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AUSTRALIA’S High Commissior to Malaysia, Mr. T. 1 Critchley, will spend about 10 da in New Guinea from about mi August following a vacation in Ai tralia. Mr. Critchley told the Pn recently that as head of the missi« in Malaysia it was important for hi to have current knowledge of Ax tralian New Guinea. • Pastor Andrew G. Stewart, ; 82-year-old missionary with 40 yez of service in the Pacific, blessed t first Seventh-day Adventist aircn for medical missionary service New Guinea at a service at Sydne; Bankstown Aerodrome on June 11 .
The plane, a Cessna 180, nam “Andrew Stewart” gives recognitr to this missionary who worked in t New Hebrides and New Guinea the turn of the century.
The plane, provided by Adventi: in Australia, New Zealand and t US, carries the licence number V
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• Bishop E. J. Crawford, OP, the Western Solomons, blessed t new brick cathedral of St. Peter Gizo, BSIP, on June 18, in the pi sence of a large crowd, includr many Roman Catholics from oi stations in the area. • The Chief Justice of Papua-Nc Guinea, Sir Alan Mann, left Pc Moresby on July 13 for medical trei ment in Brisbane. Sir Alan became at Tari on July 10 while on circuit. • The newly appointed Vic Apostolic of the Cook Islands, Me Rev. Henry de Cocq, received tl episcopal consecration from tl auxiliary Roman Catholic Bishop Auckland, the Most Rev. R.
Delargey, at St. Joseph’s Scho< Tutakimoa, Rarotonga, on June 28.
Bishop de Cocq was born Holland and after studying in Rom taught at the Balkenburg seminary Holland. He then worked for tv years in England as an adviser ( family missions. • Mr. A. I. N. Deoki, the senii Indian member of the Fiji Legislate Council, left the Colony early in Ju for the United States on a US Sta Department foreign leadership vis: Mr. Deoki also hopes to go to Puer Rico and the West Indies.
• Two medical lecturers from the P-NG Public Health Department will go to Russia this year to study under WHO scholarships. The lecturers chosen are Dr. S. Reid, Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Papuan Medical College, and Dr.
R. Mylius, Lecturer in Public Health at the same college. • Dr. Le Clercq, of the World Health Organisation, arrived in Vila recently to take up the post of technical adviser for the Condo minium campaign against TB, due to begin in August. Dr. Le Clercq ex pects to be in the New Hebrides for two years.
• The Anglican Bishop of New Guinea, the Rt. Rev. David Hand, and three other people escaped injury when a single-engine Cessna in which they were travelling crashed on the Goroka airstrip on July 15. • Sir Robert Foster, the new High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, and Lady Foster, began their first tour of the BSIP on July 6 in the RCS Coral Queen. Their first stop ping places were Kira Kira, Auki, Malu’u and Wagina. They returned to Honiara on July 16.
On July 29, Sir Robert was due in Vila for a week’s visit to the New Hebrides. • Mrs. Lima Kirkland has taken over from Mrs. Mary Pritchard as manageress of Pago Pago’s Rain maker Hotel. • Thirty-five-year-old Chief Kapesu, of the Mortlock Islands, paid his first visit to Port Moresby re cently at the invitation of the Assistant Administrator, Dr. J. T.
Gunther. He saw his first car and had his first ride in an aeroplane.
When he returned home he took with him Australian flags and pictures of the Queen. The people were short of them, and they were very fond of the Queen and of the Australian Government, he said.
• Mr. V. O. Bennett, an English man, has been appointed Adult Education Officer in the P-NG Educa tion Department. He is the first AEO appointed to the department. He will be responsible for developing an adult education programme for natives, with emphasis on teaching English.
SEA TRAVELLERS; Passengers in the Matson liner "Monterey" when she left Sydney for San Francisco in July included these two Islands couples. At top are Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Michel who were on their way to Noumea for a six-week holiday after having spent months in Sydney. Mr.
Michel Is a civil servant in the New Hebrides. Below are Captain and Mrs.
Herbert Kienzle who were on their way to the US for two months' holiday. The Kienzles live at Mamba Rubber Estate, via Port Moresby, and are among the largest rubber planters in P-NG.