People

• The P-NG Director of Agri culture, Mr. F. C. Henderson, be came Acting Assistant Administrator (Economic Affairs) on October 25 when the Assistant Administrator, Mr. H. H. Reeve, acting on medical advice, left Port Moresby on sick leave pending his retirement next February. Mr. W. L. Conroy took over Mr. Henderson’s job in an acting capacity.

The P-NG Administrator, Sir Donald Cleland, said he deeply re gretted that Mr. Reeve’s services would no longer be available to the Territory. However, Mr. Reeve would attend the next sitting of the House of Assembly to handle bills he had already introduced.

Mr. Reeve served in the Territory continuously from 1950 when he was appointed Treasurer and Director of Finance. • Mr. Alan Cruikshank, an officer in the P-NG Public Service for the past 10 years, resigned in October to become a Roman Catholic priest. He will go to Rome for four years’ study. Mr. Cruik shank, an accountant, had been principal of the Co-operatives Educa tion Centre in Port Moresby for the past five years. • Mr. Alan M. MacQuarrie, Acting Marianas District Admini strator, has been appointed District Administrator at Truk in the United States Trust Territory. Mr. Mac- Quarrie takes over from Mr. Boyd J. MacKenzie, who has been as signed as the new District Admini strator for Palau. • Mr. Tom Layng, British Co operatives Officer in Vila, recently returned to the New Hebrides from a 10,000-mile trip by Land-Rover which took him from England, across Europe and the Middle East to India.

Mr. Layng reached the Pakistan border into India at the beginning of September, just as Indian troops were launching a major attack on Pakistan. Tension in India at that time had been heightened by reports that Pakistani spies and saboteurs were entering the country, and when Mr. Layng was about 20 miles from Delhi, he was surrounded by an angry mob who took him for a spy, and who threatened violence. After

being detained by police and questioned, he was allowed to tele phone the British High Commissioner in Delhi, who arranged his release after 36 hours. • Goroka, NG, planter Jim Leahy was in Gloucester House, Sydney, in October and early November, re covering from a surgical operation. • Three German scientists will arrive in Port Moresby during December to undertake anthropolo gical and zoological work for the German Research Foundation in the University of Munich. They are Dr.

Thomas G. Schultze-Westrum, of the Umverstity of Munich, his wife Suzanne, and Mr. Wulf Schiefen havel. • A nine years-old Suva school boy, Murray McGusty, son of a senior police superintendent, has walked nearly 400 miles to help children orphaned by a sea disaster.

Murray walked to and from school, a distance of two and a half miles, every school day this year—ls 6 of them. The bus fares he saved amounted to £3/10/- which he has given to the Kadavulevu Dependents’

Fund. The Fund was set up to help provide for the dependents of 90 people who died when the inter island vessel Kadavulevu sank on Easter Sunday last year. • The engagement was announced in Mackay, Queensland, recently of Miss Carol Rosenfeld and Mr. Pat Bibo. Miss Rosenfeld is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neville Rosenfeld, formerly of Lae and now of Mackay. Miss Rosenfeld was one of New Guinea’s leading international rules basketball players; her father was president of the Lae Amateur Basketball Association, and Mr. Bibo was secretary of the association. • Mr. Jack Maloney, for many years the Administration officer in charge of parks and gardens at Lae, recently retired to a property in the Markham Valley, about 40 miles from Lae. Mr. Maloney—has become known over the years as “Canna Jack” because he planted the streets of Lae with the multi-coloured lilies to help make it one of the most attractive of all New Guinea towns.

Mr. Maloney’s other interests have been the breeding of Arab horses, the importing of Red Angus cattle, and a love of blue cattle dogs. • Wing-Commander D. B. Flint off, Commanding Officer of the RNZAF detachment at Laucala Bay,

Fiji, returned to New Zealand earl in October to take command of squadron of Orion aircraft, which ai replacing the Sunderland flying-boat • Superintendent Ist class P. I J. Larkin, of the P-NG Polk Department, has been appointed t the new position of Deputy Con missioner. Mr. Larkin has been member of the Territory Police Fore since 1946. He has served in th Morobe and New Britain District; and has been Superintendent of th New Guinea Mainland Division, th New Guinea Islands Division an the Criminal Investigation Bureau.

The creation of the new post o Deputy Commissioner is in line witl the practice in all Australian States • Mr. Len Staples, a Tasmanian who created quite a bit of interest h Rarotonga when he went to live then a few years ago, was paying a visi to Lord Howe Island with his Poly nesian wife Temuana in October Mr. Staples, who makes wigs fo: window display models, was reportec to be planning to buy a house or Lord Howe and to settle there tc continue in his line of business. • Mr. Simon Siapu, a 44-year-olc Solomon Islander, was recently ap pointed Assistant Superintendent 01 Police in the BSIP. He is the firs Solomon Islander to be appointed tc this rank. His present station is ai Kira Kira where he commands the Eastern Police Division.

Mr. Harold Reeve, P-NG Assistant A ministrator, who is currently on si leave pending retirement. See paragra[?] this page.