Personal

A number of former New Guinea iidents were among the many guests the reception following the image in Sydney in August of Miss >reen McGhie to Dr. Geoffrey Fen i. Dr. Fenton for more than three ars was medical officer on the MV ansi, on the Sydney-New Guinea •vice. Miss McGhie for some years is associated with the late Mrs. len Pitt in operating the Hotel Droka, NG, and later was with Kthern Hotels, Fiji. Dr. Fenton ins to open a private practice in dney. * * * Ratu K. K. T. Mara, of Fiji, and 5 charming wife, Adi Lala, returned Fiji in August by the Northern ar, after a year spent in United ingdom. Ratu Mara, who is a aster of Arts, of Oxford, has been tending the London School of :onomics. When they departed om Suva, in 1961, they were accom mied by four children; they have ought back five—Adi Lala gave rth to an addition to the family in ?ndon in April. Ratu Mara, who as prominent in the Fiji Admini ration for years before going abroad i 1961, has been posted to Levuka, i District Commissioner Eastern, he Eastern District includes his jme territory, the Lau archipelago. * * * Bishop Leo Scharmach, of Vuna ope Misison, New Britain, suffered [stroke in Sydney recently after re irning from a visit to Rome, While ill resting in a Sydney hospital the Ishop tendered his resignation as the Scar Apostolic of Rabaul but it has ot yet been officially accepted. [ Sources close to him say that al lough he has made no definite plans 3r the future after he recovers from Is illness they feel that he will make I short visit to Vunapope and then to live in Sydney. * * * [ Mr. J. Preston-White, Administra or of Nauru from 1958 until early his year, has taken up his new ippointment as District Commissioner >f the Milne Bay District, P-NG. lefore his Nauru posting he had >een with the P-NG Department of Native Affairs since 1938. * * * [ Mr. Jock Maclean, a well-known planter who for many years directed kangarere Estates, in the Bainings District of New Guinea, near Rabaul,

retired from active work a couple of years ago, and now is living quietly at 75 Arthur Street, Woody Point, Queensland. Mr. Maclean writes that in looking over his old records, he finds that he has five volumes of Government Gazettes issued during the Australian administration of German New Guinea (presumably after 1914-1921). He is not anxious to part with these docu ments; but if they have any special historical value, persons interested should communicate directly with him. * ♦ ♦ Miss Josephine Moors, of a Western Samoa family, has gradu ated from Mills College, Oakland, California, with a bachelor of arts degree with specialty in history and government. Her father is Captain

H. J. Moors, harbour master at Apia.

Her grandfather is Mr. H. W. Moors, a member of the Legislative Assembly, and her uncle, Mr. Fred Betham, is Western Samoa Minister of Finance. * * * Mr. E. T. J. Mabbs, Deputy Controller of Customs, Mauritius, has been appointed Comptroller of Customs, Fiji. He succeeds Mr.

D. W. Logan, who was due to leave the Colony on retirement on August 28. ♦ * * Mr. F. D. Caterson has resigned as secretary of the P-NG Department of Labour for personal reasons. He arrived in the Territory in April, 1959, as chairman of the Native Employ ment Board, and was appointed De