People

• When Prince Charles, heir to he British throne, begins school at rimbertop, an extension of Geelong Grammar School, Victoria, in Feb- Tiary, he will have two 15-year-old "ijians as schoolmates. They are fevita Salato, son of Dr. Macu Jalato, Health Education Officer in he Fijian Medical Department; and "ilimone Mate, son of Fiji’s Deputy Commissioner, Lieutenant colonel George Mate. • Mr. Peter Livingston, Liaison )fficer with the United Nations nformation Centre in Port Moresby, ompleted his assignment on January r . Mr. Livingston first went to the territory as a foundation member >f the Papuan Infantry Battalion, md, in 1942, became a foundation nernber of the Department of education. • Mr. Thomas Hill, the American ice-consul in Suva, was to return 0 the United States on January 22 fter three years in the Colony. His uccessor is Mr. Harry L. Coburn, /ho arrived in Fiji with his wife and wo children, on January 1. Mr.

Coburn’s last assignment was as "bird Secretary to the American Embassy in Madrid. • Doctor G. T. Bloomfield, ;cturer in geography at the Univer ity of Auckland, arrived in Fiji, in arly January, for five weeks’ work 1 connection with the 1966 census, lis task was to define the urban reas in Fiji. • Mr. K. J. Garnett, recently ap ointed Director of Agriculture in r iji, is the first local man to hold his office. He was born in Fiji in 922, and graduated from Sydney Jniversity in 1945 as a Bachelor of Veterinary Science. In Fiji’s Depart lent of Agriculture, he has held the osts of Chief Veterinary Officer

(1961); and Deputy Director of Agriculture (1963). He had been Acting Director since last July. • Papua-New Guinea was visited by yet another economist in January —Sir Leslie Melville who made a two-week economic survey of con ditions, particularly investment pos sibilities, for the Australian Minister for Territories. He is a former chair man of the Australian Tariff Board and has, for the last two years, been a Development Adviser with the World Bank in Syria and the Philip pines. He said he would be specific ally looking into the investment possibilities in the Territory. • Fiji students training at the Brisbane radio technicians’ school

have been praised by their tutors, particularly for the academic aspects of their work.

The first five graduates passed out of the school on December 16 and will join the staff at Nadi Airport.

The five are David Hickes, of Siga toka; Laiman Leong, of Suva; Emori Naqova, of Naitasiri; Gabriel Singh, of Suva; and Norman Yee, of Suva. • Two of the best tennis players in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, Wiram Tarawa and Robati Smith, are to receive two months’ special training in New Zealand to prepare them for the South Pacific Games in Noumea in December. • Mr, John Lissington, formerly chief accountant with Morris Hedstrom Ltd. in Apia, arrived in Tonga recently to take up the post of manager of Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

He succeeds Mr. Eric Chi vers, who will go on pre-retirement vacation leave in February. • Mr. W. A. (Bill) McGrath, formerly in the P-NG Lands Depart ment, Port Moresby, left the Ter ritory in January to take up the position of Land Management Officer in the Resources and Development Department, United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. He left Brisbane on January 28 with his wife and two sons for Saipan, Mariana Islands. Saipan is the head quarters of the US Trust Territory. • Goroka, NG, planter Jim Leahy celebrated the end of a three month visit to Australia in January by winning £350 in one of the State lotteries. It was the brighter side of his visit. For six weeks he was in a Sydney hospital, where he underwent an operation, and he found it tough work recuperating. Another New Guinea man down for medical treat-

Apia Wedding

Mr. John Simmons, of Wellington, an employee with Merrit-Tecon-Fletcher on Apia’s harbour contract, was married to a local girl recently. She was formerly Miss Nofo Tauilili, of Malie. Bridesmaids were Miss Ula Collins (left) and the bride’s sister Miss Solo Tauilili.

Best man was Mr. Tom Drabble, and Wendy Windie was flower girl.

Photo: Hans Straube.

ment in January was Harry Jackman, chief of the division of business training and management with the P-NG Trade and Industry Depart ment. He was to go into hospital at Wahroonga, Sydney. • Inspector J. C. Woodmansey, senior inspector with the Royal Papua-New Guinea Constabulary from 1948 to 1958, has been ap pointed Director of Police of Nauru.

He will take over from Inspector lim McConnachie, and will leave for Nauru with his wife and five children in March. In recent years, Inspector Woodmansey has been inspector first :lass and second-in-charge of the Commonwealth Police in New South Wales. He has also served with the Queensland Police. • Mr. and Mrs. G. H. (Bill) Humpreys have retired to Australia ifter spending more than 18 years n Lae, New Guinea. They will settle n Brisbane after six months of travel ound the Commonwealth. For the >ast 16 years Mr. Humphreys was Lief engineer with Mandated Air ines. Before that he was chief mgineer with Guinea Air Traders. • Fiji’s Governor, Sir Derek akeway, was due back in Suva on February 3 after a week or so in Antarctica at the invitation of the Commanding Officer of the United itates Naval Support Force. • Mr. and Mrs. Les McClelland, /ho first went to Bulolo, the New juinea goldfield town, 25 years ago, lave left Bulolo to make their home [i Brisbane. Mr. McClelland worked or Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., and ater Commonwealth New Guinea ’imbers. He served with the NGVR n World War 11. • Miss Lily Ogatina, the first /oman elected to the Legislative Council in the British Solomons, was named to Mr. Aubrey Pozinanski t All Saints Cathedral, Honiara, at Christmas. • Mr. Douglas Channell, man ger for the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Papua-New Guinea for tie past seven years, left Port Moresby /ith his wife early in January for *er t h, Western Australia. Mr.

Channell has been appointed ABC lanager in Western Australia. • Noted American author Ben ucien Burman, and his wife Alice, r ere in Sydney in January, en route ir the Islands on assignment for the '.eader’s Digest. They planned to isit New Guinea, the Solomons, lew Hebrides, Fiji, the Samoas and

Tonga. Mr. Burman is a modern-day Mark Twain. His best-known work is probably Steamboat Round the Bend . Alice Burman illustrates his books. • The Australian Minister to the United Nations, Mr, Dudley McCarthy, was in Sydney at the end of January taking brief leave. He planned to visit Papua-New Guinea before his return to New York. Mr.

McCarthy for several years has ably defended Australian territories against political attacks launched in the Trusteeship Council, and he must be getting tired of the grind by now.

Some time this year it is expected

he will be recalled to Australia for a new appointment. Before being sent to New York by External Affairs Mr. McCarthy was an assistant secretary with the Department of Territories. • Mr. John Milne, Observer-in- Charge at Western Samoa’s Apia Observatory from 1962 to October last year, will arrive in Sydney from Japan aboard the George Anson on February 2. Next day he will take up a SEATO fellowship to study the operation, administration and capabi lities of seismograph stations in the South-West Pacific, Hawaii, Guam, Australia and South-East Asia.