People
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Discussing tourism in the Fiji Legis ive Council in April, Indian mem r, B. D. Lakshman, mentioned tat is a sore point with many people Fiji—that “tourism should be de ioped in other areas besides Suva”. : went on to deplore three other >ects of tourism in Fiji: “Too many :is, aggressive beggars, and aggres e peddlers in the streets.” tn the same debate, Mr. H. B. bson, who represents one of the :er islands, argued that the outer mds had a lot more to offer irists than any part of the main md of Viti Levu (on which Suva situated). And Dr. A. H. Sahu an complained t f lat there were ny people who seemed to think t Suva was Fiji, and what’s more, t he suspected a lot of members the Fiji Visitors’ Bureau held the le opinion.
lie 1961 conception of Papua-New inea as a “multi-racial society” is ig pushed from every level, includ the top. And this notwithstanding last year, the opinion at the top that the native people would be shed with nothing less than “full -government,” and the Europeans Id stay “only if they were good”.
John Gunther, P-NG Assistant
Judy Wong, eldest daughter of Mr. and Wong York Lun, of Suva, plans to write [?]esis on the history of Chinese migration [?]iji for her MA degree, which she is now [?]g at Sydney University. She has a Commonwealth scholarship.
Photo: C. L. Cheng
Iministrator, undoubtedly was voic- I current Administration opinion ten as guest speaker at the in gural dinner of the Port Moresby nior Chamber of Commerce, on jril 28, he called for an end of all rms of racial discrimination in NG.
The Territory was a “multi-racial riety”, he said, and no one would ;1 comfortable in its unless every ssible barrier that marked man >m man was broken down. The sistant Administrator’s speech was cresting in another way, too—it s one of the few times that any of : Administration top brass has ad tted that there is discrimination. Of jrse, there is discrimination in —the very stupid kind, based purely racial lines, that prevents European taking an educated puan into a hotel. with him for a ial; and the more general discrim dion based on economic and social Kinds that exists in every country the world.
rhe possibilities of some loose form federation between Melanesian ritories was a topic that was being lely discussed, the Secretary for )tectorate Affairs, Mr. V. J. Ander i, said in Honiara in April after •resenting the Solomons at the ming of the reconstituted P-NG pslative Council in Port Moresby. . Andersen said there was no in ation as yet as to the form such federation might take, if it took ce at all. Mr. Andersen was ompanied to the ceremony by iriano Kelesi, president of the daita Council. * ♦ ♦ "ook Islander Teapa Teapa has illy lost his seat in the Pukapuka md Council after holding it for a ord time—since 1924, without a ak. Teapa Teapa is aged more n 70, and a local report says that
[?]a gathering of the Polynesian Association Sydney—George Little, formerly of Lautoka, Fiji, and George Sue, of Vatukoula.
Photo: A. E. Ray
iad it not been for his age” there is no doubt he would have regained e seat at the elections. * * * Love will find a way, according to Kandrian (New Britain) houseboy med Atupisa, who in a Rabaul >urt in May was fined £2 for ad [nistering what he apparently hoped is a “love potion” to his attractive linese girl employer. The charge id that Atupisa had “added a reign substance” (believed to be tive hair lotion) to the girl’s drink l water, unknown to her. He ad tted he wanted to attract her by sans of this “charm”, and accord % to the evidence it wasn’t the first ae, either. A previous “potion” had :luded methylated spirit.
Mr. Val Savage retired from the ok Islands administration in April er 40 years’ service as a teacher, i was at the Avarua School from 21 to 1956. The Cooks know Val /age not merely for his teaching lity, but also for his sporting ivities, his piano tuning ac nplishments and as a repairer of cks and typewriters. * * * P-NG’s controversial “eras h ’ cher training course (officially de flated the E for Emergency Course) e first fruits on May 1 when 56 dents graduated from Rabaul’s daguna Teachers’ College after six nths’ intensive lectures and studies, e next day they were flown out Rabaul to take up teacher posts at age schools throughout the Terri y. With them went final exhorta ns of P-NG Director of Education, . G. Roscoe: “Don’t paint a rosy ture of the task before you. You setting out on an arduous and de nding occupation.” * * * "iji’s Superintendent of Prisons, jor Basil Sellers, reported in April
[?]ried at the Methodist Church, Rabaul, NG, [?]ntly—Mr. Wong Shiu Hung and Miss Seeto [?]g. Photo: C. H. Meen
at crimes of violence in Fiji were arkedly increasing. During 1959 ey had been far out of proportion to e increase in the number of isoners. Fiji seemed to be follow g a general tendency in this regard i said, and added: “The winds of ime in the Pacific, although not srhaps yet at hurricane force, are Ttainly more than a gentle breeze.”
MARRIED: Miss Pamela Gillespie, lighter of well-known Islands’ ;rchant, Mr. Robert Gillespie, to r. Roger Gray, in Sydney, on May . Mr. Gray has been with Robert llespie Pty.. Ltd. in Sydney for some le and on May 12 he and his bride w to Papua, where Mr. Gray has :ome Pt. Moresby manager of the ;w Guinea company. * * *
About To Marry: Miss
argaret Wilde, daughter of the late >rman R. Wilde, of Wau, NG, and Mrs. Eileen Wilde, of Macalister, >W, to Mr. Percy Whittle, in Lon n on May 19. They will live in •lombo, where Mr. Whittle is an ctrical engineer. The late Norman ilde once worked the Cliffside min * lease in partnership with his sister, rs. Doris Booth. He had a dis guished aviation record in peace d war, and helped get civilians out NG when the Japs invaded in 1942. ; received the US Bronze Star for i service in the Philippines. Mrs. ilde now lives with her son Bruce, lo has a small sheep and grain jperty.
[?]n Lai, vice-captain of the Fiji Soccer Team [?]ring NSW in April, took time off to call "Pacific Islands Monthly's" Sydney head [?]rters and watch the technical side at work, [?]n has a special interest; back in Suva he [?] compositor with a PIM sister publication, daily "Fiji Times". Operating the lino type is Barri O'Neill.
Tasmanian Attorney-General, F. R. agan, unveiled Tasmania’s memorial ) the late Harold Gatty, of Fiji, in ite March. The memorial is at Campbell Town, birthplace of the tan who made the first round-the orld flight (with Wiley Post) in 1931, tid who founded Fiji Airways. The lemorial is in the form of a 20 ft eel column, topped with a globe see PIM, Feb., p. 52). Donations om Fiji helped erect the memorial, it most support came from Tas anians themselves, happy to per- Jtuate the memory of a distinguished dive son.
Two of the famous Trapp Family igers went home to the United ites in March after four years as ssionary teachers in Papua. They ; Misses Maria and Rosemary app, who have been working with : Roman Catholic Order of the :red Heart. The Trapp Family sir broke up several years ago en four members married and two iers died. During their last concert Sydney the Misses Trapp met a ssionary priest, Father Kevin irphy, who encouraged them to rk in the islands. * * * \n assurance that Britain had no lire to delay the independence of f of her overseas dependencies was en by Mr. Duncan Sandys, Secre y of State for Commonwealth lations, at the Sierra Leone inde
[?]r designed, no less, is this new uniform [?] being worn by air hostesses with TEAL, playing both jacket and topcoat are hostesses Mary Ashcroft and Pam Salmon.
dence celebrations, in Freetown, \pril. le told a Press conference, “You take it that throughout the De dencies of Britain the same pro : you have seen brought to corn ion here is going on.’’ t was Britain’s intention to lead ry one of them without exception ndependence and there was no de to delay the process.
leaning behind the police lines letio, Tarawa, the other day, a >ner saw a pair of shoes jutting i the sand. He removed the sand uncovered the skeleton of an •rican marine, complete with dis rated machine gun and two r bottles. Police buried the re is in Betio cemetery.
[?]elbourne on a week's tour, New Guinea [?]girl Barnaba Komik, from a village near [?]ng, with Sister Maryangela Spellacy, of [?]hafen Mission. Barnaba, who was [?]d at the Divine Word Mission, Alexishafen, the trip as a prize in a handwriting [?]etition. A Fiji winner was Mun Swamy, [?]f Nadi. Sister Maryangela, Brisbane born, [?] lawyer before she joined the sisterhood.
[?]arry Heatley, with Mr. and Mrs. T. De' [?]e, dined at the Hotel Papua recently all three of them "went finish" from [?]erritory—the De' Hesselles to Brisbane, and Mr. Heatley to Auckland. —Papuan Prints