People

r r O of the best-known residents of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony left Tarawa for good early in December. Mr. R. Angeloni, the Assistant Resident Commissioner, left for leave in London before settling in Western Australia. Mr. E. H. G.

Blacklock, accountant for the London Missionary Society in the GEIC, left for London to become accountant at LMS headquarters. • Miss Muriel Williams, matron of Suva’s CWM Hospital for the past year, has retired after 17 years with the Fiji Nursing Division. Miss Williams, a New Zealander, planned to visit Hong Kong and England after a rest in New Zealand. 9 Two Regular Army soldiers who played an important part in the recent expansion of the Papua-New Guinea Volunteer Rifles, have been posted to Australia. They are Warrant Officer Ist Class Roy Millen and Staff- Sergeant Herb Jackson, both of whom served in P-NG in World War 11.

WO Millen has been the Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant of the PNGVR for the past 3i years. Staff- Sergeant Jackson has been chief clerk with PNGVR for nearly four years. • Sosiceni Tokainavala Senibula recently became the first Fijian to be commissioned as a lands surveyor. He passed the qualifying examination after a five-year course. In January, he will go to New Zealand for six months’ practical experience with the Lands and Surveys Department. 9 Mr. A. J. M. Young, who has had more than 25 years’ banking ex perience in New South Wales, has taken over from Mr. B. T. Gilmore as manager of the Commonwealth Bank on Norfolk Island, 9 Mr. G. A. E. Longmore, B.Sc., has been appointed headmaster of the new British Secondary School in Vila, New Hebrides, Mr. Longmore has been teaching at the Pangbourne Nautical College, England. He was due in Vila just before Christmas with his wife and seven-year-old daughter. Another master, Mr. J. E.

H. Carter, BA, will arrive in Vila with his wife at the beginning of January. The school is expected to open in April. It will cater initially for 30 children, and will eventually be able to take 150.

• The British Commissioner and Consul in Tonga, Mr. A. C. Reid, paid an official visit to Tahiti in late November following the extension of the jurisdiction of the British Con sulate in Nukualofa to include the territories of French Polynesia. Be fore he left on his trip, Mr. Reid was notified that the French Government had granted him provisional recog nition. • Mr. Barrie Denison Searle arrived in Fiji on December 11 from London to take over from Mr. Kirk land Blair as general manager of the Carreras and Rothmans companies in Fiji. • George Kalkoa, a New Heb ridean for whom a bright future has been predicted, was recently promoted from the Grade B scale to Grade A in the British Service in the New Hebrides. Mr. Kalkoa, now working in Vila, will take up an appointment as Assistant Administrative Officer on the staff of the British District Agent, Central District No. 2, in March. Mr. Kalkoa returned to the New Hebrides last year after a year’s course in public administration in England. • A New Zealand geographer, Murray Chapman, has started a 15month sojourn in remote villages along the Weather Coast of Guadal canal. Mr. Chapman holds an Inter national Development Fellowship from the East-West Centre Institute of Advanced Projects at Honolulu.

He is the first to be awarded this fellowship for research in the Pacific area.

• Mr. R. A. H. Girvan, manager of Morris Hedstrom Ltd., in Western Samoa for the past 6J years, has been transferred to a new post with the Pacific Trading Co. Ltd., of Rabaul. Morris Hedstrom and Pacific Trading are companies in the W. R.

Carpenter group. Mr. Girvan and his family will have a holiday in New Zealand before moving to Rabaul.

Mr. Girvan’s replacement in Apia will be Mr. J. Cheshire, formerly manager of Morris Hedstrom. at Ba, Fiji. Mr. Cheshire has worked in Apia previously—with Burns Philp (SS) Co. Ltd. • Mr. B. Adan, a sanitary engineer from the World Health Organisation, has been in the New Hebrides re cently investigating ways of alleviating the water shortage in various islands.

Mr. Adan was previously in Tonga working on a WHO-supported rural water supply project. 9 The Commonwealth Chief Scout, Sir Charles Maclean, com pleted a seven-week visit to the Pacific in December. He visited the Solomons, New Hebrides, Fiji, Tonga and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, including Ocean Island. • Mr. L. R. Rex, of Niue, was invested with the insignia of a member of the Order of the British Empire in Wellington in mid-December. New Zealand’s Governor-General, Sir Bernard Fergusson, performed the ceremony.

The citation mentioned Mr. Rex’s services at Niue for more than 42 years as a teacher, an official in terpreter, and as community develop-

Golf Contest

Winner

Players from 18 Pacific Islands golf clubs took part in the annual contest late last year for the Lux Pacific Islands Golf Trophy. The contest, which was held in Apia, was won by Mrs. Mona Bailey (pictured), a member of the Apia Golf Club. She is the first member of that club to win the trophy.

Photo: H. Straube.

ment officer, Administrative Depart ment, since 1963.

Mr. Rex is in New Zealand to assist the Head of the Island Terri tories Department, Mr. J. M.

McEwen, to complete a Niuean dictionary. • Western Samoa’s Director of Education for the past 4\ years, Mr.

Cecil Williams, was due to return to New Zealand in early December with his wife. Mr. Williams is retiring after 2 years with the New Zealand Government. His successor is Mr.

T. E. Dorman, who has been As sistant Director of Education in Western Samoa since last March.

Mr. Dorman, who comes from Dunedin, NZ, has had educational posts in New Zealand, Cyprus and Northern Rhodesia. • After many years of hard work, Dr. George B. Milner, a man who can handle Samoan with the aplomb of a talking chief, has produced an entirely new Samoan dictionary. Dr.

Milner is lecturer in Oceanic Languages in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the London University. In 1955, he was com missioned to prepare the dictionary by the Governments of Western Samoa and American Samoa. To do this, he spent nearly two years in the field collecting new materials and acquaint ing himself with Samoan culture at first hand. Dr, Milner’s dictionary is of 500 pages and has been published by Oxford University Press. • Wing-Commander J. D. Espie has been appointed Resident Air Force Officer in Papua-New Guinea, and

will take up his post in Port Moresby early this year. This will be the first time since the end of World War II that there has been a Resident Air Force Officer stationed in the Terri tory, although for some years during the Korean War, and after, there was an Air Force attache stationed in Port Moresby.

Wing-Commander Espie’s duties are to include liaison with local authorities, and control of RAAF units in the Territory. (A detachment of RAAF Caribou aircraft from the 38 Squadron, Richmond, NSW, is to be stationed in the Territory in early 1966).

• Mr. D. Murgessan, Commis sioner for the Government of India in Fiji, has been busy recently set tling into his new post. He arrived in Fiji in mid-November with his wife and two daughters. He succeeds Mr.

K. N. Sharma who left Fiji some months ago. • Chief Petrus Mailo, of Truk, has been appointed Speaker of the General Assembly of the Congress of Micro nesia (United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands). He replaced Mr. Dwight Heine who has become District Administrator, Marshalls Dis trict.

Mr. C. J. Williams.