Appointed

New Administrator Of Norfolk Is.

The appointment was a nounced on July 2, of M Roger Nott as Administrator Norfolk Island. Mr. Nott, present Administrator of t Northern Territory, will succe Major-General R. H. Wore worth, who will complete 1 term on Norfolk on August It Announcing Mr. Nott’s appoi ment, the Minister for Tei tories, Mr. C. E. Barnes, said tl Mr. Nott felt “he had made significant contribution to Northe Territory development and, bei aware of the pending retirement General Wordsworth, had asked tl he be considered for the appointmt at Norfolk Island.”

Mr. Nott, who is 56, has be Administrator of the Northern Tei tory for just over three years.

He was previously Minister 1 Agriculture in the New South Wal (Labour) Government.

Mr. Nott was born at Gulgoi NSW, in 1907. After leaving sch( at the age of 15, he worked on ] father’s wheat and sheep farm! property at Dunedoo, where grandfather introduced wheat-growi in 1856.

As a youth he worked as a sheai for several years until he became wheat share farmer and fina acquired his own property at Dui doo.

Mr. Nott was elected to the NS Legislative Assembly for the Liv pool Plains seat in 1941. In 1954, was elected to the State Cabinet Assistant to the Premier.

During 1956 and 1957, he was M ister for Mines and Lands, and November, 1957, he became Minisi for Agriculture.

Mr. Nott was married in 1936 Miss Mary Rope. They have thi sons.

New Council Norfolk island’s Counc decided unanimously on July to take no action at present on t installation of an automatic telepho exchange on the island; and it al turned down two plans to provi the island with better shippii facilities.

One plan envisaged the extensh

the pier at Kingston over the at an estimated cost of 0,000; the other was for the con uction of a harbour east of the ;r at a cost of about £130,000.

With two dissentients, the council cided that neither scheme was )rth the amount of money in- Ived.

The council meeting was the first be held since the elections on ly 1 under the new Council (finance.

Fourteen candidates contested the uncil’s eight seats. Six of those :cted were members of the previous imcil—Messrs. A. S. Bathie, M.

Christian, C. L. Evans, F. J. :edham, S. E. Nobbs and R. ;slake. The other successful can lates were Mr. G. Quintal, who Id office in a previous council, d Mr. R, C. Nobbs, the island’s 'ricultural Officer.

Mr. W. N. S. Newbald, a retiring uncillor who sought re-election, was e of the six defeated. The others re Messrs. W. McCoy (a former uncillor), H. Buffet, A. Edward d T. Lloyd, and Mrs. L. C. Donkin.

Mr. Barnes, who succeeded Mr. ul Hasluck several months ago as istralia’s Minister for Territories, id his first official visit to Norfolk rly in July.

He announced that his policy was accept, as far as possible, the rice of the Council in matters ich did not conflict with the tional policy of Australia.

orfolk Island's Administrator-Designate, Mr. Roger Nott.