Nutshell

In A Nutshell

Classes at the new British Cent Teachers’ Training College at Vi New Hebrides, were expected to 1 gin on March 19. Twenty-fo teacher trainees have taken up re dence. * * * Superintendent P. R. “Paddy” Li kin, formerly of Lae, has been put charge of the police station Rabaul. His popular predecess< Supt. Jack Carroll will in turn ta over the Lae appointment on his i turn from southern leave. * * * A choir of a dozen Papuan bo and girls were scheduled to vis NSW country centres at the end March to give several performanc of Papuan songs and dances. T 1 choir, organised by the Salvatic Army, Port Moresby, is called tl “Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels”. * * * Queen Salote of Tonga celebrati her 62nd birthday quietly at hi Auckland home, Atalanga, on Man 13. She spent the morning openii presents and telegrams, one of whi( was from Queen Elizabeth. Durii the afternoon she attended a sho service in the main hall at Atalani after which Tongan college and ur versity students in Auckland who £ tended the service were treated to banquet. ❖ * * About 4,000 natives attended tl Finschhafen Show at the Dregei hafen Education Centre, P-NG, c March 17 and 18. It was, for th first time, organised and conduct entirely by the native people throui a Show Committee.

It was a great success. ❖ * * A branch of the Apex Club hi been formed in Suva, Fiji, and a ready has a membership of 2 people representing the different rac< in the Suva community. They ha\ not wasted any time and alread have projects on the way. Durin Arbor Day they planted 200 tree along Fletcher Road.

nsieur Cohic, an entomologist Noumea, arrived in Vila, in lary, at the request of the Joint nistration, to advise on ires to control the insect, astus campbelli, which appears causing premature nutfall on ut plantations in the New Heb especially in Nguna, Pele, ’s Point, and the North Efate Similar damage was discovered intations on Santo recently and believed that the exceptionally rainfall during recent months J the pest to increase consider * * * the Gilbert and Ellice Islands ly a new school for the children patriate and local officers was ;d on March 7 in the Bairiki with a roll of thirty. It will nown as the Rurubao School, the local name given to the George the Fifth School when 5 on Bairiki. * * * icn the Bandmaster of the Fiji ; Band, Deputy Superintendent an and Mrs. Duncan visited a recently they took with them, goodwill gesture, a recorded amme by the Fiji Police Band resentation to the Tongan Police * * ♦ ie of a number of bills aimed at val of racial discrimination in laws was introduced in the i Legislative Council in March, bill removes restrictions on Euro > entering native villages at night on the presence at night of e women in European homes. ♦ * * ie transfer of the Indonesian ners held in Netherlands New ica following the sinking of an nesian PT boat in January was dieted on March 11. The ners were transferred to an In sian aircraft at Singapore. * * * r. Ron Crocombe (whose wife Cook Islander), and who has attached to the Australian onal University, Canberra, for i time, has won his Doctorate a thesis on Land Tenure in the k Islands. ♦ ♦ ♦ olourful Apia, West Samoa iden- Mrs. Aggie Grey, was in Sydney Wellington in March visiting her idchildren. She saw her 12th idchild in Sydney and her 13th Vellington.