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i Cabinet re-shuffle in London rtober 9, British South Pacific >ries found themselves with a Secretary of State for the es—Mr. Reginald Maulding. places Mr. lain Macleod, who recomes the Chancellor of the of Lancaster, the Leader of ouse of Commons, and chair f the Conservative Party. Mr. ing was president of the Board ide.

the job in Fiji in early October Mr. E. R. Bevington, the :ial Secretary, who had just re a surprise appointment as Fiji jpment Commissioner. This was >ost which Sir Alan Burns, Bet of the 1960 Burns’ Report iji, recommended should be ished. Sir Alan attached great tance to its creation. Mr. gton started off his new duties y, and there was great interest tether he would turn out to e man for the job. Mr. H. P. ie will act as Financial Secretary. • ♦ • [. Father Pierre Guichet, the ior at the Catholic Mission at Island, Papua, has been ap 'd Vicar Apostolic of the Gilbert Is. He replaces Bishop Terrienne, left the Colony in February.

[?]re Mrs. Alexander Andrews is well [?]n the Solomons and Fiji, but under her name of Joanne Manning. She is the of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Manning. Mr. is now BSIP Comptroller of Posts [?]egraphs, and Joanne spent most of her [?]fe in the Pacific. In September, in [?]n home in Berkeley, California, she e the mother of a baby daughter.

1 that West Samoa is about to e independent it will have to some statistics. NZ Govern- Statistician, Mr. J. V. Baker, ► visit West Samoa in October Jvise the Government on shing a statistical section. Prime jr Mataafa himself asked for tatistician when he visited gton recently.

Knox Jamieson, popular 1 superintendent of the Paton ial Hospital, Vila, will shortly the New Hebrides. Dr. m will be followed at the hospital by Dr. A. L. Ander ho is expected to arrive from ia in November.

bribed as the “most emphatic ent of its kind made for many . the Fiji Governor, Sir Kenneth >cks, said in October that the i Government stood firmly

(Above), has the distinction of being (BA with honours), and now has [?]rship to study at Cambridge, where [?] to take his MA. Before going to [?] in 1955 he was at the Tonga High He entered Harvard in 1957 and this year. A report from a in September said Langi was to Mr. and Mrs. E. Shore, whose had enabled him to study in the States. —Photo: Hettig.

in Suva recently, Mr. and Mrs. J. A.

The bride was Miss Nora Morvick. [?]e is second officer on the LMS ship [?]hn Williams VI".—Photo: Caines.

the Deed of Cession and the uent promises made on owner l Fijian land. He said he had ed some of the recent Fijian and fears with the Secretary of or the Colonies when he was idon recently.

mea’s Rex theatre is not only air-conditioned, but proprietor Katavinica announced in Sep that he was negotiating to a 400-car drive-in theatre on the beaches —the first in the Pacific territories, but the in the South Pacific (Port >y opened the first a few i ago).

ugly situation which could bring :r to New Zealand’s doorstep ieveloping in Fiji, said Dr. R.

Matters, senior lecturer in aphy at Victoria University of igton, in an address to a igton club in early October.

' essential need was for the s and Indians to subordinate

[?]a first visit to the Polynesian Associa [?]ile on an Australian holiday... are Aull, daughter of the late Mr. [?]G. Aull and Mrs. Aull, of Suva.

[?] in Port Moresby recently, Mr. Donald [?]f Otamata Plantation, and Mrs. Peg formerly of Queensland. Mr. Mott [?]ell known planter and a big number Moresby people attended the reception.

Photo: "South Pacific Post"

larrow racial interests for the f Fiji, he said.

Indians must be given a better i the land, he said. This did ;an that the two races should alised on the subject of land wernight. his were done, the Indians soon be in an economic i in which they could te the Fijian.

Watters also discussed Fiji in r published in the September f Pacific Viewpoint. He said Fiji as a land of living flesh, ves threaded together in dark > that threatened to engulf the “If the solution is not found”, , “it is no exaggeration to say ; may have something like a in the South Pacific . . .” ng officially looked over the and Ellice Group, the Western High Commissioner, Mr. D. rench, at the end of September for the British-French Con jm of the New Hebrides to s first official look there. He ely to find far more is than in the northern group.

Sydney in early October on n to the East, Mrs. Sarah Hall, of author James Norman Hall, ie Press that to her disgust i jet tourists these days climbed er her private beach near i and even turned up on her popping cameras at her. expect to find a nice fat old n lady sitting among her raw d coconuts”, explained the slim Sail, who is one-eighth Poly- She added that Marlon ), who has been seen a lot in filming Mutiny on the Bounty, i very nice but very complex ter, and the Tahitians under him. They don’t care about rities but they like his parties”.

Rabaul marriage of interest, Mr.

Seeto, with his bride who arrived in [?]rom Hongkong. Photo: C. H. Meen

n TEAL made its inaugural flight to American Samoa in ber en route to Tahiti, TEAL chairman G. N. Roberts pre- American Samoa Governor H. e with a New Zealand Saturday ; newspaper—on a Saturday g in Samoa. TEAL, said Mr. 5, would make it its business there on time (and no doubt efore time while there is still rnational Dateline).

and Mrs. Allen Innes, ex dans domiciled in Sydney, are Europe and show no signs of home yet. They were in a in early September pausing going off to Scotland for a . and recently returned from ; Russia, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia and the Baltic, thing they liked, however, hat youth in these places io time for being Beatniks, ■boys or the Australian equiva bodgies or widgies. The Innes have met up with a number ier former New Guinea Terri > including Mrs. Elma Good, June Ewen and Mrs. Hazel yell who lives permanently in these days while her daughter s the Sorbonne.

son, aged four, on a Sydney beach is [?]sia Bowman who, before her marriage Australian clerk, lived in the Western village of Fale-fa, having only slight with European ways. Her success in into suburban life demonstrates the [?]le adaptability of the Polynesian, [?]re years' absence, Mrs. Bowman is [?] in Samoa where she hopes to stay [?]ugh to see the Independence celebra tions in January.— Tele-Photos