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l retired US Navy man and his v Zealand wife have settled nanently on Norfolk Island as a It of learning from the Pacific nds Year Book that the island : ree of the Anopheles (malaria ying) mosquito. he couple, Mr. and Mrs. Max ;elman, paid a short visit to folk some time ago in search of lace to live after reading about folk’s lack of Anopheles, ressed by what they saw, they : now returned for good. [r. Diegelman, who spent some s in Antarctica with Operation spfreeze”, is a photographer of iderable skill. A recent display is Antarctic studies aroused keen •est. r. Diegelman’s wife, Thelma, is tig up a hair styling business on island which is expected to prove ilar with local belles.

;amships Trading Company, iting in Papua and New Guinea, has an issued capital of over millions, earns over £250,000 per m after providing for the Terri > healthy income tax, and has re s, including unappropriated pro )f about £li millions, e original compounder of this morsel was Captain A. S. Fitch, took his old steamer Queenscliff ig on the coast of Papua about r ears ago, and began planting jr-trees north and east of Port :sby. He retired a few years after d War II and, fit and well, still

[?]g a shot in the arm was no bogey [?]abaul's Tolais recently when they [?]ed, via the radio and Press that it [?]wise to have a smallpox injection, [?]tolais turned up in their thousands [?]Tabaul's clinic. Medical assistants [?]d down long lines of natives apply [?]ypodermics and only the very young [?]orotested at the needle's prick.

wanders around the world, with occa sional spells at home in Sydney. He was followed by Mr. E. V. Crisl who added rich icing to “Cappy’

Fitch’s cake, and also retired ver) comfortably to Australia at the em of 1960.

“Steamies” board had a certal amount of hesitation in selecting I new chairman and managing directJ but eventually the choice fell 01 young H. D. Underwood, who ha been the company’s accountant am secretary for some time. In the pa* year he has handled like a vetera a finance reconstruction, a take-ovf bid and the absorption of another bi company. If shareholders’ commenl at last month’s annual meeting ai any guide, the Underwood photc graph is destined to hang on th board-room wall beside those c Fitch and Crisp.

A descendant of that notable W. liam Beddows, who was born I Levuka over 100 years ago, w married in Sydney on November t She was Miss Margot Bart® daughter of well-known Mr. and Ml W. A. Barton —he was merchandisi manager for Messrs, Morris He strom Ltd., Suva, for many yea?

Margot, who was born in Su|

Ra haul's Little Theatre group recent[?] came out of a three-year retirement stage a new presentation, which was p[?] on for two nights in Rabaul and o[?] night at Kokopo. The show was app[?] priately called "Back on the Boas[?] Again". Its producer was Geoff Absolot[?] Rabaul people are hoping to see mc[?] shows of a similar calibre. The nati[?] "sandwich man" shown here is advert[?] ing the second night of the Rabaul p[?] duction.

rried Mr. Cecil Paterson, an Irish sinessman, and has gone to live in land. jreat-grandfather William Bed vs, while still a young man, be i planting cotton in Fiji in the j ’seventies, but later moved over Taveuni and operated a succession coconut plantations—Mataua, Lau a and Vani Vanu, in North Tave . There have been members of the idows family in Fiji ever since.

fhe transfer back to New Zealand Fiji service chiefs and the names their replacements were announced October. Colonel R. McK erson, who has been commander the Fiji Military Forces for the ; two years, will be replaced by lonel W. R. K. Morrison. These ) will be swapping appointments Colonel Paterson is going to liouru in the middle of the North

[?]cher Christian, 18-year-old great-great [?]at grandson of the leader of the [?]unty" mutiny, left Auckland by TEAL [?]ntly to attend the world premiere of "Mutiny on the Bounty" film in [?]w's State Theatre, New York, on [?]ember 8. The young Christian's trip [?] sponsored by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, [?]ch made the film in Tahiti. Marlon [?]ido, who takes the part of the original [?]cher Christian, met the great-great [?]at grandson in Tahiti and that's how ng Fletcher Christian's trip started. He stay at least a month in the US, at [?]ding various openings of the film [?]ughout the country, making TV ap [?]rances and giving Press and radio [?]rviews. Fletcher Christian now lives [?]Vellington, New Zealand. Photo shows cher checking his plane tickets in Auck [?]nd with TEAL receptionist Janet Ross.

Island to replace Colonel Morrisoi as Camp Commandant there.

Group-Captain J. J. McDowell, of RNZAF Headquarters, Wellington, is to succeed Group-Captain J. D.

Robins as head of the RNZAI station at Laucala Bay. Groun Captain Robins on his return to New Zealand will take over command of the RNZAF station at Wigram, neai Christchurch. He has been in Fij since December, 1960.

A New Guinea motor mechanic Joel Tade, of Rabaul, recently work ing at Sohano, Bougainville, saved two lives in two days. He took pari in a search for a missing man and found him hanging by a rope on a tree. He cut him down and the marj recovered. The next day Tade wa| on the wharf at Sohano, when he dived in to save a schoolboy from drowning.

Rev. J. J. Jesudason, a clergymal of the Church of South India, wJ visiting Papua-New Guinea in N« vember. He visited the grave of I colleague, Rev. Suttya Joseph, whl died in 1955 while working with tli London Missionary Society a Gavuone, Papua. Mr. Jesudason sail the Church of South India took I great interest in mission work in New Guinea and had provided scholar ships to train two Papuans as mi* sionaries.

Rev. Setareki Tuilovoni, the firi Fijian to be installed as chairman d|i the United Synod of the Methodi* Church in Fiji, recently took ove): from an Australian minister, the Rew.

L. D. Fullerton, who had been actinl chairman.

During a recent visit to NZ, Tonga's[?] Premier, Prince Tungi (left), paid a call[?] in Wellington on the NZ Minister o[?] Island Territories, Mr. F. L A. Gotz. One[?] of the objects of his NZ visit was to [?] explore marketing prospects for desiccated[?] coconut being produced at a new factor[?] in Tonga.