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r some long discussions and longer delays, including some tig from Parliament, the Aus- Army Minister, Mr. J. O. r, on December 1, announced overnment had finally agreed ’-NG’s native-manned Pacific Regiment should get native . Selected men will be trained 33missions at the Officer Cadet , Portsea, beginning at the end t year. The PIR has European at the moment.

iano Koilonga, an eleven -old boy from the Guadalcanal tole the hearts of the nurses trended him during his five stay in the Royal Alexandra il, Sydney, where he had plas ;ery for the double cleft palate are lip he was born with. 30 went home again in Novem dw normal and putting on but because he has never nything except milk and hospi is he will be kept in hospital time being while he gets used new village diet.

Dung Andriano headed back to a a chartered TAA plane was Mr. R. Pascall, a technical Df the British Phosphate Com to Melbourne for treatment multiple head injuries he suf -3 a crane accident on Nauru.

with his free-lance camera at the is Carl Kayser, helping to make a the Australian Department of the He was seen there earlier when he [?]alk into Paradise" for an independent and when he made a TV film in the [?]ith LoweII Thomas. Next he is headed for the Philippines.

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se of the nature of his injuries, ’ascall had to sit up with his supported by pillows during the of the trip. He had been taken Nauru to Honiara by ship. 1 as if two mercy flights in that veren’t enough for one month, lernard Lambert, an American •pologist who has been on : Island in the Gilberts for two was flown out of Tarawa to lein by a US Grumman Alba imphibious aircraft after he had ill on Makin. A ship took him rawa. Mr. Lambert was later to Honolulu.

5 Korolevu Air Transport, operates a Cessna to connect ;vu beach hotel with Suva and is building a runway at Nata- Beach, sixteen miles north of ca, to open up the area to 5. One of the proprietors, Mr.

French, says he also plans air for Raki Raki, Ba, and Vatu ♦ * * success in Brisbane of Mr.

"haran Akhil’s horse Raajpoot, won both the Queensland and the Queensland Cup (the orse in 29 years to win the ) has awakened interest in in Fiji. Mr. Akhil is a member Nadi Racing Club, which has I down in disputes with the Department over land leases, i still without a course. Mr. who is a prominent mining lad hoped to import one or two and later breed them in Fiji.

Fiji identity is Mr. Ted Langman, who Fiji after World War I and remained, [?]ed in the British Navy during that Since 1952 he had been employed at the Nadi Airport.

old Territorian, anthropologist P. Chinnery, told a Melbourne ig that he could not understand iressure was being put on Aus to give New Guinea indepen while a lot of the country was lexplored and many natives still s, 1 in Port Moresby, Mr. J. K. ■thy, P-NG Director of Native i, said: “Natives would resume warfare if international pres orced Australia to leave P-NG on. The cry of the natives here always has been ‘Don’t leave s are not ready’.”

y Cleland, wife of the P-NG listrator, told the Sydney Press dsit in November that she and onald liked the Territory so that they had bought land in Moresby and intend to build a there when Sir Donald retires, sons are both up there and andchildren were born there,”

Cleland said. ♦ * * ither book by a former Gover ’ Fiji, Sir Harry Luke, KCMG, e published by Messrs. Harrap in 1962. It is called The Islands South Pacific, and it probably mtain more of the reminiscences pointed observations of Fiji’s g Governor. Sir Harry has i a number of successful books the South Pacific—including i and the South Seas, From a Seas Diary and Queen Salote.

recently at the Catholic Church, Rabaul, [?]Daly, of the Nonga Hospital and Dowling, of the Education Department, The oarents of both visited Rabaul [?]om Australia for the wedding.

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. D. M. Heatley, Resident Com mer of Niue, has reached the ig age, and will leave the Terri n January, on nine months’ ac lated leave. He is very well i and highly regarded in Niue Cook Islands, where he has lengthy service. He plans to the long years of his retirement still is a comparatively young -in New Zealand.

H. W. Storer, well-known for as manager of the Nukualofa i of Morris Hedstrom Ltd., was kualofa last month, seeking a d of his lease of Fofoa Island, ; Vavau group. When Mr. retired from the MH service years ago, he took over the lease, and settled down to it production. Last April, he ndergoing treatment in Vavau al when the hurricane struck rea; and when he got back to Island there was little left of mtation. His lease is expiring, ; wants a renewal before under the heavy cost of rehabilitating antation. Tonga, officially, is the renewal of European But Tonga needs more and coconuts, and a large propor of European-held plantations ;one back to jungle since leases lot renewed. So Mr. Storer is ♦ * * ried in Sydney: Old Territorian Tom Grahamslaw, formerly Collector of Customs until his lent, and Mrs. Mary Chase, of ie Hill, Sydney.

got something to smile about. They winners of the Foursomes Championship year at the Port Moresby Golf Club A. Adler and Mrs. F. Katterns.

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