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In A Nutshell
>Y 1970, 575 students are expected ) to be attending the University Papua and New Guinea, and 150 ould be attending the Territory’s stitute of Higher Technical lucation.
Australia’s Minister for Territories, r. C. E. Barnes, said this in August len he announced the appointment ; chairmen of the two educational dies.
The chairman of the Interim tuncil of the University is Professor H. Karmel, Ph.D., BA, Principal the University of Adelaide at dford Park and formerly Professor Economics at the University of lelaide from 1950 to 1964.
The chairman of the Council of : Institute of Higher Technical ucation is Sir Herbert Watkin, I, Dip. Ed., Queensland Director neral of Education from 1952 til his retirement at the beginning 1965, and Deputy Chancellor of ; University of Queensland.
STr. Barnes said he hoped it uld be possible for the first dents to enter the University in 36 to take a preliminary year of leral studies, and for degree irses to begin in 1967. 9 The Chief Justice of American noa, Judge Arthur A. Morrow, I retire on October 16 after having ved as the Territory’s Chief Justice 23 years. However, he will con je to serve the Government on a t-time basis. Judge Morrow ched the mandatory Civil Service rement age of 70 in August, 1963, agreed to a request from the US partment of the Interior to stay on serve in the Territorial courts.
Ige Morrow’s successor as Chief tice will be Mr. H. Edward den, a Department of the Interior sal specialist in Indian Affairs.
I The managing director of W. R. •penter and Co. (Fiji) Ltd., Mr.
G. Johnson, entered the Royal rth Shore Hospital, Sydney in gust for a minor, but severe ration. He came through the eal satisfactorily, and planned to irn to Suva early in September. > The Bank Line’s MV Lagen k left Tarawa, GEIC, on August
2 with about 2,450 tons of copra the largest shipment of copra ever made from Tarawa. The shipment was expected to fetch a record high price. • Fiji’s rate of natural increase of population was down to 32.33 per 1,000 last year, according to the annual report of the Colony’s Registrar-General. This figure is lower than that of the previous year, and lower than the average for the past 10 years, which has been 34 per 1,000. The birth rate last year was 37.2 per 1,000. Fiji’s peak birth rate was 41.91 per 1,000 in 1957. • The High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Sir Robert Foster, will formally open a new radio station for the Condominium Posts and Telecommunications Department when he makes an official visit to the New Hebrides in September.
• Polynesian Airlines’ second DC3 touched down at Western Samoa’s Faleolo airport on August 15 after its delivery flight from the United States, It was flown by Polynesian’s chief pilot, Captain G.
Washington, with J. Best as engineer. • Mr. R. Jenkins, a soil surveyor from the British Ministry of Over seas Development, and Mr. M, A.
Foale, from the Department of Agriculture in the Solomons, arrived in Tarawa, GEIC, early in August en route to Christmas Island to make a survey of the island’s agricultural potential. • Mr. Keith Mattingley, formerly features editor of the Melbourne Herald, has been appointed editor-in chief of the South Pacific Post group of papers. The group comprises the South Pacific Post, the New Guinea Times Courier, and Nu Gini Toktok.