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famous old pioneer of the n days in New Guinea, Mr. :h Rudolph Wahlen, of Ham- Uermany, celebrated his 87th ly early in June. In a note dend in Sydney he says that is at Bramstedt in April, r oing some medical treatment, •he doctors called him a rnienon”. And. for a man of jore years and a bit he really aenomenon—he still takes his ig dive into the swimming ear his home in Bebelallee He 'ears ago, that he intended to be 100, and he now is within of his century.
er a long stint in the South ic, and an even longer stint ibraltar, Mr. A. h. Abraham xpected to return to the Pacific me as Chief of Police in the 3 h Solomons. Mr. Abraham has Commissioner of P° llce 1f iltar since 1953, but from 1944 )50 he was in Fiji. He later ;ferred to British Honduras.
a real islands night in Vila, New [?]s when the Australian destroyers, [?] nand "Anzac" called in on a cruise.
Vila Harbour, Commander A. W. Savage [?]k") and Lieut.-Commander B. D. Gordon [?]Anzac") get into the swing of things.
Photo: Reece Discombe.
"Tanks for a nice time," says Commander Savage (see top photo), as he presents plaques from the two Australian ships to Bill Reid, president of the Vila Ex- Servicemen's Association.
Photo: Reece Discombe.
A spare time occupation of U Fanaafi Maiai, of Western Sam is the translation of English classl including R. L. Stevenson’s Treasi Island, into the Samoan langua This fact was mentioned in in June when it was officially a nounced that Miss Maiai, who 1958 became the first West Samo woman University graduate, 1 been appointed Lecturer in Edii{ tion at Victoria University 0 lege, Wellington now the fi Samoan to become a Univers lecturer.
Dr. Jan van Baal, the form governor of Netherlands New Guin( visited San Francisco in early Ju en route to The Hague after teaci ing anthropology to University] Oregon graduate students for £ weeks. He went to Oregon as a gu« member of the faculty. These da Dr. van Baal is on the staff of t] Netherlands Royal Insthute : Tropical Affairs and lectures young men and women prepari] for careers in Dutch New Guinea * * * Auckland has an important futu as a centre for South Pacific r search, said Mr. Jack Golson, : Auckland, in June, after he had n signed as senior lecturer in pn history at Auckland University i he can take up a Fellowship : archaeology at the Australia National University, Canberra ne: year. “Auckland should be able exploit the South West Pacific fiel and there are moves here alrea( for a School of South West Pacif Studies,” he said. “This could tal in NZ’s islands territories, pli territories like Tonga, and Same as well as parts of Melanesia sue as Fiji and New Caledonia for whic no one has a prime responsibilil in the study field.” * % ♦ Young Frenchman Guy Clabau( who is making a lone-handed voyag around the world in a small yact
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Bernacchi, photographed Suva aboard the GEIC Government vessel "N[?] koria". They recently made a visit to Austral Mr. Bernacchi is Resident Commissioner of Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
finding it pretty strenuous, led up at Mare Island, in the r group, one Sunday morning June in what was described ‘very feeble physical condi and shortly afterwards he )wn to hospital in Noumea, d left Bora Bora in April ide a short call at Rarotonga, Cooks. ♦ * * lure of television was strong rac L ive Karana, 18, of Kavieng, •eland, who had her heart set pearing in a TV film being by an Australian company in I in June. The company lined 0 fly her to Rabaul. But then igrv brothers stepped in and 1 her away, fearing that a would never come back from right lights and her family lose her bride money. After aing in vain that Karana’s appearance would earn her cash than her bride price, the ,ny got itself another star.
shop George Bernarding, SVD, ntlv consecrated in Pittsburgh, isylvania, as Vicar Apostolic to Hagen, New Guinea, is, like most he American missionary priests -NG, an ardent baseball fan. In it was he who introduced the L ’e to Lae while he was building Mary’s Church there ten or 12 *s ago. He is a “Before” and one of those evacuated from a Bena when the Japs cut on yone’s retreat after they occupied NG coast in 1942.
[?]tinguished figure at Noumea' s June 18 ony at the de Gaulle memorial, which [?]morates New Caledonia's decision in to adhere to de Gaulle and Free France, Henri Sautot, French Pacific's war-time leader.
Coinciding with the 75th am versary of the establishment of t Seventh-Day Adventist church the South Pacific, is the discove of the grave of Captain j ■ Marsh, master of the Pitcairn'fu
Seventh-Day Adventist schooner!
sail into the South Pacific area Ca tain Marsh died in 1892 and 1 grave is in the Remuera, Aucklar cemetery. Adventist Public Relatio Director in the South Pacific j, Ernie Steed, announced in Ju that a monument will now be bu over the grave to all pione workers in the area.
The US Navy Commander-h Chief, Admiral Arleigh Burke, w quoted as saying at The Hague ] June that the US was “interested! having bases all over the world, eventually a base in Hollands This caused a mild international ii cident, whh Indonesia in the va until the US State Department sh the Admiral down with the explaru tion that he hadn’t said that at a or, anyway, hadn’t meant what 1 was supposed to have said. * * * There seemed to be need for tt appointment of a new Administrate of P-NG who “would approach h responsibilities without thinking i terms of keeping the whites on top said The Canberra Times in a editorial on July 5. Some of tt utterances of the present Admir istrator, Brigadier D. M. Clelam represented “crass stupidity”. Or of the considerations in the appoint ment of administrators of all terri tories was to avoid the “politics favouritism which has entered int too many of these appointments i the last three decades”. In repb Port Moresby’s South Pacific Pos described the Times’ editorial a “shabby”, “despicable” and part c a smear campaign aimed at remov ing Brigadier Cleland from office.
Two senior staff members of TEAL are due leave the company at the end of July—ch engineer George Bolt (left) and assistant gene manager John Veale. Mr. Bolt is retiring; I Veale will take up a position as gene manager of a new business shortly to be est lished in Auckland.
that Norfolk Island has got i elected Council (it started ;) local resident H. S. New s publicly suggested that what : wants is a “kind of watch ilance group” to see that those keep their promises, or else he reason why. “Everyone is > he said “how on the mam-
Jiticians don’t keep promises/’
is was immoral and brought atic government into disre [t could happen in Norfolk, [r Newbery, adding, “It’s no ce a year just electing a per id letting him run wild.”
lightning trip” is how aNether : official information bulletin ibed the visit to Netherlands Guinea in July of three Aus m politicians, headed by Mr.
Lucock, vice-chairman of the amentary Foreign Affairs Com ;e. It certainly was: They ed in Hollandia by air from > on July 6, met top officials local people at the Governors ence in the evening, saw india in the morning and re ed to P-NG by air an hour or later. The three men wre ;ly a small proportion of a big i of Australian politicians from iarties. who were swarming over ralia’s tropical northern islands une and July, as Canberra was tie depths of winter. * * * miara, BSIP, people are friendly easy-going, but good neighbour 's became a bit strained recently n a few of them insisted on play their radios too loudly. The dif- Ity was to know who the culprits
[?] t the gift equipment given to the Ducos
[?] aledonia) Hansenide sanatorium in recent
perhaps the most useful (in objects ot ative size, anyway) is this magnificent [?] ope, here being used by one of the staff The microscope is rendering immense [?] ce, according to the Sister-in-Charge.
Photo: Fred Dunn.
were, and the telephone system 1 came jammed with irate hou holders accusing each other Th somebody discovered that the mu was coming not from local rad but from a public address systi on a Japanese ship anchored ■ Point Cruz.
Federal Secretary of the Australii Printing Industries Employees’ Uni( Mr. C. Colborne, turned up in Pc Moresby in July hot on the hei of Australian newspaper repo] that he was going there to establi unions among the natives and g them a pay increase. But to t Territory’s Press he said, “The i ports that I am here to organ] native unions are completely wror I am on a fact-finding mission”.
Married in the Roman Catholic Church, P [?] Moresby, recently. Miss P. Partridge and [?] D. Baldwin. Mr. Baldwin is a member of well known Territory family.
Photo: Papuan Prin[?]
Papua-New Guinea needed a good public re[?] tions set-up in Australia to see that it a fair go, said old Territorian and pre- [?] owner-editor of the "Papuan Courier", Mr. E.
James, in Port Moresby in early July. M [?] recent Press publicity in Australia was adve[?] to administration and non-native residents, [?] some of it showed lack of facts and insuffici[?] knowledge of Territory affairs, he said. A pul relations bureau could help.
lesian subject Mrs Tamhatu, f a cargo clerk aboard the ship Karossa, arrived in lia in June as a stowaway, he had been refused an entry into NNG. She had boarded p at Singapore, and explained he didn’t want to go back onesia because her husband
sected of sympathising with
in the South Moluccas. Un ie Dutch agree to give Mrs. itu an entry permit, she is d to spend her days aboard irossa between Singapore and because Singapore won t allow hore, either.
e last surviving relic of the bad alackbirding days of the Aus m sugar-cane fields is Jack iree now pushing 90 —he thinks. is a “member” of the Hassal ly, has been for 35 years, and at present living on the farm [r. J. C. Hassal about 90 miles h of Brisbane. He is a Malaita and wasn’t blackbirded; he ally stowed away on a recruit cutter anchored off his home ge and was so small at the
. prospective employers turned
their noses. First he became a :’s offsider, then he worked on * farms around Geralton and daberg, Q’ld. He says the Aus- Lans treated them worse than dogs and paid them 2/6 a week es in those days—but Jack still ’erred it to the Solomons and in the Australian Government ed blackbirding and repatriated the Solomon Islanders from jensland canefields, he decided to lain—a step which he has never retted.
[?]ecent visit to Sydney from Fiji, by PAA, enaia Ganilau, and his wife Adi Laisa. enaia was awarded an OBE in the recent [?] Birthday Honours list. He is Economic
[?]ment Officer and Roko Tui Cakaudrove.
A black toe protruding fron stack of timber in the Lakemba Sydney in June led Customs offk to three young Fijian stowawj The three, who gave their names Netiri, 19; Sailosi, 21; and Suru all waterfront workers, had b hiding in a three-foot gap betwi the timber stack and the de head, living on water, biscuits s dry bread They explained that tl just wanted to see Sydney”. 1
Mr. R. L. Moyle, who has be chief accountant for Millers Limit in Suva, Fiji, for the past two yea will return to Suva in Septemb at the conclusion of leave and v join the staff of Fiji Times a: Herald Ltd. as accountant and bu ness manager. Mr. Moyle car originally from Brisbane, and b had considerable experience of t printing industry.
The lack of either a tiled bathroom or water service doesn't appear to detract ro the enjoyment of a bath for this young fell a Papuan from Port Moresby's Hanuab village. Photo: N. V. S
At the recent Charter Night of the Goroka (Ne[?] Guinea) Rotary Club—club secretary Mr.
Bolton and Mrs. Bolton. There are other phot of New Guinea rotary on page 135.
Photo: R. Schumake
-Day Adventist missionary Day Adventist missionary ing in retirement in Mel- Vic., is one of those who self-government for New i a natives yet awhile. r ” he told a Melbourne reporter recently, when the out NG was at its height, re s f ill eating each other up He went on to describe how, e was visiting a village out inantu about 18 months ago, was cooking on the fire e talked to the village men. >orter was so impressed that Hare got quite a piece of y for his old mission. Pastor ascribed this particular tribe some years ago; they are es who don’t always bury >ad—they eat them.
Loke, of Singapore, who has i Suva for the past two years
a representative of Cathay
Ltd. (new owners of the Pacific Hotel) recently pur the residence of the late E. Goodsir on Tamavua Hill, and plans to make that her nent home. Her son, who is ?ad of the Cathay group of nies in Singapore, probably risit Fiji in September or *r. * * * iouble drowning tragedy in New Hebrides, in la"e June ;d the townspeople, who are a f -knit community. Stephen dw 6, and Brian Kay, 4, dis red while playing at the s edge at Blacksands Beach, rch later recovered the body phen, but despite a search by of Vila for a week no trace found of Brian. Mr. dw and Mr. Kay are with , philp. Mr. D. Kay was re y manager when the hurricane : Vila in December, and he and ife, Joan, lost everything. PIM □ruary publi hed a photograph s. Kay in the wreckage of their
[?]is now doing some substantial busi ness the Indian population of Fiji. Photo here are Mr. A. F. Pinto, Air India's [?] manager, with Mr. and Mrs. Alfred at a cocktail party in Suva in June.