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[ajor G. S. Gate has been ap ted commanding officer of the Battalion, Fiji Infantry Regiment, ;uccession to Lieut.-Col. H. M. [ton, who has been transferred to reserve. Colonel Boulton had i CO since 1959. Major Gate, is to be promoted to lieutenant nel, won the Military Medal with Fijian regiment in the Solomons ng the war, while a platoon 2ant. * * * t, K. Lamacraft in February re -1 as Chief Commissioner of the Scouts Association of P-NG. He to go to Australia to study for igree at Sydney University.
ilien Seeto, 16, of Rabaul High >ol, who in 1962 passed the ensland Junior Examination with highest pass of all P-NG students, attend Newington College, ley, this year. ♦ * * alani Pasefika, widely known in Gilbert and Ellice Islands, where
Rabaul in February was roving New [?] nder Errol (Bill) Allison, who was [?] is way from the UK to Nauru. He [?] already travelled through many [?] tries, mostly by walking or by get [?]lifts. He got from Djakarta to [?]ndia on an Indonesian transport [?] . Allison is the author of "Kiwi at [?] " and he has a brother in Nauru he wants to see.
he has worked for the Administra since 1933, has begun pre-retiren leave at Funafuti. He has been a the Treasury at Tarawa since war, and among other things has b a member of the Copra Board an director of the Wholesale Society. 1942 he was attached to the Naval Intelligence and accompai the American forces from Sar when they occupied Funafuti. * * * A Papuan Medical Officer, gradi of the Central Medical School, Si in February was appointed Aci District Medical Officer for Manus District of New Guinea, is Dr. Kila Wari, who will be sponsible for all health work in district while the District Med Officer, Dr. I. A. Sirko, goes on lej He is the first indigenous person tc promoted to the post.
Dr. Gerald Hoult, a New Zealam who has been medical officer of Methodist Mission in the Solomc with headquarters at Roviana, N Georgia, for the past 14 years, been obliged to withdraw fn mission work because of ill health The Methodist Mission board Auckland has been appealing foi successor among young doctors, may find difficulty in securing; volunteer as dedicated as Dr. Ho has proved to be in the difficult yes of reconstruction following the war Dr. Hoult has degrees in be medicine and dentistry. He qualifi as a dentist before undertakings medical course for the express r
Taking over in P-NG from Cpl. A [?] Brown, who has toured the Territory [?] four years detonating explosives left [?] from the war, is Cpl. Barry Moore, of [?] Australian Army. Cpl. Moore takes [?] this important task for the next two ye [?] He is based at Port Moresby, and [?] tour the Territory regularly.
se of becoming a medical mis mary. In particular Dr. Hoult has en identified with the campaign ainst leprosy in BSI, travelling und his extensive mission area of :ntral Solomons in the doctor’s boat ivided by the NZ Leper’s Trust >ard. During one furlough Dr.
Dult studied at Sydney to obtain a jloma in tropical medicine.
A predecessor of Dr. Hoult’s in !I mission work, Dr. E, G. Sayers, 10 served the Methodist Mission in 2 1930’5, is now Dean of the NZ ;dical school in Dunedin $ * * New Guinea’s present “crash” edu tion campaign could mean the ,tive people would be ready to ok after themselves in 10 years, istor E. L. Martin, a Seventh-day dventist missionary in New Guinea, Id a Melbourne television audience February.
‘fore moving to Port Moresby to take > the position of marine engineer and rveyor with the Administration, Charles nclair, and his wife, are here seen at a farewell party in Rabaul.
Sir Leonard Isitt, chairman of EAL since 1947, will retire from the rline in April. Sir Andrew McKee ill be new chairman, and deputy mirman will be Mr. G. N. Roberts. * * * Mrs. Joan Brierley, well known in ew Guinea as private secretary to le District Commissioner at Rabaul, as recently been visiting Hongkong, ad that area. En route she was lined at Port Moresby by her sister, Irs. Parker, formerly a resident of abaul. * * * The president of the Pacific Islands Dciety, Mr. N. H. Foxcroft, and Irs. Foxcroft, have returned from ieir world wander, and he presided ; the Society’s annual general meet ig in Sydney in February. The Dciety, formed in Sydney prior to forld War 11, is now 25 years old.