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• Professor John William Williams, M, Comm. (NZ), Ph.D. (London) has accepted the Foundation Chair of Economics at the new University of Papua-New Guinea.
Professor Williams was Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Uni versity of Ghana from 1949 to 1951, Professor of Economics at the Uni versity of Ghana from 1951 to 1961 and Professor of Economics at the University of Otago, New Zealand, since 1961.
During his period in Ghana he travelled widely in tropical Africa. He was a founder director of the Com mercial Bank of Ghana and advised the Government on matters of major economic policy. • Dr. Kenneth W. Jones, 40, from Portland, Oregon, has arrived in Pago Pago, American Samoa, to take up the position of Public Health Officer in the Hospital of American Samoa. He replaces Dr. Manly B.
Donaldson, who has left American Samoa. Dr, Jones is accompanied by his wife and three children. • Mr. D. Koludrovic, ECAFE regional adviser on shipping and rates for ocean-going freight, spent a month in Western Samoa recently, discussing the problems of shipping freight rates with various officials.
The visit results from a meeting of the Pacific Islands Producers’ Asso ciation in Apia, late last year, when the members (Fiji, Tonga, Cook Islands and Western Samoa) asked ECAFE for the help of an official adviser on freight rates. • Dr. Roger Keesing was in Honiara in July to arrange for the arrival at the end of the month of a team of 12 doctors and anthropo logists. Dr. Keesing is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the university of California, The team is investigating possibilities of a research programme which might last eight or 10 years . • Two well-known members of the Sacred Heart Mission in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Rev. Fr.
Claret, formerly stationed at Nikunau, and Rev. Fr. Durrheimer, of Tea oraereke, were to leave the colony in July for leave in Europe.
• Mr. Henry Faati Naisali, accountant in the GEIC Treasury, was to leave Tarawa in mid-July for the United Kingdom, where he is to attend a special income tax course.
The trip is sponsored by the British Ministry of Overseas Development.
Mr. Naisali is a Deacon of the LMS Church, Bairiki, and a former mem ber of the Executive and Advisory Councils. He is expected to be away for about six months. • Dr. Philip M. Green has been awarded the S. W. Gayfer Bequest Prize for 1965 by the Pharmaceutical Society of NSW in recognition of a survey of the WHO anti-yaws cam
paign in the New Hebrides, 1958-61.
This competition was open to pharmacists throughout the Com monwealth for research on a selected aspect of pharmaceutical knowledge.
Dr. Green was born in Suva, where his father was on the staff of the Suva Grammar School and he has spent considerable time in the SW Pacific. He now lives in Blackheath,
Nsw.
• Director of Junior Red Cross in Papua-New Guinea, Mrs. A, O.
Clarke, of Port Moresby, was visit ing Sydney in July on Red Cross affairs. She expects to make a second visit in October.
• Popular residents of Bougain ville, New Guinea, Mr. and Mrs.
F. R. McKillop, of Arawa Plantation, were in Sydney in July on the first stage of a six months overseas tour which will take them to Europe. • Miss Agnes Bucknell, who has been receptionist at The Fiji Times office, Suva, since 1956, was married on July 9 to Mr. Don Mitchell, a senior Fiji Times linotype operator.
Miss Bucknell, always courteous and smiling, is very well known in Fiji’s business community and the young couple received the good wishes of many of Fiji’s leading residents of all races. • Big Mick Foley, one of P-NG’s best-known and widely experienced field officers, in July took up his new post as District Commissioner of the newly formed Chimbu District of the Highlands, with headquarters at Kundiawa. For several years he has been Assistant District Com misioner in Mt. Hagen in the Western Highlands. • Dr. Leonard Goodman, formerly surgeon specialist in Apia, Western Samoa, passed through Sydney in late July on family business. He is shortly flying to Suva, to take up a new appointment with the Medical Department, Fiji. • Malcolm Wright’s new book The Gentle Savage, is now expected to be out in November instead of October. It is being published by Lansdowne, and Wright reports from South Caulfield, Melbourne, where he now lives, that the book aims to tell of the “average patrol officer” of a generation ago. Among other things it gives an account of George Greathead’s penetration of the Rai Coast in 1936, the long job of patrol officers in the upper Mark ham, the story of the Mokolkols of New Britain, and of their final sub mission to David Fenbury after the war. • Lieutenant lan Duthie, ADC to the Governor of Fiji, Sir Derek Jakeway, has been posted as senior instructor to the School of Armour at Waiouru, New Zealand. His replacement is Second Lieutenant M. R. Farland, an infantry officer who has recently been serving as a troop commander with the New Zealand Special Air Service (an army airborne unit).