People in Pictures
pp. 44-45 · Read in the full issue
Pictures
Mr. Maurice Scott (above), Suva solicitor and Speaker of the Fiji Legislative Council, was honoured with the first Fiji knighthood for many years in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in June. Sir Maurice is a Knight Bachelor.
At Rarotonga, Cook Islands, on the Queen's Birthday holiday the High Commissioner, Mr. L. Davis, presented honours to five Cook Islanders who had been named in the New Year Honours List. The photo (by Johnson's Studio) shows from the back row, left to right, Mr. Davis, Mr. David Metuarau (BEM), Mr. T. Cameron (BEM), Mrs.
Davis, Mrs. Glassie Strickland (MBE on behalf of her husband, who died in March), Mr. H. J. Morgan (QBE) and Mrs. U. T. Wichman (MBE).
At a recent social evening of the Polynesian Association of Sydney were (top picture), three members of the crew of the "Lakemba", Alefaio Panapa, of the Ellis Islands, and Vaurasi Full man and Mani Kafoa, both of Rotuma, and (left) three pretty visitors from Noumea, Misses Simone Dolbeau, Chantal Burck and Aicha Maccam. —Telephotos.
Warrant Officer Manli Rosi, of New Britain, dishes it out, Army style. He's company sergeant major of the Recruit Company of New Guinea's Pacific Islands Regiment and knows his business. He enlisted in the PIR when it was formed in 1951.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Wendt (above) celebrated their diamond wedding in Suva on June 13.
They have five sons, two daughters, 27 grand children and 26 great-grandchildren.
When Ratu Niko Cuanilawa Komaitai recently retired from the Fiji Government service after many years in the Western division some of the many officers who served with him made him a personal pre sentation of a silver salver. The officers included the Acting Fiji Colonial Secretary, Mr. J. S. Thompson, here seen making the presenta tion to Ratu Niko.— Rob Wright photo.
Mr. and Mrs. Reece Discombe and their four daughters, in Korotogo, Fiji, in June while returning home to Vila, New Hebrides after a long holiday in New Zealand.