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er catching 23 bonito and losing l-lb swordfish in company with fishing enthusiasts Vernon Mac e and Alphonse Philipp, Hono businessman R. Carpenter in said that Samoan deep sea fish as “terrific”. He was impressed 2 abundance of fish, their near o Apia, and the calm sea. Mr. nter was visiting Samoa in con n with a proposed Coca-Cola y for Pago Pago.

;tery surrounded the purchase ilock of land and buildings in by former proprietor of the nbo Hotel at Nadi Airport, Mr.

Philp. Mr. Philp bought the md building belonging to the ablished Whan Construction ,td. (now in liquidation) for 0. •wing Mr. Philp’s close associ with the hotel industry in Fiji any years locals drew an in -2 that Mr. Philp proposed to a hotel on the site, which is :toria Parade, overlooking the

Miss Marina Kwan, of Kavieng, New (P-NG) gets some drum instruction expert, bandleader Frank Hurst, at [?]ane function to launch her as an in the Miss International Quest. The in aid of a proposed University of [?]nd residential college for overseas Australian students. Judging will be Miss Kwan is a kindergarten teacher-trainee in Brisbane.

imar School Hostel lawns and arbour and reef beyond, m after the purchase was an ;ed Mr. Philp went away to alia for a few weeks. On his i he said he had no plans yet tie future of the site. 5*C * * unusual kind of research it has appeared in New Guinea vid Simonett, from Lawrence, is, USA. He is spending several is in the interior; and his pur is the study of landslides. In nost mountainous country, sub lerpetually to volcanic tremors, ides are a common occurrence.

re will be ceremonies in Honiara August to mark the 20th anni y of the landing of US Marines p-held Guadalcanal in August, One of those who will be pre is Mr. Martin Clemins, who to the BSIP as a cadet at the time as the present High Com ner, Sir David Trench, in 1938, vho stayed on to become a vatcher.

Clemins is now living in re nt in Melbourne, but 20 years e watched the Americans land the hills of Guadalcanal and a week later joined them after ;foot walk through Jap-infested y. He then became British n Officer with the First Marine an and in this capacity ran the ‘ Scouts—of whom the now ated Vouza was one. s understood that the United Consul in Fiji will be another in Honiara during the anni y celebrations in August,

Mave, of Emirau Island, New Guinea, [?]od reason to smile. A Seventh-day [?]st pastor, Joseph has been chosen to [?]ny Pastor J. B. Keith, of Lae, to the Council of his church to be held in [?]ancisco this year. Pastor Mave will [?]e West Coast and speak at church and will also attend the Seattle Space Age Fair.

few South Wales man who has the right to be called at least porary Territorian, has been ted a Supreme Court Judge in He is Mr. David M. Selby, vho was an officer of the 1 Battalion AIF at the time Japanese invasion of Rabaul y 1942. With some of his men :aped into New Britain and ally got safely to Port by. A few years ago he wrote roversial book about the after of the invasion of Rabaul Hell and High Fever. Last ie spent six months in Papua- Guinea filling a temporary y as a Justice of the Terri- Supreme Court. * * * r some bad years, tourist in Norfolk Island is at last ; up-and-up. Tourist Bureau lan F, J. Needham reports that has doubled over the last two It would probably continue to ;e so long as accommodation ansport services continued to I, he said.

s quaintest vessel seen in Syd arbour for many a day” was i Sydney newspaper described nese junk, the Golden Lotus, it turned up there en route to Zealand, from Hongkong. But t Chinese junks aren’t particu are in Sydney these days. They p from time to time. This one board it four young New Zea s, Brian Clifford, 23, Graham

Nayau (Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba), the [?]nt chief of the Lau Group, Fiji, has [?]d a gift of tanoa (pictured) to the [?]ommissioner for the Western Pacific [?]vid Trench), whose headquarters are [?]ara, BSIP. The 13 lb tanoa which [?]legs, is made of vesi (a Fiji hardwood), [?]e is being held by Viliame Rokobuli, Postmaster at Suva. The tanoa, which for the drinking of yaqona, was air [?]to Honiara. Viliame comes from Island, an island in the Lau Group [?]s celebrated for its tanoa and canoes.

Photo: S. A. Whippy

d, 20, Max Matthews, 25 and IcKinnon, 23. The Cliffords are i, the other two are dairy far and they had the junk specially for no other reason than they it she would be a good vessel ;se in. Said Brian Clifford, “We her Golden Lotus after a 5 Chinese temptress with a i temper. We thought, ‘Fair i*. After all, most boats are ry, like women, and you never get to know them.” * * * mo, a Tahitian who in Papeete this year joined the crew of nerican luxury cruiser Wander owned by US businessman odore Carl Heintz, has also /inning himself a fair share of publicity in the South Seas. ) is something of a star with itar, and at every port of call v Zealand and Australia he has eted, filmed and photographed, sbane, in more serious vein, odore Heintz had some criti -0 make of American Samoa, Wanderlure called. “America giving these islands the thought ould have,” he said. “Where ide the mistake was in subsi these people. You just can’t American Samoan to work— on’t have to. America should 1 lesson from NZ and what lia is doing in New Guinea.”

i Fletcher Christian, Chief rate of Pitcairn, was in Aus and New Zealand in June, on st leg of a round-the-world y aboard the Royal Interocean Willem Ruys, which started at n in April, and which would rn back on the island in July, lipping line arranged it all, and hristian did more than his share

was a busy day at Sydney at the [?] Pastor and Mrs. F. P. Ward. It [?]istor Ward's 71st birthday, which to coincide with a happy reunion for [?]ds and John Fletcher Christian, Chief te of Pitcairn, who was in Sydney on part of a world tour (see below), stian shared a birthday dinner. Pastor s. Ward were Seventh-day Adventist [?]ries on Pitcairn from 1938-51 and [?]ep in close touch with the island, despite their retirement.

urn by handling his big Press, and film conferences every with a patient, good-nature, doing some happy fooling the occasion demanded. The ;t questions left him unruffled, is this one asked by a Pressman dney: “Is there any animosity on Pitcairn against Captain lied Mr. Christian, great-great grandson of the first mate of ounty : “We never even think him!”

r was a month in which Nauru get more than its share of at -11 in the UN Trusteeship Coun it as a kind of a warm-up the in June published a petition had been sent to the UN ary-General, U Thant, It was ed by a group called “The sed Nauruan Beer Club”, and n by the proposed club’s sec , Mr. G. Star, who said that prohibition against drink on i was “antiquated” and tans wanted restrictions lifted. sjs H* Hs not easy to do an intelligent, ive, full-scale article on any Seas territory and keep on-side iverybody. But one of National • aphic’s assistant editors, John Id, managed it in his May issue result of a long trip to P-NG at the end of last year.

Guinea people voted the article lass. There has been no better --pictorial coverage of P-NG ;—and the shots were also the of writer Scofield, who regards r photography as “a personal nge”. Among the familiar and •-familiar names mentioned in rticle: The Leahys (including Leahy), Brian Hull, Graham , Mr. and Mrs. David Hook, Ellis, J. K. McCarthy, Dr. Roy g, Dr. Andrew Gray and R. G. i.

[?]torian H. W. Evans, now of Turramurra, with his pretty daughter Miss Patty on the day of her recent marriage [?]ey to Mr. Warren E. Milsom. ("PIM", June, p. 42).