People in Pictures
pp. 40-42 · Read in the full issue
Pictures
At the Royal Easter Show in Sydney in April were P-NG House of Assembly mem ers Robert Tabua and Zure Zurecnuoc, [?]ointing out some of the details of a andsome Buin basket to a pretty visitor, he two were among 12 members visit ng Australia in April on a familiarisation tour.
Corporal Henry Van Leeuween is a mem ber of the Papua-New Guinea Volunteer Rifles—the Territory's citizen military force.
In private life he is with the P-NG Depart ment of Public Works, based at Kainantu, where he established the first Eastern Highlands malaria control station. Before going to Kainantu he was in Rabaul.
Western Samoa's tennis season got under way in April with an opening day tournament in which 40 players took part-including these. The competition was won by Mrs. M. Williams and R. Coldham. The growing popularity of tennis in Western Sanjoa is hampered by lack of courts. —Photo: Samoana.
This happy picture was taken on the island of Naviti, in the Yasawas Group of Fiji, when Ronald Rose, of Canberra, and his wife Lyndon, were taking photographs for a children's book, "Inoke Sails the South Seas". It is to be published soon.
Left, attractive Pauline Bona, 19, of Samarai, Papua, is an Arts student with the University of Quensland—one of several P-NG stcdents who began classes at the university this year. Pauline was formerly at the Rabaul High School.
Desmond Bundu, 20, of Popon detta (right, top), and Joseph Muriki, 18, of Manam Island, are two of 12 young P-NG men selected in April to train as cadet executives for the big W.
R. Carpenter Group in the Terri tory. The 12 will receive three years' fully-sponsored advanced education. Bundu will be a cadet in mechanical engineer ing, and Muriki has a cadetship in commerce.
Above, in Port Moresby in April were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hargesheimer, being welcomed (centre) by the Bishop of New Guinea, Rt. Rev. David Hand. Mr. Hargesheimer is a former US pilot well-known for his work for the New Britain people.
His wife is making her first trip.—Photo: C. H. Meen.
Below, Dr. Guy Loison, head of the health services for the South Pacific Commission, and Mr. Cedric Gardiner, SPC expert on health statistics, in Wellington, NZ, talk with Mr. Malcolm Wells, president of the Wellington United Nations Association, about the need for training Islands health workers. A training scheme started in Wellington in April.
Married in Surrey, England, Dr. John Atherton, of Surrey, to Dr. Viopapa Annandale, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Annandale, of Apia. Best man was Dr. George A. Schuster, of Apia, matron-of-honour was Mrs. Helen Mihal jevich (nee Macdonald, of Apia) and the bride was given away by Dr. Leonard Goodman, of Apia, in the unavoidable absence of the parents. The couple hope to return to Apia next year.
A pretty picture at Palmerston North, New Zealand, when the Society for International Fellowship staged a garden party for overseas visitors. On the left is Miss Lingi Siosiua, of Niue Island, with Miss Dianne RohlofF.