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• The list of appointments to the lew University of Papua and New Suinea is growing. Latest announce nents are: Registrar:—Mr. E. G. Kedgley, brmerly Registrar of the University )f New Zealand. Mr. Kedgley has >een secretary of the New Zealand Jniversity Grants Committee.

Professor of Biology:—Dr. K. P.

C.amb, senior lecturer in Biology at he University of Sydney.

Professor of Law:—Mr. P. G. 4ash, Sub-Dean of the Faculty of .aw at Monash University, Mel journe.

Professor of Chemistry.—Dr. D. T.

Drover, a former senior lecturer in ►oil Science at the University of Vestern Australia, and Professor and -lead of the Department of bio hemistry and Soil Science at the Uni rersity of Khartoum.

Professor of Mathematics:—Associ te Professor M. H. McKay, associ te professor in Mathematics at the Jniversity of New South Wales. • Mrs. E, V. Lawson left Honiara n May for an extended holiday broad. She will attend the wedding f her son, William, to Miss Wendy Tews, in California in June. Before eturning to Honiara in October Mrs. .awson will visit Hong Kong, where he will stay with the Governor, Sir )ayid Trench (a former Western 'acific High Commissioner) and Lady Tench. • Mr. John Kaputin, a P-NG louse of Assembly interpreter, dio is married to an Australian girl, > to be the first native of the ter itory to study for a degree in Hawaii.

He has been awarded an East-West Centre scholarship to study for the lachelor of Business Administration egree, at the University of Hawaii, ar four years. The East-West Centre ; operated by the US Government, nd provides scholarships for students rom African, Asian and Pacific ountries. Mr. Kaputin has recently een studying for the Diploma of üblic Administration at the Admin itrative College, Port Moresby. He lans to leave for Hawaii in early une. His wife and family will join im later. • Mr. William Norwood, of lawaii, has been appointed High Commissioner of the United States Tust Territory of the Pacific >lands. He will replace Mr. M. W. roding on July 1. Mr. Coding plans ) drop out of the US Federal service

for the time being. Mr. Norwood was until recently the top adminis trator in the administration of Gov ernor John A. Burns, of Hawaii.

O Mr. Francis Talasasa, former Assistant Secretary for Protectorate Affairs in the BSIP, has been appointed District Officer in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. He is the first Solomon Islander to take up a post overseas. Mr. Talasasa joined the Solomons Government service after nine years education in New Zealand and a year at Cambridge University, UK. • The British Resident Com missioner in the New Hebrides, Mr.

A. M. Wilkie, was admitted to the Central Hospital in Honiara, BSIP, on April 23, suffering from a strained heart. Accompanied by his wife, the French Resident Commissioner, Mr.

J. Mouradian, and Mrs. Mouradian, Mr. Wilkie had been on a five-day visit to Honiara at the invitation of the British High Commissioner, Sir Robert Foster. Mr. Wilkie was ex pected to remain in hospital for a few weeks. In his absence Mr. M. M.

Townsend has been appointed Act ing Resident Commissioner. • Mr. R. N. Hamilton, the Aus tralian Commissioner in Fiji, has been appointed a Commissioner of the South Pacific Commission. He previously held the position of Alternate Commissioner at meetings of the SPC. In this capacity, he at tended the Sixth South Pacific Con ference at Lae, Papua-New Guinea, in July, 1965. Mr. Hamilton replaces Mr. H. M. Loveday, who was re cently appointed Australian Am bassador to Indonesia. • Penisimani Tupouniua, aged 33,

of Nukualofa, Tonga, recently gradu ated from the University of Auck land as a Bachelor of Arts. He is the third Tongan to receive a BA degree at the University of Auckland. • The Rev. Augustine Malefodola, of the Anglican Church in Melanesia, left Honiara on April 30 for the United States to spend a year in the Diocese of Erie as guest curate. • The Bishop of Melanesia, the RL Rev, Alfred Hill, is to retire in June, 1967. He will be 65 in November, The bishop, a master mariner, was the first bishop to be consecrated in the Solomon Islands. • American vice-consul in Suva y Mr. Harry L. Coburn, has been pro moted to the personal rank of consul and will serve as acting consul in Suva during the periodic absences of the consul, Mr. J. Link. • The Rev. Sione Latukesu, Tongan Methodist Minister who is at present working for his Ph.D at the Australian National University, Can berra, and Dr. Ruth Fink, lecturer in Anthropology at Sydney University, will be married at the Wesley College Chapel, Sydney University, on June 4. Mr. Latukesu expects to return to Tonga, with his wife, in 1967, to establish Tongan archives. Dr. Fink is a former lecturer at ASOPA, Syd ney, and her work is well known in the Islands. • French Polynesia’s Territorial Assembly rejected a proposal in May that the exiled Tahitian pol itician, Pouvanaa a Oopa, should be amnestied and that his trial should be reviewed.

Pouvanaa, who was French Poly nesia’s deputy in the French Parlia ment and a member of the Terri torial Assembly, was sentenced in October, 1959, to eight years’ im prisonment and 15 years’ exile for attempted murder, arson, and the illegal possession of arms following the referendum in September, 1958, in which French Polynesians narrowly voted to remain in the French Union.

Before the referendum, Pouvanaa led a campaign for Tahitian independ ence.

Pouvanaa was released from a French prison in late 1962, after serving only three years of his eight year gaol sentence, but he was not allowed to return to Tahiti. • Professor J. W. Davidson, Pro fessor of Pacific History, at the Aus tralian National University, left Can berra in May on a six-month world trip, taking in French Polynesia, Hawaii and the mainland United States and Europe.

Bishop Hill, retiring. See this page.