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rH COMMISSIONER for the Vestern Pacific, Sir David Trench, [oniara with Lady Trench at the of March for leave in the d Kingdom. Mr. M. D. Irving is Acting High Commissioner Sir David Trench returns to the ions in September. * * * , T. Russell has been appointed I Financial Secretary in the during the absence on leave of inancial Secretary, Mr. L. M. s. * * * itala Teo has been posted as :t Commissioner, Ocean Island, I the absence on leave of Mr.

Pearson. Penitala is the first officer to be a District Coro ner. * * * J. S. Aicken, of Papatoetoe, een appointed Chief Medical r, Rarotonga, to replace Dr.

Romans, who died recently. * * * . Father Des Scanlon, SM, left / in the Tulagi in April to take new position as Catholic priest >rfolk Island. * * * engagement of Miss Maureen eldest daughter of Mr. and -■ R. Watt, of Earlwood, Syd ) Mr. Herbert S. Wynne, eldest : Mr. H. S. Wynne, who now in Yarralumla, Canberra, was iced recently. Mr. and Mrs.

Wynne were well known in Papua- New Guinea when the Australian Petroleum Co. was spending millions in drilling for oil in the Territory.

Mr. Wynne retired from the service when the company curtailed opera tions in 1958. * * * Mr. G. S. Kennedy, Accountant- General in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, has accepted the post of Condominium Treasurer, New Hebrides. He will take over from Mr. O. E. Richards, who has been Acting Treasurer. Mr. Kennedy’s post in the GEIC will be occupied by Mr. J. A. Shaw, who moves up from the position of Accountant and Assistant Collector of Customs. Mr.

M. De St. G. Howell, Accountant in the BSIP Treasury, will take over Mr. Shaw’s old job; and Mr. J. R.

Love, the GEIC Treasury’s Assistant Accountant, will move to the BSIP to replace Mr. Howell, j|e * Mr. D. R. Davis will replace Mr.

J. N. Glover as BSIP Attorney- General and Legal Adviser to the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific when Mr. Glover retires on May 5. Mr. Davis was formerly Assistant Attorney-G ene r a 1 and Assistant Legal Adviser. =fs Mr. B. A. O’Connor, senior ento mologist of Fiji’s Department of Agriculture, arrived in Vila in April to spend three weeks investigating

[?]ently appointed manager of the Ba (Fiji) branch of the Bank of New South [?]es is Mr. James Barrie, here photographed in Sydney on the "Mariposa", be departure, with his wife and daughter Lorraine, 16. Lorraine will also work with the bank in Fiji.

means of combating the coconut Axiagastus, which has considei reduced copra production in the Hebrides. ❖ ❖ $ The many Pacific Islands resi< who have sought data at the Mit Library, in Sydney, will learn regret that Miss Ida Leeson, Mit Librarian for many years, is no poor health, and is an inmate ol Cabarisha Private Hospital, at Q crag, North Sydney. Miss Leeson a well known figure in academic literary circles in Sydney for r years and she has given much 1 able help to research workers, es ally writers from overseas. * * * One of the best-known ' timers” of Eastern Papua, Mr. R( Neate, of “Kulumadau”, Woo( Island, is retiring to North Quf land. He has been a resident of Australian Territory for 44 years, not the place it used to be,’ writes, “and it is getting no b very fast—even away out here, beyond the point where the pavei ends. . . The next 10 years are ing to be crucial ones in the P« Islands.” Mr. Neate was a pa of the late Gus Nelsson, in the ago, in mining enterprises in W lark Island and elsewhere. * * * After more than 20 years in New Hebrides, Mr. G. G. (Geot Wilson, Vila’s Burns Philp mam has been transferred to Labasa, and will leave Vila on May 1.

J. Stegler, manager of BP's S branch, will be Mr. Wilson’s

Miss Felicity Rautamara, of Papu now in her third year as a trainee at Sydney's Rachael Forster Hospital completing the "general" course, plans to specialise in obstetrics and to join the staff of NG's Lae Ge Hospital.— Tele-Photos.

r. At Santo, Mr. B. Kidney be promoted to the post of iger. •. Wilson has been a member of Hebrides Advisory Council 1958 and a member of the h Educational Advisory Com e since 1960. He has been an 5 member of the Vila Cricket the Golf Club, and the Ex omen’s Association. * * * e of the best known education rs in P-NG, Mr. Norman Fell, d in April. Mr. Fell was head t of Sogeri High School, about iles from Port Moresby for 14 ♦ * * ny friends and relatives cele -1 the 80th birthday of Mrs. ; Sowani at the home of her iter, Mrs. Douglas, and Captain las at Tarawa, GEIC, on March rs. Sowani is the widow of the AMP Sowani, MBE, one of :arliest assistant medical prac ;rs to qualify from the Central :al School in Fiji. s. Sowani, daughter of a Nor n trader, was born in Nauru ; it was taken over by the rn Powers. She can remember ;nt gun battles between warring ns on that island. * * * . V. D. Stace, who recently leted a three-year appointment he South Pacific Commission as mist and project officer in ; of the SPC’s regional survey :dit and capital formation, is to le agricultural planning econo on the UN’s Food and Agri e Organisation in Rome.

Europe in April to take up a post he International Labour Office in a were Mr. Richard Blandy, Jr., and [?]ide, the former Rosiyn Shepherd, photographed after their marriage L[?]Laide, South Australia. The Blandys well-known New Hebrides family; chard Blandy, Sr., was with the Administration for more than 20 years.