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Because the 15th session of the lited Nations General Assembly ening on September 20 in New >rk could produce some con >versial debates the Trustee bjects on the agenda include New tinea and Nauru—a top member the Commonwealth Government, ■ Garfield Barwick, Attorney neral, is leading this year’s dele tion. One of the Advisers to the legation is Mr. G. W. Toogood. ;cutive officer of the Department the Administrator, Port Moresby, e session will last for three nths.
ter completing his three years’ i in Samoa, Mr. C. H. (“Cam”) ler, Director of Broadcasting, med to NZ early in September, er his guidance, 2AP’s pro times developed in a realistic efficient way, particularly with °an language broadcasts. Just : from a refresher training se in NZ, Mr. Frank Brunt, a [ member of 2AP’s staff, is now ng Director of Broadcasting in tern Samoa. * * * • get the current picture, from uhtary point of view, Colonel Murray, US Military Attache in
[?]island's "Gold Coast" is attempting to out [?]the sunny South Pacific Islands as a [?]t attraction. They have now began send [?] heir representatives abroad to show the [?]-and here's one. She's 18-year-old dental [?]J ean Clark, crowned "Princess of Para city",as she arrived in Auckland by TEAL a on the first stage of a New Zealand tour as a "goodwill emissary".
Canberra, flew up to New Guine on an inspection tour during th first week in September. He late went on to Netherlands New Guine to carry out a similar survey. * * * In Melbourne at the end ( August, awaiting a ship to can him home to Nauru, was Re Itubra Amram, first ordaine minister of Nauru Protestai Church. Mr. Amram, who traine for six years at Camden Theologic College, NSW, has just complete a further 12 months of study at tl Union Theological Seminary, Ne York.
Suva legal fraternity, through IV R L. Munro, president of the F Law Society, gave a special welcoi to Mr. Moti Tikaram, first Fi Indian appointed as magistral when he took his place on t Bench at Suva Magistrate’s con on September 1.
Bankers, so their overdn burdened clients say, are seldf friendly people, but in Fiji <► exception was Mr. W. J. (“Jinr Lahore, who was first manager the ANZ Bank Ltd. in Suva. . amiable personality and liw interest in people and places wll he sojourned in Fiji won hinr
Off to Europe on a long holiday with his w[?] and family in August was the popular Sen[?] Customs Officer and Sub-cashier at Santo,N[?] Hebrides, Mr. Jack Holder. Mr. Holder, [?] Australian, has been in the New Hebrides si[?] 1937, the last six years of them in Santo.[?] Santo Customs brings in revenue of £25,[?] a year.
Married at St. Luke's Church, Suva, recent[?] Mr. and Mrs. Desmond Campbell. Mr. Camp[?] is with the CSR, and his bride was form[?] Miss Joy Knapper, tutor sister at the Cem[?] Medical School, Suva.
Photo: C. L. Chif
lost of friends. He was transferred i couple of years ago to the nanagership of the main ANZ Sydney branch. Last month, the lables from Suva were running hot
with congratulatory messages when
te was made the bank’s chief nanager for NSW. * * * Mr. Robert Charles Symes, a well jiown resident of the British lolomon Islands and of New Juinea, and Mrs. Judy Wales, irmerly of New Guinea and widow f the late Mr. Hector Wales, who r as well known in that Territory efore World War 11, in August nnounced their engagement. Mrs.
Tales has been a resident of Aus •alia for some time. It is expected lat the marriage will take place ext January.
A lone traveller who was seen in ; w Zealand, Fiji and Samoa in :ent months was Mr. Berson seph, a Marshall Islander, who is engaged in the study of educa •nal broadcasting on a six months’ lowship awarded by UNESCO.
Mr. Joseph has been identified th Station WSZO in the Marshalls ■ 3! years; in addition, he has en teaching mathematics and ence at the Intermediate School. ■ is a full-blooded Micronesian, Wotho Atoll. * * » Just back in Noumea after an sence of two years is Rev. Father cob, a New Caledonian native est who spent the last two years Rome (where he gained a sological degree) and in a parish Chartres, France. Father Jacob s ordained a priest five years ago ;er completing studies at the mmaire at Paita, 20 miles from umea. He served some time at umea’s Cathedral, “it has been the Church to prove the rth of the New Caledonian
[?]aded for Noumea, but visiting Port Moresby August from Manila, where he was First [?]retary with the Australian Embassy, was [?] Keith Douglas-Scott. In October Mr [?]glas-Scott will take over the post of Aus [?]lian Consul in Noumea from Mr. Rodney [?]dgson, who will be returning to Canberra.
native” (comments a Noumean resi dent). “It is only the Churc which has had the courage to tak a full-blooded native and train hir for a high post. Father Jacob ha pointed the way—there is no reaso why the future should not see nativ lawyers, doctors and scholar There is actually an elite passir through Noumea’s La Perom college which should do honor 1 the New Caledonian race”. * * * A Fijian and an Indian repr< sented the Colony of Fiji at tl Bth Conference of the World Ai sembly of Youth held at Acer Ghana, in mid-August. They we: Ratu Jone Vuiyasawa, of the Fijis Affairs Board staff and president i the Viti Club, and Mr. Shankar Li of the Education Department schools broadcasts unit. Both a members of the Fiji Council < Social Services, and Mr. Lai lat went on to UK to take a pos graduate course in social welfare Swansea University,
New Guinea, just recovering frc a rash of VIP visitors in July a August, is about to steel itself 1 another invasion. The president the Australian Council of Trg Unions, Mr. A. E. Monk, and t ACTU junior vice-president, Mr.
Evans, will fly to New Guinea October. They are members of group reported to be “studying t economic and social position white and coloured people Papua-New Guinea”. Others in t party will be representatives employers and the Federal Govei ment. It will be Mr. Monk’s 4( trip overseas, and he will contin on to Geneva to attend an Int: national Labour Organisation me ing. * * * Miss Fanaafi Ma’ia’i, first Samo woman university graduate, w recently was appointed lecturer education at Victoria Universe
In the Solomons in August were Dr. T. J.
Jamieson (left) and Mr. G. F. Witchell.
Jamieson, Medical Superintendent at Vil[?] Raton Memorial Hospital, was on tour to st[?] hospital construction and organisation in BSIP and P-NG. Mr. Witchell, travelling [?] missioner for the international headquarters the Boy Scouts' Association, is on a five mont[?] tour of the South Pacific, conducting train[?] programmes and checking on Scouting devel ments.
Wellington, NZ, has written a ihildren’s book. Stories of Old lo,moa. It contains the old legends I Western Samoa in attractive orm and has been well received in Few Zealand. ♦ * * Among 23 scientists who paid a uick visit to Papua-New Guinea at le end of August, after an inter ational symposium on chemistry eld in Australia, was a leading ritish professor, Sir Alexander odd. He told reporters that, in his union, meat was more important lan education for the Territory’s itives— they appeared to lack an lequate meat supply in their diet, lucation is very necessary, he freed, but the natives cannot ach their full potential unless ey are properly fed. He urged at the job of developing P-NG ould be tackled by the British unmonwealth rather than by istralia alone, with her limited oney resources.
Ir. and Mrs. Jacques Villeminot sed through Sydney on their / to New Guinea in August to ry out four months’ anthro- Dgical work on behalf of the nch Government. A lecturer at Musee de Paris, Mr. Villeminot, > in Australia in 1955 doing re rch work among Central Aus lian tribes and he has written ee books about the aborigines I Australia generally. * * * Miss Marjorie Stewart, South Pacific Commission’s
[?]nation of a new Boy Scoot Troop at [?]angi, Rarotonga, in August has added in st to Scouting in the Cooks. Rarotonga [?]ously had only one Scout troop but now we are two a keen sense of competition is [?]cted to develop. Here is the investment [?]mony of the new All Saints Troop. Scooter [?]aiau receives his scarf from Scoutmaster [?]n Sullivan, while District Scout Commis sioner J. D. Campbell stands by.
Photo: R. D. Moore.
Women’s Interests Officer who has been in Fiji for the past six months; went on to Tonga in August. Hei work among Fijian women was ar outstanding success—Women’s Clubs have mushroomed all over the Colony, with their attendant pro grammes of hygiene, sewing, cook ing and gardening. From Tonga Miss Stewart will move on to th( US Trust Territory of Micronesia. * * * From the little town of Tugun in South Queensland, three forme] residents send kindly greetings t* some of the old generation o; people in Fiji. They are Mr Christopher Wager, now aged 81 who for long years was a promin ent police official in Fiji; Mi Arthur Freeman, who now is 8‘ years of age but who still defie the withering hand of time an* cherishes many memories of ols friends in Fiji; and Mr. Freeman’ daughter, Mrs. Jane Robertsor who also made many friends in Fij:
Mr. Ron Webb, the South Pacif Commission’s administrative office recently spent a week in Pago Pag inspecting and making plans f« the next South Pacific Conferenc It will be held there in July 196 and Governor Coleman hopes it w; coincide with the completion « the new Tafuna international aij port. The last South Pacific Con ference was in Rabaul in 1959. * * * Commander A. W. Savage, we known in the Pacific through h command of HMAS Tobruk (whit recently made a South Pacific to* together with HMAS Anzac) September was appointed Au tralian Military Adviser’s repn sentative at the SEATO militai planning office, Bangkok. T h appointment will be for two yea from next January, with the actij rank of Captain. He succeeds Gro< Captain G. H. Steege, also W' known in the Islands. * * * Mr. John Wesley Coulter, Pn fessor of Geography at the Ue versity of Cincinatti, well kno'' writer on Pacific subjects—he wro Fiji, Little India of the Pacif in 1942—was in Fiji for a week August after spending three montt in French South Pacific territon studying human geography uno an Association of American Ge graphers’ research grant.
Married at Arorangi, Rarotonga, in August, the London Missionary Society Church —Jimir Wichman to Salome Joannides.
Photo: R. D. Mooi
ZJonrad Dube, French Canadian ppled cyclist who has been mak \ an extensive tour of the South cific over the past year or so, was en a happy send-off from Papeete July when he departed with his ich decorated bicycle aboard a ssageries Maritimes liner for aama and Brazil. Dube made ny friends during his stay in hiti and he was bedecked with vers on his departure.
the High Court of American oa, bank employee Ben Tau of ei. was sentenced to 16 months on a charge of having em led $3OO from Bank of American oa funds.
graphed in Vila in August—well-known Hebrides businessman Oscar Newman, who had large plantation interests there. He how sold his interests and in September [?]ts to leave the New Hebrides “more or permanently" and live in his house near Roseville, Sydney.
O. Simpson a WHO official in Suva he is lecturer at the Central Medical headed a band of enthusiasts who sed a Suva street appeal in August for to send a Fijian Olympic party to Rome.
Here he is, on the job.
Photo: C. L. Cheng.
The Qantas house flag was pullec down at Lae, New Guinea, on Sep tember 1 and TAA’s run up, t« show that a new era in P-NG in ternal air services had begun Qantas officially left New Guinea or that date. TAA general manager Mr. John Hyland, and Mr. Cedrii Oliver. Qantas Islands manager both had nice things to say abou each other’s companies that da: at a hail and farewell luncheon Mr. Hyland added that TAA, witß its New Guinea routes, was nov the biggest domestic airline in th Commonwealth and one of tin world’s biggest.
Former French Finance Ministi Antoine Pinay passed thrmig Noumea with his son and a priva secretary so quickly that he wj gone before most Frenchmen kne he had ever been in New Caledomi Mr Pinay said he was merely mal ing a world holiday tour —and 11 headed for Sydney. * * * It is perhaps fortunate that rw everyone in the world has conscience like Mr. Clive Camera MHR, who recently visited Ne Guinea and now is an expert on tl subject.
What is troubling Mr. Gamer* and a group of natives in tl; Sangara area of Papua, is that 1917 the native owners sold 28,41 acres of land to the Commonweal!
Government for trade goods to tk
Bishop George Bernarding, SVD, newly cons crated Divine Word Missionary Bishop for t[?] Mount Hagen vicariate of New Guinea. T[?] picture was taken at Pittsburgh Cathedral d[?] ing his consecration by Bishop John Wrig[?] Bishop of Pittsburgh. The new Bishop, on[?] episcopal coat-of-arms, has a coconut pa[?] perched atop Mt. Hagen. Coconuts don't gr[?] at Hagen but the palm symbolises the tv[?] coastal vicariates of Wewak and Alexisha[?] from which the Mount Hagen vicariate w[?] formed.
alue of £2BB/11/6. Both Mr. ameron and the present genera on of natives (whose forebears sold ) think it was a lousy deal and ant a judicial inquiry into it.
In Parliament in Canberra in ,te August, the Minister for Terri fies explained to Mr. Cameron lat the £2BB worth of trade goods •including beads, tobacco, rice, ces, etc. —were given as payment s was customary” then and that was apparently acceptable to the eputed owners of the land at that ne and for many years after irds”. However, in 1951, the inister said, a younger generation ade representations and had re wed them since. He didn’t see at there was any case for ap inting a Judge to hold an inquiry.
society wedding with all the immgs took place at All Saints irch, Woollahra, Sydney, in ust, when Julienne, daughter of G Assistant Director of Lands, L. Anthony and Mrs. Anthony, Tied Captain Adrian Clunies 3, son of the late Sir lan Clunies s and of Lady Clunies-Ross. y met in Port Moresby, where oaptain was with the Pacific rids Regiment. Julienne was born labaul. A month before, another a S" bor P gir1 ’ Janet Normoyle, =hter of the P-NG Police Com moner, was married to Mr lan ertson. in Port Moresby, by the lop ?. f J* ew Gui nea, Bishop ►ng who had confirmed her Mr weP known as first
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[?] ceremony at the top of New Guinea's [?]m Pass in August, the widow of Patrol [?]e r . Rupert Haviland (top) was present at the [?]iling of a memorial plaque in his honour, [?]as erected by his friends. Rupert Haviland [?]largely responsible for the building of the [?]lands road over the Kasam Pass. He died [?]pectedly in October, 1958, leaving a widow and two children.