People

© A new headmaster for the British School in Vila arrived in the New Hebrides in September. He is Mr. L. Trotter, who has been a teacher in New Zealand for 40 years, and was headmaster of a large primary school in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, until his recent retirement. • Mr. C. Sorensen, formerly of Gillespie Bros., Sydney flourmillers, has been appointed manager of the Rabaul branch of the New Guinea Co, Ltd. He was born in Fiji and was a member of the staff of Morris Hedstrom Ltd. from 1926 to 1960, except for two years as manager of the Ba Hotel. He was stationed in several parts of Fiji and in Tonga and Samoa by Morris Hedstrom Ltd. He left Fiji in 1960 to live in Australia. • Mr. H. S. Roberts, Tonga Crown Solicitor, has been appointed puisne judge in the Kingdom. He suc ceeds the late Mr. Justice Hunter (see p. 129). Mr. Roberts will con tinue to carry out the duties of Crown Solicitor till a new appointment is made. • Vai Mikilolo, 25-year-old Tongan housewife, gave birth to triplets on September 6. The triplets, two girls and a boy, were the second set born in Tonga within a week.

The father is Fakama’a Mikilolo, a professional boxer. © Mr. G. Parsonson, Lecturer in History at the University of Otago, New Zealand, left Vila on September 7 to return to New Zealand after ex tensive work in the New Hebrides and the Solomons to gather material for a history of the Pacific Islands. • Australian travel writer, Frank Clune, left Sydney for Pitcairn Island in September on a private visit to gather material for a new book about the island. Mr. Clune was in Norfolk Island earlier this year and plans to produce a book about it for Christmas. • Matthew Koso, of Totoa, Maringhe District, BSIP, has been awarded a Royal Humane Society silver medal and certificate for his courage in attempting to rescue a man attacked by a shark near the Ysabel coast.

Koso pulled the man, Dovi, away

om the shark and then half-pulled id half-carried him 200 yds to the ore, with the 18 ft shark swimming und the two men all the way. ovi, when Koso finally got him hore, was dead from loss of blood. • Mr. Denis Fisk, of the ABC ws service, P-NG, flew from ibaul to Sydney in September to married to Miss Jennifer Proctor, Dover Heights. Mr. Fisk and his ide later returned to Rabaul. • The NSW Director of Educa >n, Dr. H. S. Wyndham, visited pua-New Guinea in September to idy education problems and to see there was any way in which ditional help could be given to Territory. • Mr. Roger Nott, the Admini ator-designate of Norfolk Island, 11 take up his new duties about beginning of November. • The Archbishop of Canterbury, •. Michael Ramsay, will visit Fiji xt March. He will be the guest of 5 Governor, Sir Derek Jakeway, d Lady Jakeway, while he is in va. • President de Gaulle, of France, 11 visit Polynesia next year during visit to Japan. • Mr. Trafford Smith, who re itly became responsible for the cific and Indian Oceans Depart :nt in the Colonial Office, will visit i, the GEIC, the BSIP, the New ibrides, New Guinea, Australia and ;w Zealand early next year. In 39, Mr. Smith was seconded from

the Colonial Office to work as an administrative officer in Fiji for 18 months. • The Rev. A. R. Tippett and Mrs. Tippett arrived in the BSIP in August where Mr. Tippett is under taking research into mission work as part of a project sponsored by the World Council of Churches, working in conjunction with the South Pacific continuation committee.

He was a member of the Methodist Mission in Fiji for several years. • Archdeacon Peter Thompson, of the Melanesian Mission, BSIP.

and Miss Joanna Tolohi, of Sikiana, were married in the All Saints Cathedral, Honiara, on August 8. • Four P-NG senior education officers in training to become super visory teachers, went to Fiji late in August to attend Fiji Education Department seminars, visit schools, and study primary education, teacher training, school management and in service training.

They were Bilalai Paak, of New Britain; Henry To Waingut, of New Britain; Rome Kokiua, Central District; and Gau Henao, Central District.

[?]BAUL WEDDING: Miss Gretel Burke d Mr. Ted Hutchinson, attended by [?]ra Holden and Mervyn King, were re [?]ntly married in St. Francis Xavier [?]urch, Rabaul. Both, are well-known Rabaul identities.