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• Papua-New Guinea’s Admini strator-Designate, Mr. D. O. Hay, will take up his appointment in Port Moresby on January 8 next year.
The present Administrator, Sir Donald Cleland, and Lady Cleland have begun a series of farewell tours to each territory district. Between October 31 and November 12 they will visit Popondetta, Mendi, Mount Hagen, Wewak, Vanimo, Madang, Kundiawa and Goroka. • A Pago Pago merchant, Mr.
Herbert J. Scanlan, recently com pleted a five-year correspondence course in law with the Blackstone School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, and has now received a bachelor of laws degree from the school. Mr. Scanlan is brother of the late Eric Scanlan, a former Secretary of American Samoa, who was drowned several years ago. • Mr. Fred Warner, Registrar of Co-operative Societies in Fiji for the past nine years, was due to leave Fiji on pre-retirement leave in late October. Mr. Warner, who is 60, went to Fiji 34 years ago to go into private business. He joined the Civil Service in 1944, and became Assistant Registrar of Co-operatives in 1951. He was made Registrar three years later.
Mr. Warner will take up a post with the South Pacific Anglican Council in Fiji under the Bishop in Polynesia on his return from leave in New Zealand. • Outstanding progress in the campaign to wipe out New Guinea’s number one health hazard—malaria —has been reported in Rabaul by the senior Administration malariologist, Dr. W. Saave.
He said recently that the malaria eradication programme introduced in a test at Cape Gloucester on the west coast of New Britain four years ago, had been highly successful.
Before the test 35 per cent, of the people in the area had been seriously affected by malaria. The incidence was now reduced to three per cent.
New drugs which had been used during the past 12 months were largely responsible for the progress.
Dr. Saave said only a few young children now suffered enlarged spleens and considerable general health improvement had been effected for people in the area.
• The Rev. Dr. Charles Fox, who first went to the Solomons in 1908, recently completed a history of the Solomon Islands for use in BSIP schools. Dr. Fox, now 88, is the author of several other books, in cluding Threshold of the Pacific (1924) and Kakamora (1962). He remained in the Solomons throughout the Japanese occupation.
O Major Geoffrey Bovey, Chief Education Officer in the BSIP for the past 10 years, left Honiara to return to England in October. Major Bovey, who had been BSIP Chief Commissioner of Scouts since 1958,
was given a farewell campfire in Honiara by members of five local scout groups on October 1. Two days later, Major and Mrs. Bovey were guests of honour at a party given by the entire BSIP Education Department. • The US Consul in Suva. Mr.
Harry L. Cobum, is to visit Honiara from November 11 to 19. • Ramon de Leon Guerrero. 23. of Saipan, has become the first Micronesian to receive a commercial pilot’s licence from the US Federal Aviation Agency. (Over)
• Dr. Allen C. Service has been appointed Director of Medical Services in American Samoa. He succeeds the late Dr. Harold Tucker, who died on July 23. • The High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Sir Robert Foster, and Lady Foster, returned to Honiara from leave in the United Kingdom on October 11. • The Rev. Lopeti Taufa, of the Pacific Theological College in Suva is to edit the Pacific Journal of Theology from the December number onwards.
The Journal is the voice of the Pacific Conference of Churches, and seeks to unite the work of all the Churches in the Pacific area.
The previous editor was the Rev, Clarence E. Norwood, of Apia. • Two American archaeologists, Dr. Richard Shutler and his wife Dr. Elizabeth Shutler, arrived in the New Hebrides in late September to undertake research on Espiritu Santo.
The Shutlers spent several months in the New Hebrides in 1964, working on Aneityum, Tanna, Futuna, Aniwa, Erromanga, and Efate. They found evidence that Tanna was inhabited by man more than 2,000 years ago • There will be a combined book launching party in Sydney in Novem ber for two New Guinea oldhands— Messrs. Ivan Champion and Malcolm Wright. Ivan Champion has just had republished, by Lansdowne Press, his Across New Guinea from the Fly to the Sepik (first edition in 1932) and Malcolm Wright has put out his second book, by the same publishers, The Gentle Savage. • Seventy Anglican clergymen will meet in Honiara in November to consider a successor to the Rt.
Rev. Alfred Hill, who is to retire as Bishop of Melanesia next June.
Bishop Hill will be 65 in November. • Mr. R. M. Watson, a senior research officer of the Reserve Bank of Australia, will arrive in Noumea in November as economist with the South Pacific Commission —a three year appointment. • Mr. John Christian, Pitcairn Island’s magistrate for the past 10 years, arrived in Auckland in the Ceramic on October 10 for an eye operation. Mr. Christian resigned as magistrate two days before leaving Pitcairn.