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j resignation of Judge E. F. ivell, of the Apia High Court, oeen announced. Judge Roth during his term of office in jrn Samoa has earned the re and esteem of the public by :onscientious and correct at nce to his judicial duties and eparture with his wife in De sr is much regretted in Apia, ill probably take up magisterial ; in New Zealand.

ler James Dwyer, parish priest haul, and a member since its ation of the Legislative Coun f Papua-New Guinea, last t h celebrated the 25th an ary of his ordination, was ordained in Sydney in and went to Papua a year During the war he was an chaplain in New Guinea and n, and after the war helped d the Samarai Mission. He to Rabaul in 1952, where he v a member of the Rabaul Advisory Council and the New

n District Advisory Council,

ers of the church and public led a celebration in his honour i November. is now on holidays in Aus-

of friends recently farewelled Norfolk meteorological officer Mr. Ron Vivian, Vera and their three sons lan, Phillip, i before their departure for Lae, New Mr. Vivian has been active in Norfolk's affairs and both Mr. & Mrs. Vivian are keen photographers.

Photo: Raymond Hoare

Mr. Frank M. Bateson, of Ra tonga, the South Pacific’s b known astronomer, who is direc of the variable star section of 1 Royal Astronomical Society of IS Zealand, said in Auckland in 1 vember that he and others w selecting about 15 potential si throughout New Zealand that wo be suitable for a major observatf The project was being backed the US National Science Foum tion through the University!

Pennsylvania, of which Mr. Ba son is an associate. The preparafi work would take about two yea:

Mr. L. A. Shanks has be appointed Assistant Secretary, I partment of Islands Territories, N Zealand, in succession to Mr. A., Dare, who was recently appoinj Resident Commissioner, Cc Islands. Mr. Shanks has been I sponsible for the administration! matters associated with st seconded to the Islands in rece years. He is 36. * * ♦ Mr. A. M. Hall has been appoint Resident Agent, Mauke Islal Cooks, in succession to Mr. G. Wj Perks. A Bachelor of Agricultui Science, Mr. Hall is married, ag 33. He speaks fluent New Zealaj Maori. ♦ ♦ ♦ The first man to have joined t Papua-New Guinea Administrate since the war who has since risi to the rank of a District Cor missioner will take up his nf appointment this month. He is 1 F. P. Kaad, previously Distn

At the girls' first communion breakfast at Roman Catholic Church in Port Moresby —l Trevor Jones, and daughters, Patricia Karen.

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;r for Western New Britain, will become District Commis r for the Central District based ►rt Moresby.

Kaad served with the 2/7 lion in New Guinea and 1 the Administration as a 1 officer after the war. was also the first officer to a full-time Administration arship to an Australian Uni y. * * * J. P. Bayly, senior citizen of has been visiting Australia; in November he entered St. nt’s Hospital, Sydney, to •go an operation on one of his

. Aggie Gray, internationally i hostess of Aggie Gray’s Apia, arrived in Auckland d Tofua late in November and ed to spend some time in New id on vacation.

[?]. C. H. Hayward has returned to New after 10 years in Fiji and adjoining with the New Zealand Ministry of He had been stationed at Funafuti Ellice Group in charge of construction South Pacific Air Transport Council eteorological station. He was also con with NZ Ministry of Works projects at irport, Laucala Bay, Niue Island and Samoa. After leave he expects to with his department at Wellington.

lub Associates' president Mrs. Del at the Associates' annual dinner in oresby, hands a golf trophy to Rae, r of well known Port Moresby official Ray Goriss.

3 flotation based on “Ted” n’s Kokopo (New Guinea) ation, Makurapau Estate Ltd., jpened by the brokers (Roland m & Co.) on November 17. And nber 17, the day after Can 's announcement of all kinds w taxation, was “Black Thurs on Sydney Exchange, where ; and shares were trembling umbling. within three days, by Mon- November 21, the whole offer e public of 560,000 shares of ich had been over-subscribed; applications went quickly to lent. * ♦ * gations that the NNG police exceeded their powers in put down tribal warfare in the a Valley are now the subject i official investigation. The ley-General at Hollandia, Mr. d von Maynenfeldt, has flown [land to question an Assistant :t Commissioner, who led a expedition into the valley in 9 when there was fighting be- Papuan tribes.

Seventh Day Adventist i in the Western Highlands Guinea is building a hospital >as, in the Wabag area. It ter for both Europeans and . Dr. R. O. Yeatts, who has n charge of the Hansenide at Mt. Hagen will take over )as when he completes his h in the United States in six > time. Mr. F. L. Aveling, who en sawmilling at Mt. Hagen feral years is directing the g of the new hospital. * * * j. W. Logan, formerly editor ue Mountains Advertiser, iba, NSW, has been appointed ing-editor of New Guinea Courier, with headquarters at

Pearson, a well known Burns Philp who has been appointed manager of Burns Philp (South Sea) Ltd., Lautoka, Fiji.

He succeeds Mr. John Blair, decided to return to Australia expiry of his two-years con ♦ ♦ ♦ . Harry Wooley has been nted general manager of the ic Biscuit Company and Union ; Pty. Ltd., two Suva companies d by Hackshalls Ltd., Sydney.

Wooley succeeds Mr. Malcolm e, who died at Suva on No ers. Mr. Vernon Hawkesley has appointed assistant manager th companies. ♦ * * John H. Donaldson, MA, who for three years principal of a College, Apia, before re ig to New Zealand some years tias just been appointed prin of Waitaki Boys’ High School, las lately been principal of aru High School.

Reserve Bank of Australia I an advertisement in the New a newspapers in early De t for “a male Papuan or New :an holder of the Queensland r Certificate or equivalent tion qualification”. The story 1 the ad.: The Australian nment’s Reserve Bank was ig to employ its first New a native, with the hope of ng him in Australia to Uni -7 level and—who knows?—pos making him into the Terri first native back-room nist. * * * 5-year-old ex-Scots guardsman Drought the discipline of the i Army parade ground to the ! police of P-NG, retired in iber after 26 years’ service. He nor Inspector A. M. Sinclair, irge of police training at Port by’s Kila barracks. “The makes a good policeman, con ig his social background. He the job seriously and learns ighly, commented Inspector

the world's most travelled stowaways el Abdullah and Joseph Vaz—were the South Pacific in November, still ig. They had been on 16 ships, and no will allow them to land because nobody vhere they belong. "PIM" reported their [?] September, p. 51, and in November re back in Melbourne on the Strathnaver.

Photo: J. P. Shortall

! ocean liner was the last oasis world of speed, said the pre n t of Matson Lines, Mr.

Dlph Sevier, in November. It i sea-going resort, not just a > of getting to a destination; cans of adventure and escape, le in the jet-age remained un ed. * * sjc the news in Sydney in Not —Fijian Jone Kurisamo, of 3vu, who has a wooden leg. is flown to Sydney at the ex of Sydney dental surgeon r Wearn to receive medical lent to save what is left of nb from being amputated. Dr. i met Jone earlier this year the doctor passed through Fiji ; way to New York for a con e on the rehabilitation of 3S.

;h New Guinea favours an ndent Melanesian federation sTG, Australian New Guinea le Solomon Islands, according reus Asiepo, a Papuan leader ING Administration official. >aid this in The Hague when d other Papuans were on a ng visit” to Holland. ning he could speak on be : the whole of the NNG popu- Asiepo said it was part of ties to travel throughout the ry and keep in constant touch he population. Questioned on ws on Tunku Abdul Rahman’s to mediate in the Dutch-In an dispute. Asiepo said: “Let ransfer Malaya to Indonesia, should keep his hands off us.” * sic * Norman Baxter, of the Fiji editorial staff, and his wife ly, were in Sydney on leave in ber-January. But just to even up, Stuart Inder, one of editors, with wife Jo, flew off in December for a holiday at vu and other tourist spots.

I and Harry Heath made a gay picture achcombers' Night function in the Port Moresby RSL Hall in November.

Photo: Papuan Prints