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• Captain G. Douglas, forr Marine Superintendent in the Gi and Ellice Islands Colony, companied by Mrs. Douglas, ar in Honiara in September to as: duty as Superintendent of M in the Protectorate. • Prince Albert, of Liege, an wife Princess Paola arrived in Pa on October 19 for a short hoi Prince Albert is heir to the tl of Belgium and will succeed Baudouin if the king decide abdicate, as has been strc rumoured in Europe recently. • Teehu Makimare, one of three men who drifted in an boat for 64 days last year Rakahanga (Cook Islands) Erromanga (New Hebrides) has awarded the Royal Humane Sc Gold Medal for Leadership.
O An expedition, led by Dr.
Harre, lecturer in social an pology at the University of O will leave Dunedin at the begii of December for Pitcairn Islam • Mr. David Donaldson has appointed Registrar of the P: New Guinea Administrative Co
Taking a four-year course in refrige[?] and air-conditioning engineering Sydney technical college is this Suv[?] Sidney Gibson, who paid a visit t[?] Polynesian Association recently[?] —Telep[?]
Mr. Donaldson, who was formerly with the University of New England, will take up his new position in January. • John Bird, formerly from the village of Fagatogo in American Samoa, became the North American and Hawaiian middleweight boxing champion on September 22. Fighting under the name of Hurricane Kid, he defeated Stan Harrington, the de fending champion, by a TKO in the 7th round of a 10-round bout in Honolulu.
Harrington, veteran of 70 fights, with 13 losses, faced The Kid with five losses or draws in his past 30 bouts. In the first six rounds, Har rington was ahead on points, but The Kid fought on gamely and in the 7th, reopened an old wound above Har rington’s left eye. Blood gushed so freely that the referee stopped the fight, awarding the match to The Kid on a TKO. • The Fiji Broadcasting Commis sion has appointed Mr. G. Matheson Cullen, from Southern Rhodesia, to be its new manager from next February. He will succeed Mr. John Stannage who is retiring in February after eight years as manager of the Commisison.
Mr. Matheson Cullen has had wide broadcasting experience in Palestine, Malaya and Rhodesia. He is at pre sent manager of the television service in Bulawayo. • Captain Tevita Fifita, the Tongan hero of the Minerva Reef epic of a couple of years ago, sailed from Nukualofa for Auckland on October 20 in the yacht Taufale belonging to Mr. Tofa Ramsay, of Nukualofa.
On the way, he planned to call at Minerva Reef where his ship Tuaikaepau was wrecked in July,
1962, thus starting a terrible, three month ordeal for himself and crew.
Captain Fifita intended to visit the graves of two men who died on the reef.
The Taufale will be in Auckland for six months for an overhaul, and will then go on to Sydney, returning to Tonga via Noumea, Suva and Kadavu. At Kadavu, Captain Fifita will thank the people for their as sistance after he and Tevita Nasele, of the Tuaikaepau, reached there on a makeshift outrigger to seek help for the castaways on Minerva Reef.
• Mr. Marcel Duvernois has ar rived in Noumea with his wife to replace Mr. Jean Durand as UTA representative in New Caledonia.
Mr. Duvernois has been chief of the commercial development service of UTA in Paris for the past three years.
During the war, Mr. Duvernois was a lieutenant with the Free French. In 1943 he was captured by the Germans during a mission and imprisoned in the sinister Buchenwald, Dora and Bergen- Belsen concentration camps.
SYDNEY VISITORS: These three girls from Suva paid a visit to the Polynesian Asso ciation during a visit to Sydney recently.
They are, from left. Misses Shirley Hazel man, Beverley Curtiss and Regina Grey. —Telephotos.