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THE New Year Honours list for Australian territories included four honours for Papua-New Guinea and one for Norfolk Island, Mrs.
Kathleen Welsh received the OBE for her work for aged citizens of Norfolk Island. The P-NG awards were: CMG —Dr. John Gunther, OBE, Assistant Administrator since 1957.
MBE —Sister Kathleen Tweedy, of Rabaul; Vin Tobaining, of Rabaul, a former New Guinea delegate to the UN and ex-MLC; Mr. C. Nor moyle, now of Sydney, who retired last year as P-NG Police Com missioner.
Recipients of New Year Honours in Fiji were: CBE —Mr. James Gordon Rodger, Director of Education.
OBE —John Fraser Griffiths, Ac countant-General; and Robert Bruce Ingleton, former Mayor of Lautoka.
MBE —Guru Dayal Sharma, editor of the Hindi newspaper, Shanti Dut; Alexander Muir, manager of a banana export firm; and William Ewart Donnelly, first principal of Ratu Sukuna Memorial School.
BEM Luke Vukivuki, former union secretary and employee of
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Western Pacific High Commission list; OBE The Very Rev. Dennis James Moore, Society of Mary, Vicar Delegate in the Vicariate of the Southern Solomons; and Arthur
Howell Pickwoad, Commissioner of Labour, BSIP.
MBE The Rev, John Veo Bitibule, Methodist Minister, New Georgia, BSIP; Miss Elspeth Edgar, Matron, Paton Memorial Hospital, Vila, New Hebrides; and Temete Tebataio, Assistant Co-operative Societies Officer,, GEIC.
BEM —Buaka Kanoa, Magistrate, Makin, GEIC. • Mr. K. A. Stuart, a Lautoka, Fiji, lawyer, has been appointed Chancellor of the Diocese of Poly nesia. The office had been vacant since the departure of the previous holder, Sir Ragnar Hyne, early in 1958. • Mr. J. R. Rowland, Australian Ambassador - designate to Russia, made a short tour of Papua-New Guinea in January to see something of the Territory before going to Moscow. • A gold medal from the Royal Humane Society of New Zealand was presented in Aitutaki, Cook Islands, on January 18 to Teehu Makimare, an Aitutakian, who was the hero of a 64-day drift from Rakahanga to Erromanga, New Hebrides, in 1963 ( PIM , Nov.. 1963, p. 10). • Mr. Ray Straatman, an ento mologist, and a taxidermist assistant, Mr. Peter Shanahan, are spending three months in Eastern Papua, col lecting insects for the Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Later they will move to the d’Entrecasteaux Islands. • Gilles Artur has been appointed conservateur curator of the Gauguin Museum at Papeari, Tahiti.
The museum, built with the assis tance of the Singer-Polignac Founda tion, is now nearing completion and will be open to the public in the first half of this year, Mr. Artur was born in Brittany but in the last 15 years has been working his way around the Pacific taking an interest in its art and culture. He was a teacher in New Zealand at one stage; has worked in Noumea and in the early 1950’s spent six months with artist Labais, and Freddy Drilhon and his wife, living among the Big Nambas of Malekula, New Hebrides. • Miss Chandra Kuar Mani Ram has been appointed matron at Labasa Hospital, Fiji. She is the first Indian nursing sister to be appointed a matron in the Colony.
• Recent new arrivals on Norfolk Island are Dr. and Mrs. H. G. Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Donald A.
Lawler. Dr. Davis has been ap pointed Government medical officer.
For the last seven years he has been in general practice in Victoria.
Mr. Lawler is the new headmaster of the Norfolk school. He was formerly school counsellor at the Hunter Girl’s High School, NSW. • Chief Justice G. G. Briggs left Honiara, BSIP, in January, for Hong Kong, to take up his new appointment as a Puisne Judge. • Chief Geologist of the BSIP, Mr. J. C. Grover, and Mrs. Grover,
Mr. A. H. Pickwoad, OBE. He retired in December.— Photo: E. P. W. Marriott.
Sister Kathleen Tweedy, MBE. She has been responsible for winning the Tolais over to giving blood donations.
Very Rev. D. J. Moore, OBE. He has been in the Solomons for 28 years.
Photo: E. P. W. Marriott.
are currently on leave and staying in Sydney. • Professor J. W. Davidson, Professor of Pacific History at the Australian National University, was visiting Western Samoa and Fiji in January-February. Professor David son, a former resident of Samoa, takes a close interest in constitutional matters in both Samoa and Fiji. • Dr. Felix Emberson, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Emberson, of Suva, will return to Fiji in March to establish a private practice in Suva. He left Fiji in 1963, after several years with the Medical Department, and opened a practice in East Parramatta, Sydney. He graduated from Sydney University. • During a visit to NZ in January Governor H. Rex Lee, of American Samoa, took time off to make a flying visit with Rear Admiral J. R. Reedy, to NZ and US bases in the Antarctic. Later Governor Lee flew to Washington to attend inaugural ceremonies for President Johnson. • Makea Nui Teremoana Ariki officially opened the new Cook Islands Library in Rarotonga recently.
The marriage of Miss Heather Mary Jones, of Apia, Samoa, is to take place in Neutral Bay, Sydney, on February 6.
Heather is the elder daughter of Captain J. W. Jones (harbourmaster at Apia for many years and, since retirement, a coffee planter in Samoa) and Mrs. Annie Jones, member of an old West Samoan family.
The bridegroom is Mr. E. J. Liebenow, member of a German family now settled in Sydney. The wedding will be attended by the bride's mother, Mrs. Annie Jones, who left Samoa in September on a world tour and is briefly residing in Sydney.