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'he Commissioner of Police in , Mr. R. H. T. Beaumont, col ed with a sudden “black-out” at ney Airport on February 4, when was on his way to a Police Con tion in Tasmania. He was taken at 2 to South Sydney Hospital for ;ialist treatment. No cause of Mr. umont’s collapse could be found, three days later he caught the le back to Fiji, apparently quite . When he fell at the airport, he red his head rather severely, and the circumstances he decided to ;el his visit and return home.

r. Richard Salisbury, assistant essor of anthropology at the Uni ity of California, at Berkeley, re ed to San Francisco in January * another field trip to study the e in the Eastern Highlands of r Guinea. On this trip to New lea, he was accompanied by his , a sociologist, and their two 11 children. A former Australian onal University scholar, Dr. ibury, 35, also studied the pre ss of economic change among the li people of the Gazelle Peninsula, is book, From Stone to Steel, is ?e published soon by the Mel *ne and Cambridge University ses. ♦ * * ts. Vida Mozzell, of Sydney, is ig to keep alive her memories of sar she spent in New Guinea 30 s ago. t the back of her Sydney home

[?]y festivities, and a flood of letters and grams from all over the world, greeted F iji veteran, Sir Hugh Ragg, last month, the attainment of his 80th birthday, try 26 is a significant date—Australia born on that day, and so was "Hughie" almost exactly 100 years later, in Fiji.

i corrugated iron and fibro shed sing relics and reminders which collected during her visit. All the is she collected are hand-made, range from clam shell bracelets eadstones, which are carved from d and bear a likeness to the head chief who has died. Most of her action comes from the Sepik. * * * r hen the committee of the Kone i Club, Port Moresby, rejected ipplication for membership from lixed-race public servant, Julius a, Mr. J. K. McCarthy, Director Native Affairs, who nominated a, resigned. The club was asked reconsider in January. Result: a was still not admitted.

ie island paradise of Moorea, 12 > across a channel from Tahiti, be home for a small group of ieologists from Auckland Uni ty for the next two or three :hs. They are, Mr. Roger Green, r lecturer in pre-history and his ly and Miss Janet Davidson, a ber of the University aeological Society. They will the beautiful volcanic valley of lohu which covers about 2,500 and contains the remains of : than 500 stone structures. Their : is being supported by the rican Museum of Natural )ry.

[?]ed from leave recently were Mr. and Ken Nizette, of Lae (top) who with their children went off to Singapore and a of Malaya. And passing through Lae the same time on their way to Aus to begin leave were ADO Alex Zweck, Mrs. Zweck, of Bougainville, but well [?]wn in Lae and other parts of P-NG.

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nong the recent farewells to long islands residents were two of :ular interest—one in Rarotonga, ; Islands, to Mr. Maurice Baker, has retired as Director of Agri re in the Cooks, a position he leld since 1939; and another, in New Hebrides, to Dr. Knox json, Medical Superintendent of :elebrated Baton Memorial Hos since 1947. Dr. Jamieson will ring in Australia. Besides being st-rate medical man he is ac ed in the New Hebrides as a anic of no mean ability, a ;htsman, musician, actor and lawyer!

A’s New Caledonia corres :nt Fred Dunn reported in ry that Noumea was in the of an invasion of stage acts Australia—“they include Ger- Italians, Filipinos—and even alians,” he said. “There are e singers, copies of Elvis ;y, a strip teaser and a hypnotist, usly, all these artists, like Aus -1 visiting boxers, are billed as umber ones of Australia . . . le locals must think Australians weird mob. NZ and Australian riders have also been appear n local tracks.” * * * new expedition to the snow ed Cartensz Peaks in the NNG al Highlands has set out to reach

[?] ed to return to Suva from Sydney in [?] were Mr. and Mrs. William Wildin. [?] ildin is Pasture Research Officer with [?] i Agriculture Department but for some [?]e has been doing research in Australia he CSIRO. His object is to develop a which will resist the long dry as well short wet seasons of northern Viti Levu.

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ore than 15,000-feet high Car pyramid. The expedition is led e Austrian alpinist, Heinrich ■ (49), a noted climber who experience in Europe, Africa ie Himalayas. In the party are 1 Kippax (30) an Australian, ; Temple (22) New Zealander, iree Dutchmen, Dr. Valk, Mr. ga and Mr. ter Laag. The ex m will also carry out observa in the ethnological and geo fields. * * * > West Samoan policemen in y found that Samoan youth taking its new found inde ice seriously. The two left police car in the street while nade a purchase in a nearby returned to hear that it had ;een heading out of town with ly-riding youths at the wheel.

: Australian long jump cham- Alan Crowley, of Brisbane, to stay in Papua and represent i-New Guinea at the Perth •e Games this year, iwley’s decision was announced mary by the secretary-treasurer e Papua-New Guinea Empire s Organisation Committee, Mr.

Townsend. Mr. Townsend said ley decided not to return to the :rsity of Quensland. Crowley, 'as born in Papua. P-NG will its own athletes competing in tames for the first time. * * * , Richard Angeloni, Senior As t Secretary with the British Ad tration in the New Hebrides for

happy about spending four months leave in India is Rabaul, NG, Police Ron Curtis. Ron was born in India served in the Police Force there.

ist six years, received the OBE e New Year Honours—shortly he had been told of his appoint as Government Secretary in the rt and Ellice Islands. Mr. R. s; who at present holds the post, been appointed Secretary for ctorate Affairs in the BSIP. * * * f. F. Donovan, accompanied by ife, has taken up duty in Nor [sland as the new Official Secre of the Administration. He is chelor of Economics, and for time he has been Administrative r at the CSIRO research station iffiths, NSW. Mr. Donovan suc- Mr. Powell who, after some in NI, now goes with his wife wo children to the Trust Terri of Nauru, as Official Secretary Nauru, close to the Equator, t as desirable a place of resid as Norfolk; but Nauru’s official , last century, was “Pleasant 1” —so named by early navigators liked the people and the climate.

ss Margaret Gunther, daughter )r, J. T. Gunther (Assistant inistrator of Papua and New ea) and Mrs. Gunther, arrived in Australia in December from ,r’s wander abroad with a friend, Jan Cullen. With three other they bought a car in London, ravelled 20,000 miles in Europe. :heir way home, the two girls d many Asian countries. ;aret Gunther plans to rejoin parents in Port Moresby in :h.

[?]ugged up for weather that isn't as kind [?]i's, Mr. J. P. Amputch, Fiji's Com [?]er of Labour, visited a British [?]um refinery in Kent recently while on leave.