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• Capt. G. Douglas, Marine Super itendent in the Gilbert and Ellice lands Colony, has been promoted to jperintendent of Marine in the SIP. He succeeds Captain M. A. ampbell. who began pre-retirement ave in May.

Captain Douglas’ successor in the EIC is Captain G. W. Sharp, trmerly Deputy Superintendent of [arine in the BSIP. He will take fer in September. Meanwhile, Cap in E. V. Ward is acting as the ElC’s Marine Superintendent. • Dr. Ron Crocombe, who has ien in New Guinea for the past iuple of years as a member of an ustralian National University team idying land tenure, left Port oresby with his wife Marjorie in ay to take up a university teaching pointment in Los Angeles for a ar on a Fulbright Scholarship. The ocombes were to travel by ship far as San Francisco, via Hong Dng, Japan and Honolulu.

Dr. Crocombe, who is a graduate Victoria University, Wellington, cently published a thesis on Land mure in the Cook Islands, which is reviewed in PIM last month. He d his wife hope to call at Raro nga in July, 1965, on their way ck to New Guinea, • Mr, Thomas Hill, the American isistant Consul in Fiji, arrived in la towards the end of May on > first visit to the New Hebrides. j later went on to the Solomons d Tahiti.

[?] INDIA: Studying leprosy-surgery in [?]dia at present is Mr. Ken Clezy, for erly resident surgeon specialist at abaul's Nonga Base Hospital, who is [?]en here with his wife at his Rabaul rewell party. Mr. Clezy expects to be [?]ck in P-NG by Christmas —but in the Highlands, not Rabaul.

• Australia’s Minister for Terri tories, Mr. C. E. Barnes, the Federal Minister for Primary Industry, Mr.

C. F. Adermann, and six State Ministers of Agriculture will attend a meeting of the Australian Agri cultural Council in Port Moresby on July 20 and 21. After the meeting, the Ministers will fly to Goroka, Lae and Rabaul to study rural develop ment in the Territory.

O Eric Young, a descendent of Bounty midshipman Edward Young arrived at Pitcairn Island in the Corinthic from New Zealand on April 17 for a visit of two months.

Mr. Young has been living in New Zealand for the past 18 years.

• The leaders of the Fiji Rugby team which will tour Wales and France in September and October are Ratu Edward Cakobau (Govern ment representative), and Messrs. D.

W. Brown (manager) and P. T.

Raddock (coach). Messrs. Brown and Raddock held similar posts with the 1963 Fiji gold medal Rugby team. Mr. Raddock has coached most Fiji teams since 1951. • The Rev. L. D. Fullerton and his family, left Fiji in the Oriana on June 27 for the United States, where Mr. Fullerton will take up a scholarship. Mr. Fullerton has been in Fiji for 22 years and till recently was chairman of the Fiji-Indian

District of the Methodist Church, was closely associated with Ru; in the Colony. ® Two personal items of inte: to residents of Fiji: Miss A] Kennedy has just been married at Matthews Church, Ealing, Lond to Mr. Howard Dudgeon, Katoomba, NSW; and Mr. Kenr Kennedy has announced his engj ment to Miss Lynette Grieve, member of a Mosman, Sydi family. The two young people the children of Mr. and Mrs. F: man Kennedy, of Mosman, Sydi former residents of Fiji; and th fore they are the grandchildren Mr, H. W. Garnett, of Suva. 9 Mr. H. W. Hollis, a £ Guinea coconut plantation mana recently became the first r American to receive the 1 tinguished Service Award of United States Air Force. The aw was made for “unusual hospita and co-operation” to members of Air Force’s Air Weather Serv Mr. Hollis allowed the American! set up a temporary weather stai without payment on his plantation Mussau Island, off New GuineJ • Mr. James Stuart has been po to Papeete as Pan American Airv district traffic and sales manager, director for Tahiti. Mr. Stuart born in Johannesburg, South Afi and is a graduate of McGill I versity, Montreal. ® Mr. James P. Shortall, n officer and well-known Pacific Ish traveller, was in Auckland Sydney in June. He had come fi Far East to take charge of radio on SS Karu, recently sold Union SS Co. Ltd. Captain Bo is taking the Karu to Hong K for delivery to an Asian buyer. • Mr. W. (Ted) Wilkinson, a \ known aero club instructor, Wanganui, New Zealand, left NZ Suva in June to take up an appc ment as captain with Fiji Airways, O Fiji’s Director of Public Wo Mr. John Common, has retired fi the Colonial Service to join the I don staff of the building and gineering firm of Richard Cos Ltd. Mr, Common and his wife h been prominent members of the S Arts Club (he is president this ye and of the Royal Suva Yacht C Mr. Common is also president of Fiji Amateur Boxing Associai after being Chairman for the pr ous two years.