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Territorial Assembly of Polynesia has still got an imongst its members despite ent death of Deputy Marcel and the banishment of his Pouvanaa a Oopa, to France e of years ago. The new mem- Mrs. Marcel Oopa, widow of e member. She is the first to be elected to the Assembly ti and polled double the num votes of her nearest rival.

new Commander of French in the Pacific, Colonel Fer- Barboteux, who arrived in a by ship at the end of Octo s preceded by a reputation for real soldier’s soldier. He is a e of St Cyr and at the capitu )f France in 1940 was in the -had area of French West He immediately placed him the head of a column of soldiers and they headed for in Libya. There, General Lec pointed him military comman the first enemy territory occu lt the Free French, iter participated in all Leclerc’s

priest on the NG mainland to reach dotal Golden Jubilee is 76-year-old ter Ladener, SVD, of the Divine Word He celebrated it on September 29 [?]afen, near the spot where he first on NG soil 49 years ago. For 40 years. Father Ladener has lived the Halopa mission, a four-hour walk [?]om the Alexishafen coast north of Madang.

ligns in France and was one of rst to enter Hitler’s old head irs at Berchtesgaden, and i the French flag there. After far he soldiered-on in South tm and in French West Afri ;rritories. He was commander ; Western Sahara zone when ited to the Pacific post. He is mmander of the Legion of ir.

i staff changes of Pacific t announced in October: Mr.

Whitts, senior clerk in the NZ ment of Island Territories, has ippointed secretary-treasurer of Mr. H. J. Powell, acting secretary of Norfolk Island, :en appointed official secretary mi.

ish author Richard Pape was Iney in November en route to on a writing job and also to out the chances of establishing f the famous Cheshire Homes

tart a nursing career at the Townsville Hospital is Diane Passlow, 17, of Territory pilot, the late Captain slow. Diane is a member of an old family, and her grandfather, one-time [?]er, Andy Villiers, still lives in Lae, [?]ince leaving school Diane has been yed by TAA at the Lae terminal.

Photo: Pat Robertson

Gibson, popular TEAL representative Airport has joined the Fiji Visitors Off duty he is a keen sportsman has won trophies for rifle shooting.

e sick in Papua, where some of ;roundwork has already been >y P-NG Chief Justice Mann committee. The founder of omes, British hero Grp.-Capt. ire, VC, will himself make a trip to Port Moresby by the end.

irtant post of director of ilu’s Bernice P. Bishop m has been given to Dr.

W. Force, curator of Oceanic ology and Ethnology at o Natural History Museum, der Spoehr has resigned as r to become chancellor of the 'est Centre for cultural and al interchange which was re established at the University vaii. * * * ttle older and with another ad -5 to his credit, Captain Brian on was back in Sydney in No r. Currently he is recovering being shot up in the Congo he was flying for a Belgium He had just completed a flight to a sticky spot with when a Katanga jet fighter 3ver and shot a rocket into his Monkton collected a piece of el from the rocket, some burns he fire that followed and spent ime in hospital in Leopoldville ter in Brussels. pite this incident, he says he is

vernment Printer, Mr. W. S. Nicholas, [?]r of the Territory's senior and popular soon due for retirement. But that [?]e before next year, and in October celebrating his birthday at the Port Yacht Club, where he is president.

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the side of the Katangans and ike some day to meet the pilot ot him up. In his opinion, the ops have behaved very badly mga and UN policy there is ed. lin Monkton pioneered a of South Pacific air services > Trans Oceanic Airways fly s in the years after the last iutes that are now run by ompanies with land planes, also one of the prime movers h Pacific Airlines service be- Jonolulu and Tahiti—but by e this airline finally got off md, Monkton was no longer hcture. These days he spends them summers as an airlines Europe and the Southern s sailing off Australia’s eas ast.

Fr. Pierre Guichet, whose nent as Catholic Bishop of >erts was recently announced Pope, was very ill with nia plus complications when rd the news at Oba-Oba, He spent the next two weeks before he was able to head ice for his consecration. He 3 his appointment early next Mgr. Guichet had been 14 Papua. * * * specks in the South Seas have tting attention from film units In October, three cameramen, Mewington, Jim Allen and Fox, returned to the UK after the first professional film of . The film was commissioned -sh Petroleum. In October a t of the Commonwealth News ormation Bureau, led by pro 7. N. Bagnall, was making a e photographic coverage of

[?] Lae in October, Mr. Daniel Patrick Miss Shirley Tronerud. The bride iece, Debbie Hilliard, made a pretty I. There were 200 guests at the [?]emony. Photo: Pat Robertson.

John Barnaby, of the Papua- Guinea Education Department, Moresby, took time off from in October and completed an iys’ walk to the top of Mt. ia—at 13,363 ft the highest in the Owen Stanley Ranges, ibject of the hike was to ex ; ham-radio calls with his 2,000 miles away in Dubbo, They got in a few “hullos” atmospherics got in the way. iition, he was exploring caves, photographs for the National aphic Magazine and collecting r and flower specimens for Kew ns, England.

attractions of Sydney as a retirement have finally won far as Mr. W. F. (“Steve”) son is concerned. He has been century in Fiji but retired in :r and will leave the Colony • He went there in 1911 for denial Sugar Refining Co. and ed with the company for 38 before retiring. When, in 1952, [ricultural and Industrial Loans was established in Fiji he be secretary and now carries with o Sydney an inscribed silver to commemorate his nine years : office.

Palmar Annandale, of Apia, Western since last February has been an Arts duate at Sydney University. Miss le took a correspondence course with Education Department while she was as a librarian in Apia and thus passed university Entrance examination. Her include anthropology and psychology hopes when she has completed her to do some research in Samoa "to some misconceptions about Islands people".— Tele-Photos.