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I Mr. D. W. Tudor-Pole has n appointed Chief Information icer, British Solomon Islands tectorate. Mr. Tudor-Pole, who 44. was educated at the Slade 00l of Fine Art, University of idon. and at the University of ;noble. He arrived in Honiara on just 27. > Western Samoa’s Acting Public rice Commissioner, Tuf u g a luelu Atoa, has been appointed irman and member of the ter ry’s Public Service Commission replace Vaiao Alailima, whose term has expired. Mr, Atoa 18. > Mr. Marvin J. Senter, who red with the Department of ication in American Samoa for years, left Pago Pago with his j Louisa and their two children August 30 to take up a high x>] teaching job in Hilo, Hawaii.
Marvin started in Pago as a unercial teacher and four years r was High School principal. In 7 he was appointed Director of ication. He held this position il 1963 when he became Educa i Special Assistant. His efforts in Warship work resulted in about Samoans going to US colleges. » Dr. R. de Wilde and Miss M. Pittock, a maternity and child Ith team from the South Pacific nmission and World Health ;anisation, arrived in Honiara in tember for a four-month visit to Protectorate. Their aim is to give ning courses in rural health and ernity work to medical assistants, ses and midwives. i Mr. John Milne, observer in rge of the Apia Observatory, and v Zealand Government representa of the Department of Science and ustrial Research in Western Samoa e 1962, will complete his tour of y in Apia on October 28. His lessor, Philip Muller, has already imed control of the Apia Meteoro cal Office, and will take over the srvatory on Mr. Milne’s departure, will be the first Samoan national be in charge of the Observatory Meteorological Office. Mr. Milne return to his native Tasmania via and New Zealand, and will then for two months’ leave in Japan.
• A New South Wales fingerprint Dert, Mr. Ken Simmonds, arrived Port Moresby recently to establish fingerprint section within the pua-New Guinea Criminal Investi ion Bureau. He has been seconded a year from the Sydney ClB’s ntral Fingerprint Bureau. Mr. nmonds will train European and w Guinean police offcers in finger nt work. • Mr, J. C. Standard, a geologist m the School of Applied Geology, iversity of New South Wales. ;nt three weeks on Norfolk Island August making a geological vey. Rough seas prevented him m visiting the outlying islands ilip and Nepean, so he may re n to Norfolk for a further visit, few years ago Mr. Standard made similar survey on Lord Howe md. The results were published in 53 by the Royal Society of NSW. • New Guinea planter and MHA, ■. lan Downs, in mid-September t Goroka on a five weeks business i holiday trip to Europe and the I. He was accompanied by his : e. • New director of the UN In mation Centre in Port Moresby Mr. Franklin E. Kozik, who took his new job on October 1. He xeeds Mohammed Sidky. Friendly, nnsylvania-born Mr. Kozik is a mer school teacher and freelance irnalist who has been with the UN Tetariat since 1946, and his last lignment was as director of the
UN Information Centre in San Salvador. With him in Port Moresby are his wife and two children, Robert, 12, and Christine, 10. • A team of French Polynesian skindivers, Hoata, Tapu and Arai, won two spearfishing championships in the Pacific in September. On September 3 and 4, representing France, they won the 1965 World Spear Fishing Championship held at Moorea from teams representing Australia, USA, Great Britain, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Italy, New Zealand, Monaco and the Argentine (in that order).
And on September 11, representing
their own territory, they beat seven international teams for the Pacific Cup in New Caledonia. An Aus tralian, Ron Taylor, won the world individual championship at Moorea. • Former Secretary-General of the South Pacific Commission, Mr.
T. R. Smith, was visiting Suva in September, doing some Pacific re search in the Barker Library and Archives. Mr. Smith these days is lecturer in Political Science and Public Administration at Victoria University, NZ, and finds that his students are keenly interested in Pacific history.
[?]ARD FOR SCOUT: Gregory Forgan th, 17-year-old son of Captain and William Forgan-Smith, of Port resby, was recently presented with Queen's Scout Badge by P-NG's Chief ut Commissioner, Mr. Carlaw. Gregory, belongs to the 1st Port Moresby op, is seen here after the ceremony [?]h his mother. Photo: Chin H. Meen.