Tourist Dollars

Guam Looking For Tourist Dollars

The newest island looking for outpouring of tourist dollars Guam, a New Fork Times rej says.

Correspondent A. M. Rosem reported from Agana that the N has suspended the previously-requi security clearance which it requi of all Americans visiting the isla a centre of powerful United Sti Navy and Strategic Air Comm bases. Foreigners are still requi to have clearance—political health checkups—before a visit, ; foreign ships are not allowed to Agana harbour.

But, Rosenthal said, some Gu folk hope for a tourist developm programme which would enable th to broaden their economy. And tl see the Navy action as hopeful.

There is no unemployment—i the entire island economy depe; entirely on military activity i military construction. This has ten< to discourage investment beca some foresee a time when milit spending will not continue at j present levels. The Strategic .

Command, for instance, has alre* closed some bases and is consider closing others throughout the wo as planes become replaced by it siles.

Rosenthal reported that the he for tourists is now at the “if on] stage, with Guamanians telling h that development could come ] only” someone would clear a bea and “if only” someone would bu a hotel.

And the newspaperman says tl Governor Bill Daniels speaks “pil ingly” about such poor imitations island beauty as Hawaii and Tah —believing Guam’s attractions a the prettiest in the Pacific.

VEL in the Pacific area in 62 is expected to increase :r cent, on last year, but cost will remain about the Travel agents believe that , New Zealand, Australia, uji will show the greatest se in popularity this year, annual conference of the : Area Travel Association >ld this in Hongkong. * * * ng an officially - sponsored ng campaign against wild dogs Labasa area of Vanua Levu, 1 wild dogs were killed in one In this first campaign against is 200 baits were laid. * * * ;-in-the-heart boy Lloyd Raidi

after a suc heart opera i the Royal sn’s Hos- Melbourne, y sailed to Nauru his father, Raidinen, Triaster. As t for home, Anna Kal-

In A Nutshell

36, of Vila, New Hebrides own from Vila to Melbourne ly ill with a brain tumor. But id in Melbourne. ♦ * * ; Tutai Utanga has retired from »ok Islands Public Service after ars as a teacher. She was I at the Avarua School, Raro and has taught there since $ Sjs ♦ former New Guinea patrol Mr. Frank E. Gare, 43, has ppointed West Australian Corn tier of Native Welfare. * * * ks, carvings and bark paintings he Sepik River district of P-NG 1 great interest in Sydney in iry when an antique shop put exhibition. * * ♦ G newspapers are asking the listration to recommend for a Humane Society award, i Kaha, a Papuan who in y saved his wife by fighting a crocodile.

Dr. Guy Ldison, of Paris, has taken up his appointment as Executive Officer for Health, with the South Pacific Commission, Noumea. * S?C * Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Olivers of Labasa are to leave Fiji for Tonga after 32 years. They went to Fiji in 1929 and for the last 32 years Mr.

Chivers has served with Morris Hed strom Limited in various capacities.

For the last eight years he has been the firm’s manager at Labasa, and he is going to Tonga to take over the firm’s branch there.

Radio Honiara in February planned to start a regular Friday vernacular broadcast from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. * * * The choir from St. Anthony’s

Parish, Nukualofa, won the Catholic

singing competi

tion of Tongatapu. * * * Mr. L. Morrison, ex p 1 o ration en gineer with Sherrit Gordon Mines of Canada has been

visiting Honiara,

BSIP, for geological discussions and to get some idea of the prospecting potential of the Protectorate. * * * Shortage of rain in February caused concern on Ocean Island, and all visitors were prohibited. * * * A 100 ft. steel and concrete bridge of two spans which was built by the Australian Army, at a cost of £40,000, was officially opened by the Minister for Territories, Mr. Paul Hasluck, at Boram near Wewak on February 10. * * * A 20-year-old Papuan is to become Papua-New Guinea’s first law student.

He is Joseph Aoae, of the Public Solicitor’s Office in Port Moresby and he will do a four to six year course at the Queensland University in Bris bane. * * * A shipment of 70 treadle sewing machines up to 100 years old left Sydney on the cargo ship Milos in February for delivery to native villages in New Guinea where the women will be taught to use them as

part of a programme to “develop their domesticity”. Members of the Inner Wheel Women’s Club in New South Wales took four months to collect the machines. * * « A Dutch Army communique said in early February that unidentified aircraft had been active north-west of Dutch New Guinea. * * * An Indian from Fiji, Satyanand Goundar, topped the class of 36 new dentists in final-year results an nounced by the University of Queens land in early February. Goundar led the results in each of the four years of the course. Another South Pacific student, Sione Kilisimasi, a relative of Queen Salote, of Tonga, is the first Tongan to qualify as a dentist at the

University.

$ 4: Assistant Medical Officer Philip Ho, and Maxime Carlot, a teacher at the French Public School at Erakor, have been chosen to be the two New Hebridean delegates to attend the South Pacific Conference at Pago Pago in July. * * * Yahuwi volcano, Tanna, New Hebrides, which has been quiet for about a year, in February entered a more active phase. Fifteen small vents were reported to be in eruption, and small quantities of lava and ash were being thrown out. * * * During a three day tour of Abe mama, GEIC, the Acting Resident Commissioner Mr. R. Davies, in spected possible sites for a proposed coconut experimental scheme. * * * Mr. R. A. Smithers, QC, of Mel bourne was appointed in February, as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Papua-New Guinea. He has been a Melbourne barrister since 1929 and served in New Guinea during the war. * * * Mr. R. G. Thorby retired recently from the post of Resident Agent on Aitutaki, Cook Islands, after service there and on Atiu since 1950.