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*o succeed Mr. K. D. Bhasin as nmissioner for the Government India in Fiji, the Government hdia has announced the appoint it of Shri J. K. Ganju, at sent Deputy-Secretary in the listry of External Affairs. [r. Ganju was born on April 24, [, and educated at Lucknow versity. He was appointed to Indian Foreign Service in 1948 has served successively as First retary, Rangoon Embassy, 1-50; Chief Controller of Im ;s, 1950; First Secretary, Teheran Dassy, 1950-53; First Secretary ,rge d’Affaires, Mexico City Jassy, 1954-58. ]r. Bhasin returns to Delhi in uary. His next appointment has yet been named. It is not yet wn when Mr. Ganju will arrive riji.
r Percy and Lady McNiece, of ;apore, arrived in Suva in Oc r, on a three months’ visit. Sir ;y is one of the heads of Cathay sis, Limited, which owns the lay in Singapore, the Grand ific in Suva, and the new South fic Hotel, now approaching corn ion in Lautoka, Fiji. Lady fiece is a daughter of Mrs. Loke, has superintended the renova of the Grand Pacific Hotel since lay purchased it from the Union Co. Ltd. in 1959.
[?]ppointment of Mr. David Clive Trench to [?]ost of High Commissioner for the Western [?]c in succession to Sir John Gutch is a [?]ar one in the Western Pacific, even though [?]uld be difficult for anyone to have to [?] immediately in the footsteps of Sir John, [?]has been a great success. Mr. Trench, at [?]t Deputy Colonial Secretary in Hongkong, [?]take up his new post at Honiara in the year. He will be responsible for British [?]sts in the New Hebrides, BSIP and GEIC.
Sir Percy said in Suva that muc more investment in hotels and a( commodation was needed in Fiji i develop the tourist industry. Fi he said, was “quite underdevelope in this way at the moment”. I. said Cathay hotels intended furth investment in the future but i definite plans had been made. * * * Mr. Norman Cowan and Mr.
Murray recently paid a visit Western Samoa to gather materi for a musical opera to be bast on the life of Robert Loi Stevenson in Samoa. The pr duction is being sponsored by tl Los Angeles Civic Light Opera A sociation, and is to be staged abo September next year in Los Angeli San Francisco, and possibly Ne York. Mr. Cowan, the director, writing the libretto and Mr. Murr is the composer.
“The Fair Dinkum Posada” the name chosen for a hotel Australians which Yugoslav be Mick Stravs hopes to establish Spain soon. Mr. Stravs now Australian citizen, left Rabaul, 1* in September for Europe af several years working in Rab as a chemist. He said he wan to start the hotel in Spain beca' many Australians visited there s Australians “did not want too mu ceremony in an hotel”. * * * The people of Sugu villa Wanderer Bay, Guadalcanal, v receive a gift as a result of; recent visit by an expatris Wanderer Bay is where Benj an Boyd was killed in 1861, and wb Boyd’s great-nephew Viscov Boyd, the former Secretary of St; for the Colonies, visited tli earlier this year he heard t story of Benjamin Boyd’s des from an old man of the vills
Applauding the Australian acrobats at monster carnival that was part of New C[?] donia's birthday celebrations are, from I[?] the Mayor of Noumea, Mr. Laroque; Governor of New Caledonia, Mr. Pechoux; the president of the committee which organ[?] the celebrations, Mr. Numa Daly.
Photo; Fred Du[?]
rho had heard it from his ther).
Now Viscount Boyd has presented sum of money to commemorate s visit and it will be spent on stalling a piped water supply to e village. * * * Controversial South Australian hour member of Federal Parlia 3nt, Mr. Clyde Cameron, who ide a controversial visit to P-NG few months ago, had three writs ■ defamation, each for £lO,OOO, ued against him in the Papua w Guinea Supreme Court in tober. The writs gave no details, baul solicitor Dudley Jones ged them on behalf of Mr. T. rrett, of Varzin Plantation, and baul businessmen John Dowling 1 Arthur Brown. Mr. Cameron, o visited Rabaul during his tour, > 45 days to answer them.
he Most Reverend Leo L. Lemay, STD, lately Provincial of the •ist Fathers in the South Pacific nds area, was consecrated a lop in Sydney in September, now takes up the post of Vicar stolic of the North Solomons in session to Bishop Wade, who re i to America because of ill Ith last year. * * * >aded with botanical specimens 5 of exposed movie film, tape irdmgs and bulging note books, seven-man Kyoto University lorers’ Club research team ch has been working in Tonga e early July was homeward nd in October. Said the expedi
Japanese wife of an engineer employed by Nickel Company of Noumea was among pretty women who took part in the con [?]d'elegance which was part of New Gale [?]s annual birthday celebrations this year.
She makes a pretty picture.
Photo: Fred Dunn.
i’s senior member, Professor Y. buuchi: “The expedition was well 'th while.” Fishing methods and ial structure of fishing villages Tonga, agricultural engineering, any, archaeology and sociological jects interested the expedition ch was financed by selling popu articles to newspapers, and by ing TV films and recordings. The versity also received public ations.
ssidents of Papua-New Guinea 3 for a long time been interested the possibilities of having a in the Commonwealth Parlia it—as the Northern Territory In October a Liberal member :he House, Mr. Swartz, asked Minister for Territories, Mr. luck, whether he would con i' such a seat for an elected ve member. The Minister led that no consideration was g given at present to allowing G to be represented.
[?]more P-NG families were linked when John married Adele Wood at St. Mary's Catholic [?]h, Lae, in September. The bride is the [?]er daughter of Mrs. Stella Wood of Lae, [?]he late Mr. Davis Wood of Wau and Lae. [?]Kelly brothers are hard-working farmers [?]e Markham Valley. Brother Laurence, who best man, married a local girl last year.
[?]ent wedding of interest in Suva was the [?]ge of Emelie Morris, of Rotuma, to [?]nt L. Senior, RNZAF. The Rev. Father [?] officiated at the ceremony at Sacred [?]Cathedral, and the reception held at [?]F base, Laucala Bay, was attended by 200 guests. Here are the bride and [?]room with bridesmaid Agnes Morris, sister of the bride.
Photo: Stinsons.
“I am leading a long processioi of seconded officers who have lef before their work is finalised. M' resignation is due to persona friction and a feeling that then was no real appreciation of th need to develop the informatioi service of Western Samoa.”
The quote belongs to Mr. Roderi McDiarmid, appointed earlier thi year as Director of Public Relation for Western Samoa, as printed o: the front page of the Sama Bulletin in September. M: McDiarmid, who among othe things, launched the Governmer paper “Savali” and was editing i had just handed in his resignatioi It had been accepted. * * * In Fiji, the Fiji Broadcasts Commission was meanwhile at pointing its first radio news editx —an Australian journalist, M Rhys Campbell.
“Papua-New Guinea’s econom development is just as urgent as i political development,” said tl president of the New Guinea Higi land Farmers and Settlers’ A sociation, Mr. lan Downs, in Sydm in October. Mr. Downs had r turned from a world trip of neau three months in time to hear t; news of P-NG’s political develot ment (see p. 17). But while aw' he and fellow planter. Mr. J: Leahy had taken a close look development in East Afr i c Jamaica, Venezuela, Columbc Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemai Mexico and Hawaii. They al looked at coffee selling techniqu in Rome, Hamburg and London.
“Even in the most remote ai, backward areas we found suj things as power, water and go< roads everywhere,” said Mr. Down
Leading Apia, Western Samoa, businessman a[?] former managing director of E. A. Coxon a[?] Co., Ltd., and director of Samoa Newspape[?] Ltd., Mr. Kurt von Reiche, left with his fam[?] on the "Tofua" in September for New Zeala[?] They are to settle on a large farm at Wai[?] North Auckland, New Zealand. Left to right Mrs. Ainsley von Reiche, Ainsley, Jr., Sand[?] Barry, Mr. Kurt von Reiche, and Rayma. Otl[?] children, Ingrid, Michael and Luana are alre[? in New Zealand.
Photo: Samoa[?]
made us realise how under feloped New Guinea is. Other mtries are making better use of ir natural resources. We can more. In Jamaica, for instance, y encourage new secondary in try by granting it seven years z of taxation.” Mrs. Downs and Leahy’s daughter, Jon, also ie the tour, which was a private
C. R. Rivers, formerly Post jr of Apia, West Samoa, in ipia High Court in September convicted of having smuggled ble goods by mail and was a total of £l5O. The case ;ted considerable attention, acting post master of Pago American Samoa, was a wit for the prosecution. Judge arsack said Rivers had used )sition to default the country’s Lie, which had been his duty to /I. * * * foumea newspaper reported in er that Senator H. Lafleur, Caledonian mining magnate, probably acquire the big raising and meat canning Wof Societe Ouaco. This stabhshed company, originally d with Australian capital in dawn of New Caledonian
Mary Leo, a member of the Missionary of the Society of Mary, visited Sydney [?]ober after doing post graduate work in and obstetrics in the USA. Sister Mary [?]as returning to New Guinea where, on [?]ville for many years, she has been in of an infant and maternity and training centre. She is a qualified surgeon.
ttlement, has big grazing areas i the north-west coast of New iledonia and possesses a modern nning plant. Before the last war laco processed a great deal of ;at for the French army. ♦ * * Some of the Fijian crew of the ‘igher Delfino won themselves ne publicity in Sydney in October ten they got involved in a real I time brawl with British sea m at Circular Quay. Police re sided Kaliova Kadanavatu, 22, later in the month, on a charge having caused actual bodily harm one seaman, at whom, police 3ged, he threw a partly filled •bage tin, breaking his nose, ashing his teeth, and causing ernal injuries.
iji’s “Miss Hibiscus 1960” was a antly happy Emma Whitcombe, employed as a secretary with ns Philp (SS). The mayor of a, Mr. C. A. Stinson, announced win on October 15; with Tuela idt in second place, and Pamela ch third. The pretty Miss .tcombe receives a flight to San acisco as her prize. * * * New Guinea native named ir Hapo was given a month’s in Port Moresby on October 14 having flourished a knife at a ve meeting for Australia’s ing Governor-General, Lord rossil (who was making his first to the Territory). Hapo was of 6,000 natives at the Sir ert Murray Memorial Park a he was seen by a police in tor with a knife raised high e his head. Hapo said he had . arguing with somebody else his wife. * * ♦ reli Naborisi, general secretary ;he Fiji Stevedores Union, is ding three months in the ed Kingdom on a work-study se organised by the Trades »n Congress. The visit is iced by the British Council, h trained as a schoolteacher in and taught for several years re joining the Stevedores Union »01.
[?]d from Apia, Western Samoa, for New [?]nd aboard the "Tofua" to settle on a farm [?]aipu are Mr. A. (Lucky) Netzler and his [?]y, Jimmy (being carried) Carl, Mrs. Netzler Noeline. Photo: Samoana.