People

• Mr. Lou Linke, a career officer in the US State Department’s Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, has been ap pointed US Consul in Suva. He will replace Mr. George Gray, who has been in Suva since December, 1961.

Mr. Linke, who is married with three children, will take up his post in mid- August. His last job was as a desk officer in Washington for ECAFE.

He previously served at several con sular posts in the Far East. • Dr. J. V. de Bruijn, head of the South Pacific Commission’s Urbanisa tion Research and Information Centre in Noumea for the past three years, will take up a new appointment in Holland soon at the Royal Institute of the Tropics. He will become director of the institute’s training courses, lectures and research. Dr. de Bruijn, who was born in Java 52 years ago, began his career in the Pacific in 1939 as a district officer in Dutch New Guinea. He worked be hind the enemy lines during the war, and earned the name “Jungle Pimper nel”, which was later the title of a biography about him. • Mr. John H. Millett, formerly of Fiji and now a, resident of Kogarah, Sydney, is taking a prominent part in the public movement in Australia directed at improving the citizenship status of the Australian aborigines.

He is an active member of the Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs, and assisted materially in the organisa tion of a well-publicised function in Sydney on July 10, when 12 attractive aboriginal debutantes were formally presented to NSW Ministers. Mr.

Millett, who appears to have been a liberal donor to the association, was a member of the official party. The girls made a charming picture, and the function, he says, was a distinct step forward “in preparing young native women in gaining social ac ceptance in Australia”. • Well-known Rabaul business man Mr. Chin H. Meen has moved to Port Moresby recently to open a branch of his photographic business.

Mr. Chin, who was born in Rabaul, is one of a number of Chinese who have moved to Port Moresby from Rabaul in the past 12 months. AH are naturalised Australian citizens. • Mr. H. L. R. (Horde) Niall, Speaker of P-NG’s House of

Assembly and a former Distr Commissioner in the Morobe E trict, will be married in September Miss Fane De Silas, matron at New South Wales hospital. 1 wedding will take place in eitl Sydney or Canberra. It will be 1\ Niall’s second marriage—his first w died about a year ago. Miss Silas served during the war as Army nursing sister at Lae, J Niall’s present home. • Pastor and Mrs. Fred P. Wa for many years Seventh-day Adv tist missionaries on Pitcairn and n in retirement in Sydney, celebra their golden wedding anniversary cently with a small family dim Many good wishes came from 1 cairn. • San Francisco journalist Ra Craib, a frequent visitor to the So Seas since the war, has been pointed Government Informat Officer for American Samoa, arrived in Pago in July, followed his wife, Karola, who is also journalist and will work with h and their small daughter Lisa. • Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mason, Inus Plantation, Bougainville, were Sydney in July at the end of a weeks’ holiday tour of Africa : Europe. • Islands old-hand D. S. Ask who has spent 38 years in the b Hebrides, New Caledonia and b Guinea—the last long stint being Samarai, Papua—was also in Syd for a rare holiday in July. But cut his holiday short and went ho complaining bitterly about the o • Dr. Peter Lawrence has b appointed Professor of Anthropol at Queensland University and take up his appointment in Janu He is currently doing field work the Ramu Valley area of b Guinea. • Mrs. David Lambert, of Gore P-NG, gave birth to triplets on ‘ B—a boy and two girls. Mr.

Mrs. Lambert, who had been exp ing twins, have been living in Territory for five years. She formerly a nurse with the Syd Sanitarium and Hospital. Earlier year triplets were born to the Li family of Misima, Papua. • A research student from Australian National University, C berra, Mrs. E. Schineberg, has If visiting the New Hebrides collec; material for a book on the e; sandalwood trade.