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IE Resident Commissioner in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands )ny, Mr. V. J. Andersen, re ;d the highest award in the fic in this year’s Queen’s Birth ' Honours List. He was made a ipanion of the Order of St. lael and St. George (CMG). ir Pacific awards were:
Hern Pacific High Commission
BE —K. W. Trenaman, Chief stry Officer, BSIP; J. B. Twomey, missioner of Lands and Survey, ) BE —Miss E. C. Pyatt, matron odden Memorial Hospital, Aoba, Hebrides; G. S. Nitz, Senior utive Officer, GEIC. iM —Martin Maeheta, chief n, BSIP; Nei Mereta Auatabu, nurse, GEIC.
Fiji
lE —J. M. Hedstrom, chairman iji Broadcasting Commission.
IE (Civil division) —D. J. es, Commissioner of Inland nue.
IE (Military division) —Lieut- :-Colonel G. S. Mate, MC, MM, 2nd Battalion, Fiji Infantry nent.
BE —P. R. Allen, manager of national Aeradio (Fiji) Ltd. and rary manager of Nausori Air- Osea Kaloumaira, senior field r. Department of Agriculture; J. M. L. Lloyd, director of ari Division of British Red ; C. C. Sachs, head attendant, iles Hospital.
M —C. W. Southey, head super of Public Works Department ausori; E. E. M. Bull, senior anic, Post and Telegraphs rtment. ) —B. A. O’Connor, senior lologist, Department of Agri e; H. A. Ragg, Deputy Post r-General.
Papua-New Guinea
E —J. K. McCarthy, Director of ct Administration. —lan McDonald, chairman, . Marketing Board.
E—J. M. Cameron, Director of >; M. J. Healy, former District lissioner, New Ireland.
E (Military division) —Warrant r W. Mills, Royal Australian ry, Port Moresby.
Imperial Services Order was warded to a former well-known Suinea man, Mr. J. A. Collopy,
of Ivanhoe, Victoria. Mr. Collopy retired recently from the Australian Department of Civil Aviation. He played a prominent role in aviation in New Guinea before World War 11. • Mr. Ron Kellner, formerly of the PAA sales staff at Nadi and Suva, and now living in Sydney, be came the father of twins for the second time on June 4. The first pair, daughters, were born on June 2, 1962. The latest pair are boys.
Ron’s wife was formerly Miss Norma Ferrier-Watson, of a well-known Nadi family. • Three members of the Seventh day Adventist Church will leave Suva at the end of July for a six-week tour of Tahiti and other Society Islands, Rarotonga and the two Samoas for conferences with SDA congregations in those islands. The members of the touring party are Pastor R. R. Frame, secretary of
the SDA Church in Australia and the Pacific; Dr. S. Kotz, SDA medical secretary for the same area; and Pastor R. W. Taylor, president of the Central Pacific Union Mission in Suva. • Matron Lucy Hawkes, former matron of hospitals on Niue Island, Norfolk Island and Rarotonga, has retired as matron of a Bush Nursing Centre in McKinlay, Queensland, and has sailed for England. She will settle in Devon, “to grow flowers, and make unhurried excursions to see England quietly”. • Dr. Colin Jack-Hinton, a former district officer in the BSIP and now a research fellow in the Department of Pacific History at the Australian National University, Canberra, was due to leave Canberra for Portugal at the end of June to make a six month study of the Portuguese in South-East Asia in the 16th century.
NEW HEBRIDES WEDDING. Centre of a Happy group of well-wishers after their marriage in Santo on May 29 are Mr. Michael Giles, of BP's, Santo, and the former Miss Freda Jones, daughter of Islands identity Mr. Fred Jones, of Vanikoro.
Many guests flew from Noumea.