a much-r shot in the arm, Mr. H. O. I Deurs, has left there because health. Mr. van Deurs, orig from Denmark, has been ass to the Director of Agriculti the Cooks. * * * The official BSIP news-she now given an account of wh people at Wanderer Bay told Lennox-Boyd about the death great uncle Ben, in 1850, whs Lennox-Boyd visited there rei An old native, whose fathe a child when Ben Boyd was told the former British Sec for the Colonies that he remer his father saying that the isl had helpfully gone out t Wanderer to tow her t< anchorage, but Boyd’s mer

The Catholic Mission at Yule Island, Pap celebrate its 75th anniversary on July first priest to land there was Bishop H. on June 28, 1885, and he offered Mass 4. In the foreground above, holding one 130 descendants, is 85-year-old "Granny Natera, who still remembers the Bishop'* as a small girl. "Granny" is one of Papuans to live to such an age. With some of the members of her family. Tl five generations in the picture.

•J3d at the villagers and fired 1,1 shots. That did it. When came ashore next day the villagers had grabbed him, if his head, dried it and placed a ceremonial shelf.

Australian High Commissioner iia, Mr. W. R. Crocker, men to newsmen during a visit )t Moresby in May that when ;e served on the Trusteeship :.l of UNO he used to hear a i eal of ignorant criticism about •uinea. But at that time there group in the Secretariat led nmunists and fellow travellers [referred to carry out their ii a great revolution on high is and diplomatic immunities, inong their activities “was the : of anti-Colonialist speeches irtain delegates and delega-

Historian, R. A. Derrick, who 7 had to resign as Scout Com er in Fiji because of ill has been appointed Honorary Commissioner by the Com

L. Ninnes, director of Bristol Siddeley Ltd., who made a side trip by TEAL [?]ying-boat from Fiji to Tahiti in May ding discussions with the New Zealand [?]ent on the supply of aircraft engines, that this would be his last chance to Solent flying-boat which his company [?]ned. Mr. Ninnes has been in aviation for 40 years.

Symes, of Sydney, former long-time [?]f the Solomons and New Guinea (left) Max Lovell, manager of Suva's Club [?]r. Symes, in May, was returning from Cook Is., where he had been inspecting [?]p on behalf of his Solomons firm.

ijsalth’s Chief Scout. This is coreciation of the devoted ser- Mr. Derrick has rendered to J Scouting movement. * * * j-aul, New Guinea, artist Ivy V exhibited at an art exhibi nere in May a surrealist paint -I,lied “Main Street in Rabaul, Ten Rabaul businessmen, Dover the condition of Rabaul’s promptly bought it for five 2s with a special intention. Ex td one of them, Mr. J. L. er: “Maybe I’m not an art „ but when I saw this great >of dirty grey paint smeared a piece of canvas to repre jur main street I knew it was ose to the truth to be funny. 11l wrap it up nicely and send Territories Minister Paul [;k with a little card. We hope .1 appreciate the picture better we appreciate the reality.”

;uests of the Colonial Office, iji newspaper men are making f h’s aerial visit to the United i>m in June. The men are Mr. , P. Mishra, editor of the weekly Jai Fiji; Mr. Sam k, editor of the Fijian weekly, iewa ni Pasifika; Esa 1 a i. editor of the Fijian weekly, una, Mr. Stan Whippy, re of the Fiji Times daily; and ob Wright, photographer of ji Government’s Public Re- Office.

[?]d-operated machines and eight operators out 450 bricks a day at Goroka in the Highlands of New Guinea these days. [?]cal Government councils are operating [?]th the idea of erecting their own including schools and general accom- There are two machines now in use there and six more on order.

Photo: Pat Robertson.

Australia’s special representati on the Trusteeship Council, & J. H. Jones, told the council in M that the term most commonly us in the Territory to describe the 3 digenous people was “native”, I this was not intended to be insu ing. He said no steps had be taken to find an official name New Guinea people, but Austra proposed to take steps about giv them a name “when it conside] it practical to obtain a coherent] pression of opinion on the subjei

Elaine Fifield, former pr: ballerina, who established he with the Sadler’s Wells Ballet was considered a possible succ to Dame Margot Fonteyn until gave up dancing about two ; ago, married Papua planter I Farley, in Port Moresby, in They will live in a simple hou Cape Rodney, about 100 miles s( east of Port Moresby, where Farley is described as havin modest copra plantation”. * * * When Mr. “Andy” Nola 1: teaching at a Mangaia school, i] Cooks, he noticed that the r pork, derived from very hardy pigs left by Captain Cook, somewhat tough and totally diff from the white pig meat of Zealand. He fixed that by im ing NZ pigs and breeding thei well as inbreeding them witl “Captain Cookers” to improvi centuries-old strain. Now, thar Mr. Nola and his non-profit € prise which is run as a school munity effort, Mangaia has v sales of New Zealand style pc very much under “mainland” (an average of 1/8 a pound) live pigs are being sold to i farmers, Mr. Nola’s enterprise changed Mangaia Island. * * * There are many plans afo improve Tahiti’s tourist accomr tion in time for the big influ

Mr. and Mrs. Ron Gardner, of Fiji, who been spending seven months leave at ho Southampton, UK, travelled both ways by Dutch Mails vessel "Willem Ruys". Mr. G[?] will return to duty with the Customs D ment, at Lautoka, at end of June. But Gardner will probably spend some time wi mother and sister who are now livi Brisbane, Queensland.

when the new Papeete air jets into operation at the end year. Latest plan is that of 7, Tahiti businessman, Mr.

IBambridge, who proposes to ji cottage type hotel soon on orth coast of the Taiarapu uula, at the south-wes era end hiti. * * * Ley builder K. W. Dean, son [ Rev. E. C. Dean, left Sydney iy June for Niue Island, east inga, where the London nary Society has engaged him set church rebuilding work.

INiue was hit by two severe unes within 12 months, most Lants being left homeless, and jchurches being damaged or red.

[h Labour member Llywelyn .is asked Mr. lain Macleod, iry for the Colonies, in the ins, in May, whether “in view high increase in population iion to the economic develop f the Fiji Islands” would the ment introduce proposals for ring birth control there? : Macleod replied that the Commission had recom that the Fiji Government take certain practical steps ith control, but the Corn ’s report was now being con by the Fiji Government, is responsible for taking any s on its recommendations rrying them out”. * * * Moresby Salvation Army Major W. A. Smith, men in May that the Salvation 7ould import hula hoops to -'lew Guinea “to combat the ig instinct” in native chil ne hoops would be in "reduced tools and villages to replace imes and “pitch penny”. “I jen native tots who could :nt playing cards for sticks ones”, commented Major

in May was Captain Henri J. Helme of cha", who was delivering the vessel mea to Papeete. Tahiti-born Captain as making his first visit home for 11 years.

Photo :J. P. Shortall.