People

1 DMINISTRATOR of Norfolk Is land, Major-General R. H.

Wordsworth, will retire in August, )on after he reaches the age of 70. lajor-General Wordsworth took up is post on Norfolk Island in 1962. [e was previously a member of le Australian Senate. Much of his irlier career was spent in the Indian imy. 9fC % 3jC One hundred and fifty white lastic buckets were due to arrive i Honiara in December for the sople of Bellona Island. They are ifts from S. Dyrup and Company, f Denmark, and two Danish Jentists, Mr. Torben Monberg, and T. Samuel Elbert, who spent several lonths on Bellona Island last year udying the people’s language and istoms.

Bellona is a Polynesian “outpost” nong the generally Melanesian lands of the Solomons, The Bellona people have no rniboos for water-carrying, and they ive to carry fresh water from )mmunal tanks which are some stance from their houses.

Mr. Monberg and Dr. Elbert tended the buckets as a practical ay of thanking the people for dping them during their research. * * The Housing Adviser to Britain’s epartment of Technical Co-opera -3n is to visit Fiji early in February, e is Mr. W. M. Woodhouse, who ill discuss standards of design, aterials and layout for housing for w income group workers. * * * The Principal of the Port Moresby eachers’ College, Mr. F. Johnson, is i spend 12 months at Columbia niversity. New York, studying the aching of English as a foreign

language. Mr. Johnson will go to the US with his wife. Mrs. Johnson is the daughter of the Morobe District Commissioner, Mr. H. Niall, and Mrs. Niall. * * * A 22-year-old American girl, work ing for 12 months as a Welfare Officer with P-NG’s Department of Native Affairs, has been posted to the Gulf District of Papua. She is Miss Barbara Belton, of Oregon, whose father was Deputy Chief of Mission, at the American Embassy, Canberra, for three years.

Miss Belton visited Australia last January to see her parents and de cided to learn about Papua and New Guinea by working in the Territory.

So she applied to the Administration for a position. She is a Bachelor of Arts of Columbia University. * * * Mr. Pierre Messmer, the French Minister of the Armed Forces, will visit the atomic testing centre in French Polynesia in January. * * * Mr. and Mrs, Don Over, co-pro ducers of the Puka Puka otea dance, which has been playing to record breaking crowds at the Queen’s Surf Gardens at Honolulu’s Waikiki Beach, are to produce a major Polynesian show for the New York World’s Fair.

Mrs. Over was formerly Elaine Frisbie, sister of Polynesian author and dancer Johnny Frisbie, and a daughter of the late American writer Robert Dean Frisbie.

Mr. and Mrs. Over will visit Tahiti,

Five Of A Kind:

These charming young ladies, photo graphed at a gather ing of the Polynesian Association in Sydney recently, are all from the same small is land, Rotuma. in froni (from left) are Miss B. Gibson, Mrs. J.

Johnson, formerly Foster, and Mrs. E.

Benz, formerly Gib son. Behind are Mrs.

W. Thom formerly Olson (left) and Miss N. Gibson. Tele

photos.

Moorea, Bora Bora, Samoa, New Caledonia and New Zealand in search of talent for their New York show early this year. They will see Johnny in New Zealand. sjs sfc ♦ Papua-New Guinea’s Chief Elec toral Officer, Mr. R. R. Bryant, spent four days in Canbera during the re cent Federal election gathering ideas for this year’s large-scale election in the Territory. Mr. Bryant said on his return to Port Moresby that the Terri tory’s main tally room would adopt similar systems to those used in the main tally room in Canberra.

Mr. C. H. Cheng has been elected chairman of the Honiara Chamber of Commerce. Other office-bearers are: Mr. J. Close, vice-chairman; Messrs.

A. J. Blum, T. Chan. A. Bernhardt.

Graham Morgan, George Yee Fai and W. Quan, committee members. * * * The idea of “getting away from it all” on a small island such as Norfolk apparently has its appeal to quite a few people in Australia.

Anyway, several dozen people applied for the job of Official Secretary to the Norfolk Administration when the job was advertised two or three months ago.

The successful applicant was Mr.

William Lloyd Mortlock, 41, who is expected on Norfolk on January 10.

He is married with three children and was previously with the Aus tralian Postmaster-General’s Depart ment.

Mr. Mortlock will take over from Mr. Jim Donovan, who, after twoi years, will return to Australia withi his wife and young twins, to join the Finance and Economics Division of’ the Department of Territories in i Canberra. * * ♦ Mr. Ray Goriss and his wife and i family have left Port Moresby and! will live permanently in Queensland., Mr. Goriss has been a Port Moresby ’ resident since the war and a well known sportsman in the Territory. ❖ * * Pastor L. H. Barnard, who< supervises 80 Seventh-day Adventist J native missionary teachers on the? fringe of uncontrolled territory in the; New Guinea highlands, will start J doing his rounds by plane when the; Church takes delivery of a Cessna i 180 aircraft early this year. The; plane is the first introduced to New\ Guinea by the Seventh-day \ Adventists, although most other i missions operate them.

Melbourne journalist Raymond mil, author of Retreat from okoda and Old Walhalla, a Portrait a Gold Town, has taken over news editor at the Fiji Broad sting Commission from Derek ound, of New Zealand. Mr. Round is returned to NZ. * * * Two young Sydney men visited ard Howe Island in December to vestigate the possibility of climbing all’s Pyramid, which still has not ;en scaled.

The men are Bryden Allen, pre- Jent of Sydney Rock Climbing Club id David Lambeth, a cameraman ith ABN Channel 2 TV in Sydney

Mrs. L. Johnston, of the Port oresby Golf Club, was the winner the 1963 Lux Pacific Islands Golf

ophy given (annually from last

ar) by J. Kitchen & Sons Pty., Ltd. isults were:— Mrs. L. Johnston, Port Moresby, 45 hits; Mrs. S. Irvine, Ba, Fiji, 43; Miss ana von Reiche, Apia, Western Samoa, ; Mrs. L. Colahan, Rabaul, P-NG, 41; ss L. Vance, Labasa, Fiji, 40; Mrs. J. lillips, Lae, P-NG, 39; Mrs. L. Bossley, utoka, Fiji, 39; Mrs. M. Dell, Suva, Fiji, ; Miss G. Greinke, Madang, P-NG, 36; •s. N. Thomas, Vatukoula, Fiji, 36; •s. N. Primrose, Goroka, P-NG, 36; ■s. C. Revell, Nadi, Fiji, 35; Miss ttlefair, Penang, Fiji, 33; Mrs. E. hnson, Wau, P-NG, 33; Mrs. V. J. sming, Bulolo, P-NG, 33; Mrs. N. ason, Kavieng, P-NG, 18. ♦ * * Mr. Bernard Hebert, Assistant ench Resident Commissioner in e New Hebrides, has been ap iinted Commissioner for France on e South Pacific Commission. He

places Mr. Jacques Bach who, as

icond Commissioner for France,

as based in Noumea for some years.

[?]AURIED IN SYDNEY; Two well-known [?]baul, New Guinea, families have been [?]ited with the wedding in Sydney of [?]. Larry Chin and Miss Debbi Ng. Mr. [?]lin is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Chin H. sen, and his attractive bride is the daughter of Mr. Ng Kai Ho.