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ttractive Cook Islands school ler Mrs. Teupokoina Morgan, y elected member of the Cook ids Assembly, at the new session Larotonga in June made a plea ‘European members of the Pub- Service to mix with us more y so that they get a truer pic of the mentality of the Maori”, had much to offer Maori Cook ders, she said, and they were g their aid in their professional cities. But they should come and the people in their homes, re the Maori’s finer qualities I be seen”. Mrs. Morgan was a ber of the Cooks’ delegation to "ourth South Pacific Conference abaul in 1959.

Moresby in early July said 11 to two long time New i residents—P-NG Depart of Civil Affairs Director : Champion and retired busi m W. E. (Bill) Wyatt. Both ve in Australia.

Champion was born in the Ty, and is a member of a New Guinea family. He has been a conscientious, warm- I Administration officer with t number of friends.

Wyatt has been 35 years in and retired from active busi fe several years ago, but re his great interest in corn work.

[?]ude Champion, who retired on June 30 [?]e P-NG Administration, where he was [?]r of Civil Affairs. See item below.

istralian jockeys would probably aterested in riding at a meeting apua-New Guinea, said leading ralian jockey Jack Purtell, in Moresby in early July. He and vife were making a holiday visit. ;11 suggested that an invitation s with mainland jockeys might boost the sport of kings in the tory.

visitor to Fiji in June was Cap ’reddie Ladd, Fiji Airways’ first He had just returned from a tour of America and Canada, in Ladd plans to add a third ft to the two he already oper an his amphibious tourist and ;r services from Auckland.

i Kabus, a Port Moresby de boy sentenced to nine months n June 19, for stealing a case i, asked the Supreme Court if □ld get the rum when he had :ted his sentence. Chief Mann explained that the nine

[?]e official opening of the modern new station in Lautoka, Fiji, in June (see [?] were the Lautoka Town Clerk, Mr. Les Kimber, and Mrs. Kimber.

[?]ilip Thompson, wife of the Lautoka Officer, Dr. Thompson, at the official of the new Lautoka police station in June.

ths was punishment and not pay : for the rum. ;di, who was apparently a mable fellow, also asked if he 1 serve the seven day sentence

his accomplice, Serbung Gab.

ever, Mr. Justice Mann told that Serbung would have to go tol for the “little bit of wrong ad done”.

the intelligent principle that it t cost anything to be courteous sides, both the Indonesian Am or to Australia, Brig.-Gen. S. ihardjo, and the Secretary e Australian Department of >ries, Mr. C. R. Lambert, were as official guests to the 1 Territories Ball, in Sydney’s Ballroom, in July. The ball, sd by a committee from the lian School of Pacific Ad ation, now looks like being mual event for P-NG and people visiting Sydney.

i a young Lautoka (Fiji) ’> Chandar Bhan, in early is feeling in his pocket for a to give two Fijians who had hed him, the men attacked

[?]d Mrs. Phillip Meyer, of Vaucluse, on board the Matson liner "Mariposa” they sailed in June for a holiday in They stayed with friends, Mr. and Dobbie. Mr. Dobbie is manager of Bank of New South Wales in Suva.

[?]g in Sydney, formerly of Vila and [?]re Mr and Mrs. Henri Dubois, here [?]hed with their new daughter, Caroline.

i, knocked him to the ground and bed him of £5. Commented a ior police officer in Suva: “The ctice is increasing. People should on the alert if they are stopped night and asked for matches.” nmented the Fiji Times : “The ce warning is a timely and ierately worded warning about il thugs. But it would have been, linkable 20 years ago. The pre situation means that somewhere the mental and psychological :e-up of the Colony an important has slipped.”

pua-New Guinea’s hotels came fire in early July from the r of Australia’s Federal Oppo , Mr. Arthur Calwell, after a i visit which took him to Port shy, Madang, Lae, Rabaul and ng among other places. He de d hotels in many places as , and said there seemed to have little or no improvement in since early post-war. . Calwell thinks licensed motels be the answer to encourage tourism. He will also write e P&O-Orient line, suggesting t liners visit P-NG more reg , and visit other ports besides Moresby. k in Fiji after their Rugby af Australia, the Fijian team’s nager and coach, Apakuki Tui

[?]ationally famous Rotorua (NZ) Maori Rangi, boards a TEAL Electra in Auckland [?]e tor a visit to Fiji, where she made [?]tensive tour and appeared on radio programmes.

i. and captain, Orisi Dawai, :d that the Fiji football season Id start sooner when there is an •alian tour. Early selection of sam had contributed to the poor rmances in the first half of the alian tour. The team had not fit when it arrived in Australia, said, but it improved, and was ky not to win the third test, tourists lost two tests and drew therlands New Guinea was to an armed conflict than it 2 months ago, said the Nether- Ambassador to Australia, Dr. ! Beus, in Brisbane in early He said it was evident that an

I build-up had been going on,

Holland took the threat sly. Indonesian forces were estimated at 250,000 men— -50 to one compared with i forces in the area. Talk about at from NNG to Indonesia was ensical” he said.

people who met modest Mr. n Nelson aboard the July en route to Papua and New i, knew that they were asso with a Knight First Class of >yal Swedish Order of Vasa, s awarded the honour recently -den for his services to trade mmerce between Australia and i —he has served the Swedish er of Commerce in Sydney years, four of them as presi- Nelson left in July with Mrs. to visit the friends and busi 3ntacts of his old-established lessrs. Nelson and Robertson

[?]bar, a fourth year apprentice in Fiji, [?]tes the controls of a Public Works [?]ent electrical training dummy at a [?]ow in Lautoka in June. The dummy [?]e working of a car's electrical system clearly visible.

Ltd. They kept quiet about the honour—Mrs. Nelson, it is sus d, feared that someone might ;ss her as “Lady Nelson”, a lie” to which she is in fact en —in Swedish circles, anyhow.

nail sample of sand has been :om Fiji to South Africa. It quested by Mr. David Watson, Dmberg Street, Port Elizabeth, ote explaining: “In a corner home I have a small rockery vhich I have scattered sand >il from many parts of the I would very much like a ains from famous Fiji.” * * * having, at its peak, employed han 200 Europeans through ; Territory, Qantas in August duce its Papua-New Guinea o three Australians—all in oresby—in charge of popular Ken Wightman. TAA will ' er general handling services, o the big Qantas building in oresby. Qantas staff has been tically reduced in P-NG rAA and Ansett-ANA took *t year, but in August Qantas e off the twice weekly Elec ich fly through Port Moresby igkong, and re-route them Darwin. They will be re with one weekly Super Con n service.

New Guinea in July, after an eight tour of Australia, went footloose New Miss Lillian Schoedler, who says she [?]'t get the big Territory out of her She made her first visit as a round rist in August, 1959, and ended by 16 months, a lot of them in the rea and five of them in the more [?] parts of the interior of NNG (where photographed above with a friend). [?]e she goes from Port Moresby to (NNG), but by September she will back to NG's Western Highlands.