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iptain E. V. Ward, of the GEIC lesale Society’s ship Moana Raoi, itly delivered the fourth child to orn aboard the ship in her five ; of service. iptain Ward, otherwise known Delivery” Ward, says all suitable LUtations of the name Moana have now been used in naming hildren, so the Wholesale Society have to buy a new ship. * * * r. Len Kent, well known for f years as manager and secretary tie New Guinea Club, Rabaul, flown to Brisbane in May for alised hospital treatment. He has ot condition that has crippled n was missing, in sick bed, on 22, when Mr. George Kent, vice dent, presented the members of 31ub to the Australian Governor :ral. Lord De LTsie spent a ant evening in the big lounge. ♦ * * ic British Resident Commissioner le New Hebrides, Mr. A. M. ie, returned to Vila in the irosyne on May 11 after a 10-day of the Banks and Torres Groups. * * * >vi Kail, of Karawop Village, Wewak, who won £7,000 last in an Australian lottery, has in d the money in a marketing and ing business at Wewak. * * * Seventh - day Adventist pastor has spent the last four years in has been elected president of the

Coral Sea Union Mission at Lae. He is Pastor O. D. F. McCutcheon, for merly president of the Central Pacific Union Mission in Fiji. Pastor Mc- Cutcheon has replaced Pastor J. Keith who was president of the mission for eight years. * * ♦ Fiji’s Colonial Secretary, Mr. P.

D. Macdonald, left Suva in May for leave in England. He will be away until the first half of September. Mr.

K. R. Bain is acting Colonial Secre tary. He will act in the post until the Financial Secretary, Mr. H. P.

Ritchie, returns from lehve about August 12 and takes over. Mr. Bain will then revert to his substantive post of Assistant Colonial Secretary. * * * Mr. D. E. Barnes, senior dental officer with P-NG’s Department of Health, received his Doctorate in Dental Surgery at the Queensland University in May. The doctorate is one of the highest awards for dentistry, and this was only the third time the Queensland University had awarded it. ♦ * * Australian actor Chips Rafferty ar rived in Port Moresby in May to co star in a television film to be shot in the New Guinea Highlands. ♦ * * Mr, Karl Larrsen, a curator at the Ethnographical Museum in Gothen burg, Sweden, is spending six months in the isolated Fijian village of Rewa sau to study Fijian social history and Fijian arts and crafts. * * * Commander R. Struben, who spent some time in the Solomons before the war, has returned to the Protectorate

[?]UMEA GATHERING. Seen at a cocktail party in Noumea recently after the [?]wing of a documentary, "Noumea to Paris via Moscow, by Air India", are [?]m left: Mr. Pierre Demene, manager of the Voyagence Pentecost Travel Service; [?]. A. F. Pinto, Australasian manager of Air India International; Mrs. Demene; [?]s S. Mohamet, an Air India hostess; Mrs. G. Potter; Mr. Edouard Pentecost [?]prietor of the Voyagence Pentecost Travel Service; and Mr. G. Potter, of [?]ectacles Caledoniens. PIM in April incorrectly reported that Mr. John Rothery was manager of the Pentecost Travel Service.

a five-month visit to write a book the life of Mr. Ernie Palmer of 3. In pre-war days, Commander iben freighted copra from out ions in his boat, Navanora. He is author of Coral and Colour of d, a book about New Guinea and Solomons which was published in 1 and reprinted last year. ♦ * * Ir. P. D. Muller, a 24-year-old it Samoan, became the first loan to graduate in science when •eceived the degree of Bachelor of mce at the Auckland Town Hall A ay.

Ir. Muller began his science rse at Auckland University, sup ted by his parents and money he led by working during the holi s. le had intended to enter a teachers’ ege this year, but the Government Western Samoa offered him the nee of training as a meteorologist New Zealand, eventually to take r as officer in charge at the observ ry in Apia.

Vliss Thea Lake, of Subiaco, ;stern Australia, left Perth re itly for the New Hebrides where : will open a boarding school for Is on Pentecost Island for the urch of Christ Mission. Miss ke is a graduate of the Claremont achers’ College and has done a me science associateship at the rth Technical College. * * * \ Honiara man, Mr. Chan Wing, 5 started a new industry in the lomons—making spare parts for trine engines.

Mr. Chan Wing came to the lomons in 1938 to work for W. R. rpenter & Co. Ltd., and now owns store and garage in Honiara. He s started his new industry in a mdry at the back of his garage.

Mr. Chan Wing decided to set up a manufacturer because parts for

[?] visitors from Suva at a gathering of [?] Polynesian Association of Sydney re [?]tly were Mr. and Mrs. William Picker [?] He is with the Fiji Customs Depart ment

ine engines have always been 1 to get in the Solomons. With assistant from Hong Kong, he is g equipment that is a combina of modern and improvised hods. * * * Ir. J. G. Jones, a research [ogist from Sydney University, is dng a detailed investigation of geology of south-west Santo w Hebrides). He is expected to ain in the area for three to five iths. ♦ * ♦ he Australian Consul in Noumea, v Caledonia, Mr. I. Bowden, paid first visit to the British Solomons May. He visited Auki as; well Honiara.

36-yeai-old Los Angeles house e, Mrs. Betty Miller, became the t woman to fly the Pacific solo May 12 when she touched down Brisbane after a 7,100-mile flight m Oakland, Califoria.

"lying a twin-engine Piper Apache :raft, Mrs. Miller had made stops Honolulu, Canton Island, Nadi I Noumea. She left Oakland on ril 30 and was delayed by rain at nton, Nadi and Noumea. * * * because of pressure of other rk Mr. F. P. Kaad has resigned chairman of the Council of the 4G Amateur Athletic Association. , Reg Johnstone has been elected the position. * * * Vlr. D. S. Askew, of Madang, NG, : recently been a patient at the ncord Repatriation Hospital, Syd r, where he has had a successful oration on his right eye.

Jack Barley, of Vila, who recently [?]t several weeks in Sydney, returned [?]ila on May 27 on the delivery voyage the New Hebrides Government's new [?]ing vessel "Navaka", Mr. Barley will the "Navaka's" skipper. He was in Sydney for the ship's trials.