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• Sir Campbell Wylie, who re unify retired from Her Majesty’s Overseas Service, is due to arrive in Nukualofa on March 14 to tackle the iob of consolidating Tonga’s laws.

With the present law book written up >nly to 1947, there will be 19 years )f laws to be included. The job is ex pected to take Sir Campbell at least 12 months. • Dr. Francisco J. Dy has been appointed regional director of the World Health Organisation for the Western Pacific, with headquarters in Suva. Dr. Dy will take up his new lost on July 1. He will succeed Dr. . C. Fang. Dr Dy was born in Tanila, Philippines, in 1912. • After 21 years with the Fiji Police Force, Sub-Inspector Leone Lesi, the man with the “big hair”, has •esigned to take up a film contract !.esi left Fiji early in February for vork in New Zealand, Australia and America. Lesi was the only policeman tllowed to retain the famous Fijian lair style when an order went out o the rest of the force several years igo to have their hair cut. Last year le acted in a television series which in Australian company made in Fiji. • Mr. A. W. Blow, until recently nerchandising manager for Morris iedstrom Ltd. in Suva, has arrived n Rarotonga to become general man iger of the Cook Islands Trading Co.

Ad. • A former Liberal member of Australia’s House of Representatives, At. Malcolm McColm, has taken up esidence in Rabaul, NG, as general nanager of Rabaul Investments. The ompany’s interests include a book hop, shoe store and small plantation, dr. McColm said in February he had >een anxious for some time to live n the Territory. His father, Mr.

V. E. McColm, aged 85, and brother.

At. Don McColm, live in the Sogeri irea, outside Port Moresby. Mr.

Malcolm McColm plans to marry a Brisbane girl in April. • Comings and goings in the Jolomons missions in February in luded Sister Mary Bernadette, SMSM, >f Queensland, who has been teaching or the last two years at Vaimoso, Vestem Samoa, and who has been re issigned to the South Solomons; lister Mary Jovita, SMSM, of Massa ihusetts, USA, who returned to the fetere Leprosarium after completing

a midwifery course at the Mater Hospital, Sydney; and Sister Mary Therese, SMSM, also of Massachusetts, who returned to the States on her first home leave in 35 years.

For 22 years Sister Mary Therese has been at Visale training college.

She says the Solomons are now mov-

ing “very fast, perhaps too fast in some things”. There is a great de mand for education, with most people anxious to learn English. Before the war they didn’t want to learn, she says, “because it was the white man’s language”. • Mr. Richard F. Taitano has resigned as Deputy High Commis sioner of the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands after nearly two years in the post. Mr.

Taitano, a Guamanian, was the first island-born incumbent of the post.

The Assistant Commissioner for Public Affairs, Mr. John E. deYoung, has been named Acting Deputy High Commissioner pending the appoint ment of a new Deputy High Com missioner. • Dr. Yoshio Kondo, a scientist from the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, arrived in Port Moresby in early February, to make a six-month study of land snails in various Territory areas and the Solomon Islands. He is accompanied by a research asso ciate, Mr. George Arnemann, Dr.

Kondo is continuing the work of the late Dr. Montague C. Cook, an American scientist, who started re search into land snail families in the Pacific in 1902. He died in 1942 be fore his work was completed. • Mr. C. A. M. Adelskold, secre tary of W. R. Carpenter Holdings Limited since its formation in 1957, is to retire soon after many years of service with the Carpenter organi sation in New Guinea and Australia.

He will go on pre-retirement leave on July 1. His successor as secretary

TO BE MARRIED: Mr. William Lawson, son of two well-known Honiara residents, Mr.

E. V. Lawson and his wife Gabrielle, will be married in Northminster Presbyterian Church, Salinas, California, to Miss Wendy Gaye Crews on June 11. The couple met at Fresno State College, California, where both are studying. Mr. Lawson, a teacher at Knox Grammar School, Wahroonga, NSW, is on leave of absence to study physical education. His fiancee, a Cali fornian, is doing graduate work for her secondary teacher's credential. The couple will live in Sydney after Mr. Law son has completed his studies.

will be Mr. George Francis Robbins, who, until recently, was divisional sales manager in Brisbane for City Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd.

Fie has also been financial adminis xator of Queensland United Foods Ltd. and secretary of the Hornibrook ?roup of companies. • Mr. Wilhelm F. Breckwoldt, 'ounder of the German firm of Wm.

Breckwoldt and Company, arrived in Jydney from Germany on February *5. He will spend most of March dsiting his company’s agencies in J ort Moresby, Madang, Rabaul, ioniara and Lae. Mr. Breckwoldt’s irm has had South Pacific interests or more than 30 years. • Mr. W. J. H. Pincott arrived n Nukualofa recently to take up he post of Financial Adviser. His iuties will involve superintending the mplementation of the Tonga De elopment Plan. Mr. Pincott’s ap iointment was made by the British Minister of Overseas Development inder the United Kingdom-Tonga technical Assistance Programme. • Seventeen year-old Bob Howlett, /ho spent some of his earlier years t the Suva Grammar School, re ently entered Australia’s Duntroon Military College, Canberra, on a cholarship he won in Sydney in 964. Bob is the son of Bob Howlett, lr., a popular former secretary of the uji Visitors Bureau, who now runs is own public relations business in iydney. Bob, Jr., was born at .autoka. • The long-awaited book on the mergence of the independent State f Western Samoa, by Professor J.

V. Davidson, of the Australian National University, will be pub shed by Oxford University Press y the end of the year. Called amoa mo Samoa, Jim Davidson’s ook discusses Samoan history, poli cal matters before the arrival of tie Europeans, and analyses the love towards independence from le point of view of the Samoans.

Tie author has had access to files n the Mau troubles from both the Western Samoan and New Zealand nds, and his book uses unpublished laterial on this aspect of Samoa’s lodern history.

O Another Canberra author nown in the Islands is Ronald Lose, of the Department of Terri fies, whose new children’s book, noke Sails the South Seas, will be leased soon by William Collins, t has many pictures in colour of le Yasawas, in the Fiji Group, 'here the story was set by Rose

following a visit there a year or two ago. • Dr. C. M. Churchward, a missionary who served in Fiji and Rotuma many years ago, returned to those parts in late January to trans late texts from the Old Testament into Rotuman for the British and Foreign Bible Society. Dr. Church ward, who is 80, will live on Rotuma for about a year. • Washington reports in Feb ruary suggested that Governor H.

Rex Lee, of American Samoa, was in line for a new job as an assistant secretary with the US Department of the Interior. The department is

responsible, among other things, for the administration of American Samoa and the US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. • Passing through Sydney in mid- February was Dr. Jan Saave, senior specialist (malariology) in the Public Health Department of Papua-New Guinea. Dr. Saave was returning from an overseas tour, during which he attended WHO conferences. • Mr. Keith Chambers, Chief Collector of Customs for Papua- New Guinea until his retirement last year, is currently in the market for a permanent house in Sydney, to replace a rented flat he has there.