People

After less than four years in the Mr. G. T. Roscoe retired on [une 30 as Director of Education, Papua-New Guinea. Minister for Territories Hasluck made the an nouncement and, at the same time, earned Mr. Roscoe’s successor. He is Mr. Leslie Johnson, 46, who has been Deputy Director of the Depart ment since January this year.

Mr. Roscoe succeeded Mr. W. G. troves in September, 1958, at a time when the Minister had expressed a desire to get on with native educa tion more urgently. The matter (ac cording to the UN Trusteeship Mis sion report), is even more urgent pow although the Minister said, on .Mr. Roscoe’s retirement, that there had been significant advances during iiis term of office.

Mr. W. T. G. Morrison has taken over the management of Burns Philp .<& Company Limited’s islands ship ping section following the retirement in March of Mr. John Virtue, who bad been manager since just before World War 11. , Mr, Virtue, probably one of the 'best known figures in the Australian Islands shipping business, had been with Burns Philp for about 57 years and had been in the Islands shipping section since 1922. Now over 75, he is living in retirement at his home in the Sydney suburb of North Turra murra.

Mr. Morrison, like his predecessor,

Mr. G. T. Roscoe.

Tfos a member of the Ist AIF in World War 1, and has been in Burns Philp’s shipping section for 50 years. * * * f Mr. Barry Philp, former Fiji hotel Ltrepreneur, failed in his first at tempt to refloat the Japanese fishing flip, Asahi Maru No. 8, from the (eef off Sigatoka, Fiji, on July 17. ir. Philp acquired the ship some veeks ago for £1,600. (See Shipping fcction this issue.) Two large steel tanks, lashed to the Kern of the ship, failed to give it lufficient buoyancy to float it off.

Wow, Mr. Harry Oakes who is in ■barge of the operation, plans to ilast a channel in the reef from aft .f the ship to the edge of the reef, ’he Tongan Government tug, Hifo- Ua, may be hired for the job. This neans that the actual refloating >peration will have to be delayed till he Hifofua is next in Fiji. The jperation will also have to coincide vith the next spring tide.

Two Hebrideans, AMO Philip 110 Maxim Carlo, went to Pago a go in July as the Condominium’s [legates to the South Pacific Con- ; r ence, but another, Chief Jack of jnalum, went to Paris as the guest f the French Government. He was resent at the 14th of July celebra °ns, which may not have been as 'structive as the deliberations at a B°» but certainly would be more ln - With Chief Jack, also as a Gov- Tnment guest, went Mr. J. M. Leyhe

\ r H. D. Underwood, Chairman and Managing irector of Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., of l*pua (above) has been a frequent visitor 1 Sydney in recent months, attending to a •ulfiplicity of matters arising from the re tjanisation of the Co.'s capital (each £1 I’dinary share has been divided into four y J shares), and the Co.'s take-over of Messrs, glyer Watson (New Guinea) Ltd. An article Nt the take-over, and about the peculiarly P«ed prospects facing investors in Papua and New Guinea, is on page 27.

f Aneityum, a member of the New [Arides Advisory Council. At the m t i m e, the French Resident Com moner in New Hebrides, Monsieur launay, left Vila for France— for Bastille Day but for talks the Metropolitan Government.

r - R. C. Kerkham, secretary of Philp (SS) Co. Ltd., Suva, re ■s with pride an association with

Of Islands interest are these two nursing afters who have both completed their training [?] Australian hospitals. Sister Dianne Barn [?]her, top picture, who was born in Fiji [?] has lived in both the Solomons and New Zealand gained her midwifery certificate at [?] otscray District Hospital in Victoria. During [?] stay in Australia Sister Barnfather be [?] an avoid football fan and was the [?] ting Globe's Miss Football, 1961.

Sister Margaret Woo, lower photo, whose [?] is in Rabaul returned there recently [?] four years general nursing training and [?] year s as a supervising ward sister at [?] Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Sydney. [?] ward sister, Sister Woo supervised the staff [?] 10 nurses and a ward of 32 beds.

toer coast-watcher Mr. Reg Evans, >se scouts rescued President medy after his PTIO9 was cut in Tby a Jap destroyer in the •mons in 1943. In 1939, Mr. >kham, then an inspector, was in Solomons, at Tulagi, for three iths, relieving the BP manager e. Mr. Evans was then a super i;o and radio officer on the BP Mamutu, built at Hongkong. [r. Kerkham said the hero of the medy episode, as shown in PIM the man—although a bit heavier is had known 23 years ago.

Ir. Kerkham recalled also a brief -time association with Lieutenant anel H. G. Wooller, who died at tkland recently. Captain Wooller, long out of Sandhurst, was the New Zealand officer sent to Fiji 1939 to train local troops.

Ithough the jet-age has revolu ised distances in part of the Pacific las some groups almost as Jted as they ever were, and Mr.

Bristow, of the Colonial Service, a sample of it in July. Mr. tow has been District Commis er on Christmas Island, which to rest of the world is a nuclear ng base but to the Gilbert and '6 Islands Colony is just part he Line Islands District. When as decided to transfer Mr. Bristow 1 the Christmas Island post to iwa, less than 2,000 miles away,

[?] Kevin Gosper who has been appointed the [?] manager for the team to participate in [?] British Commonwealth Games in Perth [?] this year. Gosper is a former Australian [?] pian and is currently the manager for the [?] Co. in Rabaul. He recently returned [?] from BSIP where he coached native [?] tes who hope to make the team for the Pacific Games in Suva next year.

iiecome Registrar of Co-operatives e. plans were made to fly him •Suva from Christmas (compara ly easy with all the goings-on :e), and for him then to catch a Ik Line vessel in Suva for Tarawa, •the plane had to turn back to Istmas and when it finally reached fit was found that the ship had urted two days early. Mr. Bristow ;efore had to spend a couple of ks in Suva, then fly to Melbourne, ;oria, to pick up a phosphate ship :h will land him at Ocean Island n where he will proceed by SIC vessel to Tarawa.

r f- s. H. Christian, of the P-NG lie Health Department, completed years of service with the Ad oration last month. Although retirement age Mr. Christian con es to work as an entomologist at (Malaria Control School, Minj, luse he wants to and because he Id be hard to replace. ■ Christian has no formal quali ions in entomology, but scientists rd him as an authority on Terri mosquitoes. orn in 1896, Mr. Christian joined Public Service in July, 1922, and |d as a medical assistant on Mis stations. nee 1945 he has devoted his time energy to Malaria Control. He awarded the MBE in 1958 for services to the Territory.

[?] a lifelong association with plantation

[?] in New Britain Mr. Frederick 0. Werner, "gone finish" to Australia. He first went Rabaul in 1905 when he was 3 years of [?] His parents opened up Guntershohe [?] alion in the Bainings and later Galtum the same area, which he sold in 1961.