People

I s Director of Public Works, Mr. John Common, will retire in smber to take a post with ondon building and engineering He has been Director of Public ks since 1956, although he first ; to Fiji in 1947. He is well m throughout the South Pacific, :ially for his work as chairman he organising committee for the South Pacific Games. He is an national boxing referee and ed and refereed at the 1962 imonwealth Games and has been linted a referee for the Olympic les at Tokyo in November.

; have got the death pallor of g ridden cities, but it’s wonder to breathe in the sweet pure air he Pacific after the foul air of isation,” commented lone rafts- William Willis when he arrived ipia, Western Samoa, on May 10, ly to resume his raft journey to tralia (see “Pacific Shipping”), was accompanied by a friend, ner Woehlk, who will help him irepare Age Unlimited. He plans leave Apia in June after the ual three-day Samoa Indepen ze Day celebrations are over. Wil >aid he liked Samoa so much he ht go back with his wife and re- He is 70. ♦ * * gt. Tohovaka, of the Niue Police iartment, retired on May 4 after years’ service. His was the first

[?] Fijian nurse Elenoa Ravai, now [?]ing at the Sydney Sanitarium, Wah [?]ga, had her 21st birthday celebration

[?]tly the symbolic key was presented

[?]er by Pastor A. G. Stewart, who has a friend of four generations of [?]a's family on the maternal side. In [?]ey for the occasion was Elenoa's [?]er, Adi Torika, taking time off from her active life in Suva.

retirement of any Niuean civil ser vant.

Sgt. Tohovaka joined the police force in July, 1929, and was pro moted sergeant in 1945. He was selected to travel to New Zealand to meet Queen Elizabeth II when she toured New Zealand and Australia in 1953 and 1954. In 1961 he was awarded the British Empire Medal. * * * Mr. Barry Philp, who has been associated with several successful en

terprises in Fiji, chiefly hotels, pi to retire and settle in Australia, wife and his two children are now Sydney. Mr. Philp went to Fiji 1951 and established the Dei Hotel, after which he took over Nadi Airport concession—the Mocambo Hotel, opposite the t] terminal building. He ran that hi till the reconstruction of the airp * * * Miss Carol Schultze, 21, is present launched on a two ye working holiday in the UK and Continent while her parents, Mr.

L. (Bob) Schultze and Mrs. Schu] and younger sister hold the fort Mosman, Sydney. Bob Schultze \ a pioneer New Guinea Territorian the best sense—he was born th( His mother was a niece of Qui Emma. He decided he’d had enoi of New Guinea in 1951 when brought his family to live p manently in Sydney although, he t us in May, he still retains a pi of land near Rabaul “for sentimer reasons”. * * * Norfolk Island’s Official Secrete Mr. Gordon Williams, in May i “somewhere in the Australian c back” on a 3,000-mile road joun from Darwin to Sydney with his v Beryl and their three children, eldest nine and the youngest ei months. Mr. Williams had an pointment with the Northern Te tory Administration before be posted to Norfolk recently, and \ making the long car trip to pick family up and take them to their n Norfolk home—which was built convicts. * * * The well-known family of Ce Smith of Nukualofa and Suva, currently widespread. Father Sm is working as an interpreter in 5 Francisco, Anna Joy is in I Angeles, Dennis is studying in loi Carol is in New Zealand, Gailey in Sydney and Gus is driving arou Australia, being last reported Perth.

HOME: Among friends in Cologne, Germany, during a recent trip to his homeland after 66 years is Mr. R. P.

Berking, of Apia.

With him (left) is Mrs. M. Offermanns, daughter of the late

Mr. Schaafhausen,

and Dr. J. Lehmann, formerly of Apia.