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Miss Christine Campbell, Norfc Island’s “Jill of All Trades”, will lea the island soon to live in Austral Miss Campbell is a descendant of t Pitcairn and Norfolk Island leadi George Hunn Nobbs. She is the fii woman to hold high posts with t Norfolk Island Administration. Di ing the past four years, she earn out a wide range of duties.

Her titles were Registrar of t Supreme Court, Registrar of Wil Probate and Administration, Registr of the Liquor Licensing Board, Cle of the Court of Petty Sessions, Depu Registrar of Companies, Depu Registrar of Lands, Deputy Registr of Births, Marriages and Death Deputy Master in Lunacy, Registr of Bulls and Registrar of Brands ai Marks.

Miss Campbell was also the A ministration’s Broadcast Officer, pr senting the local and overseas ne\ and weather information five mor ings a week, and for the past thn years she has been Secretary of tl Agricultural and Horticultural Societ Miss Campbell made her farewe broadcast on December 14.

Cigar-smoking Talking Chief Tamotu Mu? tauaopele, of American Samoa, got a I? of publicity in the Sydney Press in Dece? ber when he visited the NSW capital ? a member of the party on Pan American inaugural flight from Pago Pago. Wearin? a tapa cloth lavalava, a whale's teet necklace and a fue (fly whisk) and carry ing a cane wherever he went, he was a inevitable target for newspaper photo graphers.

iSIP Police Constable Kwanimani to be officially commended and warded for his conduct in diving d the Matanikau River in full form on the night of November to arrest a thief who had stolen j cans of beer from the Kwong dw Hotel. fhe thief afterwards told a police cer that the constable had saved life because he was so drunk would have drowned. * * * fhe British Parliamentary Under :retary of State, Mr. Nigel Fisher, 1 visit Fiji, the British Solomon mds and the New Hebrides in tuary with his Private Secretary, • V. C. Edwards, and Mr. J. E. irnham. Head of the Pacific and lian Ocean Department of the lonial Office.

Rev. and Mrs. Wesley Lutton (seated), tabaul, dropped in on former American ?an Fred Hargesheimer at his home at ?te Bear Lake, Minnesota, recently. The ?on's met Fred in 1960 when he re ?ed New Britain where he was shot ?n by the Japanese during the war. ?ing that visit Fred helped to organise Airmen's Nantambu Memorial Founda to provide a school for the children Nantambu as an expression of grati ?e for the help the natives of the region given him and other American airmen ?r they were shot down. Many Ameri ?s contributed to the Foundation fund, the main purpose of the Lutton's visit ?he US was to thank them. They also ?ed Mr. Lutton's sister at St. Catherine, ?ario, whom he had not seen for 35 years.

Herr Bregulla, an ornitholog who was in the New Hebrides b tween 1959 and 1961, has returm to the Group after spending a ye in New Caledonia collecting bin for his Swiss and German sponsoi Herr Bregulla expects to remain the New Hebrides for six mont] to complete his work. He will wo mainly in the northern part of tl Group, collecting species found on in mountainous areas. ❖ * * Two former Fiji identities wl used to work at the Suva Hotel a now working at the same place England—the Bell Hotel, Leiceste They are Malcolm McDouga] former assistant manager of the Sm Hotel, and Stephen Vijay Kumar, ( Nausori, who worked at the Sm Hotel in Mr. McDougall’s time. ❖ * * Among the big list of Islanc visitors invited to Sydney in Decen ber on a Pan American inaugur; jet flight between Pago Pago an Sydney were: from Fiji—Mr Beverley Watson, Mr. Harvey Hun Mr. John Stannage, Mr. Rob Wrigh Mr. Jagendra Singh, Mr. Padd Doyle, Mr. Don Lane, Captain Sta Brown. From American Samoa- Mrs. Mary Pritchard, Mr. Edwar Johnson, Mrs. Walton Tregaski From Western Samoa—Mr. Ala Russell, Mr. R. F. Rankin, Mi: Stella Bryce, Mr. Norman Paul, Mr Sheila Edmonds. * * * The Governor of French Polynesi M. Aime Grimald, left Papeete f< Paris by air on December 14. He a tended a conference of French go 1 ernors called by the French Minish of State for French departments an territories overseas. * * * Mr. Andrew Young has resigne from the post of secretary of the Pii cairn Island Council and will go t New Zealand to live. Mr. Young hi been secretary since before the wa and his sound approach to problem has done a great deal for the islan* New secretary is the assistant pos master, Mr. Ben Christian. Mi Warren Christian becomes assistai postmaster. * * * The French Resident Con missioner in the New Hebride Delauney has left Vila with Mmi Delauney three months’ leave France. During his absence, tH Chancellor, M. Hebert will be i charge of French Residency Affain