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[ small countries like the West es and Fiji can send teams to Empire Games, why can’t Papua New Guinea?” asked Mrs. D. M. ind, wife of the P-NG Admin tor, in October. She was sup :ng a move by P-NG sporting ials who want to sponsor P-NG >tes to attend the 1962 Empire ies in Perth. The officials have 1 Games organisers for per lon to do this, and if the answer i the negative they intend to are a case to go to the Minister Territories, Mr. Hasluck. The 'als no doubt were thinking of refusal of the Olympic com se to allow a Port Moresby team ay pigeon shooters to compete ie Melbourne Olympics “because j is not a country”.
reral visiting South Pacific )ps had comments to make ustralia in November. Senior tant Bishop of New Guinea, )p David Hand, said on a tele i interview that some members nited Nations visiting missions Few Guinea “talked through in their heads”. Some of the ons made very superficial visits NG. hop George Ambo, a Papuan in October, was consecrated as ssistant Bishop of New Guinea, in his debut sermon in Bris that many more Australians d make sacrifices to go to the Guinea mission fields. (Earlier, ishop Ambo’s consecration ser the Primate of Australia, bishop Gough, had said the ch of England had again shown xovernment a lead in preparing
[?]g at the Buin Agricultural Show, [?]ville, are Bougainville District Corn [?]er Mr. Alan Gow, and Mr. & Mrs. W. [?]. Mr. Wright (centre) is District Com [?]er of the Western Solomons, BSIP, and [?] his wife visited the Australian Territory Western District headquarters at Gizo.
Photo: Gordon Bladen
ive people for self-government choosing a Papuan for a bishop.) he Catholic Bishop of Fiji, lop Foley, said in Sydney that sion work in Fiji was a “difficult because only 28 mission ions served 30,000 Catholics •oughout the Colony. One sionary had to cover 80 square is in some places, he said. * * ♦ be Very Rev. B. Van de Walle. of the British Solomons, has i appointed Provincial of the ist Fathers in the South Pacific nds area in succession to the 7 Rev. Leo Lemay, SM, who was ntly appointed Bishop in the them Solomons. As Provincial, ler Van de Walle will travel fly throughout the area.
udie, middleweight champion ;w Caledonia and holder of the ipionship belt of the South ic, went down gamely before Fijian, Leweni Wagga, in lea in October. It was one of >est matches seen in Noumea, ding to the regulars. However ex-champ’s cup of bitterness to overflowing when, a few after the match his manager trainer was arrested and :ed with having failed to stop a car accident, in which he !dl y injured a youth. He was a three months’ gaol sentence.
[?]ighted graduate from St. Vincent's [?]l, Sydney, recently—Sister Jessie Sue- She is the daughter of Mrs. Margaret Sue-Sun, of Sigatoka, Fiji.
Rockefeller, Michael Rockefeller, of Governor Rockefeller, will le of a party of Americans who visit Netherlands New Guinea’s ;m Valley on a film-making and tific expedition next March.
Rockefeller is from the Rocke • Museum of Primitive Art in York. The expedition will take nonths, and will be led by Dr. rt Gardner, 34, Director of the ard Film Study Centre. Ameri financial support will amount 0,000 and the NNG Government give more. ♦ * * js Denise Robyn Elizabeth er will marry Mr. Lionel Hurst, ondi, in Sydney on November enise is the attractive daughter [r. and Mrs. Len Palmer, of ul, New Guinea—and Len is veil-known manager of Over- Telecommunications Ltd. in ul. They will both be in Sydney 3 Denise step off into the new . of matrimony.
1 known in P-NG for many as an expert on flora and - Mr. Fred Shaw Meyer, who n charge of the aviary at igl experimental station, has 1 because of ill-health. Mr Meyer was engaged by Sir d Hallstrom and started an for Birds of Paradise, and ;hem in captivity. The aviary °w be closing down and it is ed that some of the birds will 'ect to the USA. Others will the Lae Botanic Gardens, already some are caged. They i be a tourist attraction
[?]he old "Maui Pomare" finally left the [?]n in October (see story p. 49) these [?]k Islands personalities were there to the event—official photographer S. and Percy Henderson (whose familiar [?]ce is heard over Radio Rarotonga).
Photo: R. D. Moore
Before the conclusion of i Samoa’s Constitutional Conver in October, members paid tribul the work of two men who may go down in history as being fathers of the Constitution of dependent Samoa—Professors J Davidson (Australia) and C Aikman (New Zealand). The men have given outstanding se: as advisers to the Working C mittee on the Constitution, an the Convention. They have had difficult and delicate job of d ing distinctions between old ■ and new. Professor Davidson, in November, will attend the debat Samoa by the UN in New York will accompany Samoa’s P Minister Fiame Mataafa, who 1 the Constitution, as approved the Convention, for UN approv
Grand chiefs of the Loy Islands and of the New Caledoi mainland collaborated in Octobe the preparation of a Bougnc ceremonial feast in native s Guest of honour at the feast, w] was held at Magenta Be Noumea, was the Hon. Tualaul Minister for Agriculture in Wes Samoa, who was one of the delegation to the 21st Session of South Pacific Commission Noumea. The Samoan told Loyalty islanders that the si system of cooking as practised the Loyalties was also practised Samoa under a name which m( “Lifou custom” —Lifou being in Loyalty group. The system had t introduced into Samoa by P nesian missionaries who had sei in Lifou in the middle of 1 century. * * * Netherlands Minister for H( Affairs, Mr. Toxopeus, told Dutch Senate in November that believed that the New Guinea Co cil, to begin operating next Ma
Auckland (NZ) Suburbs rugby team was [?] the visitors to Suva for the Hibiscus Fe[?] in October. They played three ma[?] During a Mayoral reception, team manag[?] Cahill (right) presented a club badge to S[?] veteran councillor, C. M. Gopalan, who served continuously for 22 years. On O[?] 29, Mr. Gopalan was elected for a f[?] three years.
Photo: C. L. [?]
April, “probably would not last aeration before New Guinea be i independent”. He said mean -3 the Government would em ically reject all proposals which i lead to Indonesian domina of NNG. So far as he knew, NNG political party, PARNA, no intention of supporting the nesian claim. The Senate ;d the Council bill, thus mak t law. ♦ * * me Age native superstition ed with the cold logic of bieth century British justice small courtroom at Maprik, Guinea, in October. Antag -3 were a native witch doctor ;he Chief justice of P-NG, Mr. 3e Mann. 3 “audience” was a group of e villagers from the cannibal ;ry of the north coast Sepik ct. The witch doctor claimed, the prisoners’ dock, he was nsible for the mystery death seven-year-old boy. 3 Judge intimated that the doctor was a liar and said le should believe his story. i witch doctor demanded to be ed and punished. i Judge said no and discharged There was no evidence that itch doctor had killed the boy. :roup of natives went back to village, wondering who was and who was wrong.
;n in June the big American yacht Wild Goose II called at yn, in the Cooks, it happened re on board a heart specialist ixamined the adopted 4-year aori daughter of the Resident , Mr. J. J. MacCauley, and JacCauley, who suffered from •t complaint. When the doctor he little girl could be cured i operation in America, the of the yacht, Mr. Max Wyman, I to make arrangements, young Cecilia and her mother for Honolulu in the Wild en route, the yacht got into 5, and a fast rescue boat went aid. From Honolulu mother
[?]ed recently to a meeting of the Poly- Association of Sydney—Mrs. Waya Bovill [?]ho recently returned from Suva, with [?]er, Mrs. Dora Blacklock. They are [?]embers of Suva's Malloy family.
daughter flew to Seattle, and ;tober came news that follow he operation Cecilia had died. ♦ ♦ * er almost 35 years close con vith the natives of Papua-New ja, including a wartime stint Coastwatcher behind the lines iw Britain —Mr. J. K. (Keith) rthy, in November, was nted to the important post of Director of Native Affairs, id been acting in that position everal months, following the ment of Mr. Alan Roberts.
k in Sydney after a holiday to New Caledonia, travellers Constance Druitt and Miss I Mullins said it was “com ? different from anything else”, si No. 5 was one-third the than price, there was “no discrimination, and every one le same status”, there “aren’t allflowers, and women can go ; nightclubs alone”. In short, Caledonia was a woman’s se.
[?]ty took time off for a cooling drink [?]atching the events at the Lae (NG) Show [?]ber. The show was opened by the [?]ernor-General, Viscount Dunrossil.
Photo: Pat Robertson
honour at the Polynesian Association, recently—Mrs. Popua Moss, of [?]a, Tonga, her son, Maafu Williams, and his wife, Jan.