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ngs are back to normal in Wes- Samoa reported the Samoa in in March. Samoa’s entire jopulation of 130 prisoners was id an amnesty during Indepen- Week in January, but in i Apia found itself with an -128. There was, happily, not of the old, familiar faces, has been having a petty crime lately—there have been more a dozen cases of purse snatch and around Apia stores.

sparations for the Melbourne nba Festival were disrupted the traditional grass skirts i were to be worn at the Festi eight Fijian girls vanished the girls’ quarters—no doubt by souvenir hunters. It was first time that Fijian dancers attended the celebrations. The : responded to a plea for re ments, but were not able to y enough skirts so PAA and is helped out. ♦ * * '. Philip Temple, a New Zea mountaineer, is reported from mdia to have found on March wreckage of an American war-

[?] Mission native choristers made a gift [?]eir voices when Nurse Ann Coulston arried to Mr. Ronald Wotton at Rabaul [?]al Church. Choir members voluntarily the church to estimate seating require practised studiously for several weeks [?]ally on the night of the wedding sang [?]er of beautifully rehearsed hymns. The rs. Wotton is attached to Rabaul Native Welfare Clinic.

Dakota against the northern of Mt. Nggapulu, the third t peak in NNG. Mr. Temple member of the Harrer expedi fhich recently scaled the Cars >eaks; but he was alone when covered the wreck, could not reach the main part but discovered the remains of I the occupants of the plane Dr identification he took some and a wallet (the contents of revealed that the plane must crashed in 1945). The wreck ; 16,000 ft.

tain L. Gordon Findley, one of nited States Navy’s top Island iment officials, retiring after 21 of active duty in the Pacific, is »me liaison officer for the US ; Islands Trust Territory at after the Trust Territory capi moved to Saipan on July 1. He ;p resent High Commissioner M. ading in his new post. ♦ ♦ ♦ P District Commissioner Eas- Vlr. W. R. M. Low, saw a kaka recently—almost. A kakamora :gendary midget creature of San oval and Guadalcanal, BSIP— e fellow reported to be about ches tall with long black hair, ig upright like a man, leaving ti footprints, and liable to at when in a tight corner.

Low was guided to a small in a slope at Star Harbour, little footprints leading into it. hape of the footprints was not lear but the native guide ex d to Mr. Low that this was a ae empty lair of a kakamora. jgestion that the hole should be out for scientific investigations lot, however, received with en

graduated from the Gatton Agri- College, Queensland, is Bernard Mack, Rabaul, NG.— Photo: C. H. Meen.

im by the locals. Mr. Low re that many local people believe ave seen a kakamora. * * * ting Australia in March, where ye a series of lectures at the de Festival of Arts, was British ist, writer and film maker, Attenborough, well known in >uth Pacific following publica f a book and a series of BBC ms in the last few years. After de he intended to head for >n a short visit.

planned explosion of US r weapons at Christmas Island used by the British) has it a spate of letters from the Islanders to the Cook Islands Wrote A. Moreland: ‘The Government went to great to ensure that their tests took as far away from Britain as le, rather than on any one of ousands of islands surrounding ►ast. Selfish no doubt, but from 3int of view of any Briton a le precaution. Are we to be any ensible and stand by without t while H-bombs are exploded e 350 miles from Penrhyn?” * * * th Pacific territories these last lonths have been selecting the and women they want to rep them at the South Pacific Con e, to be held in luly in Pago American Samoa. Most terri have now made their selection, names to be announced in that of Mrs. Fetaui Mataafa, >f West Samoa’s Prime Minister, > Mataafa; and West Samoan ter of Education, the Hon. Tua a Teo. The Education Minister

in Suva on March 3—Mr. and Mrs. [?]lcher. The bridegroom is with the in Fiji and the bride was formerly Morvick, of Tamavua, Fiji. She is [?]d from the waist down as the result of a fall some years ago.

t as an adviser. The last South Conference was held in I in 1959. ♦ ♦ * oung student from Vancouver to paddle across the Pacific in ik. In a letter asking the Edi ■ the Fiji Royal Gazette to r part of the cost of the trip >te: “It is my greatest wish and 3n to cross the Pacific single l in a kayak from Vancouver iwaii to Fiji. It would only isible to do so if I could ob nough money to pay for my vo semesters at University, to ►r the kayak, the small provi md the flight back from Fiji to aver. I would carry a first-rate i to take pictures of the whole :. These and my log books be at your disposal at the end trip.”

Fiji Public Relations Office lim that no newspaper was to sponsor his project, that the lal was foolhardy, dangerous isolutHv impossible.

v Caledonia had some distin :d French visitors during the i of March. Seven Senators ar saw everything and everyone, eft promising to right all New onia’s wrongs. About the same 23 French businessmen and :n made a short stay, making ct with their local opposite ers through the Chamber of nerce. ey left for New Zealand on h 18 saying that they were impressed with progress on the I”. other visitor of a different sort be arriving in Noumea in mber. He is Jacques Anquetil, us French cyclist and favourite

W. L. (Anne) Mansell, Deputy Akela of Fiji Cubs, receives a "Friendship from Mr. H. Marlow, of the Fiji [?] Bureau. The book, containing pictures in South Australia, has been presented Fiji Cubs by the Marino District Cub of South Australia as a gesture of [?]ip. The Fiji Cubs will send a similar book to South Australia.

his year’s Tour de France. Three cycling stars Stablinski,

yk and Darrigarde—will come

him. It is hoped to attract riders Australia and New Zealand to >ete against them in Noumea. * * * /e are very disappointed with ittitude of the rest of the world, have deserted us,” so said Her- Womsiwor, a leading native an member of the Dutch New ea Council in Port Moresby in ffi, during a private visit to P- But he added that if the Indo ns came to NNG they would ■theless strike “real trouble”, r was a far more difficult try to live in than was Indo . “Only Papuans can live in ie added that guerilla resistance ist Indonesians in NNG would far worse” than the resistance nesians encountered in the Cele- Womsiwor talked with several bers of the P-NG Legislative icil. He said some members d be invited to tour NNG at i expense.

hen Mr. Knox-Mawer was trans d from Aden to the Fiji Magis the ranks of competent literary in the Crown Colony were per bly strengthened. Mr, Knox rer is himself a skilled writer— t of his contributions to Punch been warmly praised; while his has quite a reputation as June t-Mawer, journalist and author, wrote an amusing book on Aden itions, The Sultans Came to which was published last year ohn Murray; and, while in Aden, was an industrious and lively ispondent for a leading London ipaper. Some of her reflections Tien and events caused a slight It is to be hoped that she will waste her talents in Fiji—the i publicity that badgered Colony achieve in London, the better for yone concerned.

[?]d recently in Toorak, Suva —Mr. and Satya Narayan Prasard. The bride was [?]ly Maya Wati. The couple will live in Auckland.