People

• Mr. K. R. Bain, a new Zealander who is Secretary for Social Services in Fiji, has been appointed Britain’s commissioner on the South Pacific Commission. Mr, Bain has succeeded Mr. T. R. Cowell, who has retired. • Well-known Pacific hand, Mr.

Angus Mcßean, has recently been haying a look at various places in Asia before returning to Papua-New Guinea for a new assignment. Mr.

Mcßean has been in India, Ceylon, Malaysia and Singapore. A card from him to PIM , posted in Ceylon just before Christmas, said he might re turn to P-NG by way of Indonesia, Mr. Mcßean is well known through out the Pacific as an authority on handicrafts (he wrote a booklet on the subject for the South Pacific Com mission), a schoolteacher in the New Hebrides, and (most recently) a schoolteacher at Yule Island, Papua. • Crown Prince Tupouto’a, of Tonga, who has been living in Lon don for the past 12 months, was due to report to the Sandhurst Military Academy early in January. The Crown Prince has recently been reading up on military subjects for his entrance to the academy. • Mr. lan Cawte, who has been District Commissioner, eastern, BSIP, since 1962, is retiring on medical grounds. He has been on sick leave since last August. Mr. Cawte went to the Solomons from Nigeria and for a time he was Acting District Commissioner, Western Solomons. • The position of chief accountant in the Treasury of Western Samoa, previously held by an overseas officer, Mr. T. Lamb, has been filled locally.

Mr. Dan Betham has been promoted from accountant to chief accountant, and Lameko Gaee has been made accountant. • Fiji authoress Mrs. June Knox- Mawer visited the GEIC in December to gather material for a new book, magazine articles and BBC talks. • Papua-New Guinea has a new Anglican auxiliary bishop. He is the Venerable Bevan Meredith, who was made Archdeacon of northern New Guinea last December. He is due to be consecrated at St. John’s Cathedral, Brisbane, on February 26.

Archdeacon Meredith, who is 39, comes from New South Wales. He has been in the ministry only six years. Before being ordained he was

a teacher in Queensland for six years and at the Anglican Martyr’s School, near Popondetta, for five years. For the last four years he has been priest in charge of the new mission district in the primitive Managalas area of northern Papua, and pioneered the adjoining valley of the Upper Musa.

The new bishop will be based at Madang and will supervise the New Guinea mainland and islands. • Mr. Martin Mangan, newly ap pointed Deputy High Commissioner of the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, arrived in Saipan with his wife on January 7.

When Mr. Mangan accepted his new post, which had been vacant since January, 1966, he was Assistant Director of the Office of Territories, Department of the Interior, with special responsibility for the Trust Territory, Guam, Virgin Islands and American Samoa, • A Papuan doctor, Dr. Reuben Taureka, has been appointed Acting Assistant Director of Medical Services in Papua-New Guinea. Dr. Taureka, who is 38, was trained in Suva and graduated in 1952. He was previously District Medical Officer at Madang. • Mr. T. A. Henry, son of the Premier of the Cook Islands, Mr.

Albert Henry, has won a by-election for the Mauke seat in the Cook Islands Legislative Assembly. Mr.

Henry fills the seat vacated by Mr.

R. J. Dashwood, who resigned as a Cabinet Minister and as an Assembly member last year when he was charged with corruptly attempting to obtain a bribe while a Minister of the Crown. Mr. Dashwood later

lodged an unsuccessful appeal agair being struck off the roll on Mau ( PIM, Nov., 1966, p. 75). • The Deputy Governor of i Reserve Bank of Australia, Mr. J.

Phillips, flew to Papua-New Guin. in January to chair a meeting Rabaul of his bank’s advisory coo mittee on central banking. M Phillips also looked at savings as loan activities conducted by t Reserve Bank in Wewak, Mt. Hag and Madang. • Dr. H. H, Penny, former pn cipal of the Adelaide Teach© College, made a two-week visit P-NG in early January. Dr. Pern was invited to the territory to adw on the new Goroka Teachers’ Colie which will be the territory’s msi training centre for secondary teach© • Mr. G. J. McDonnell, a 34-ye;e old Bachelor of Engineering and! former manager of McDonnek Industries Ltd., has been appoint] Co-ordinator of Transport in Papu New Guinea. Mr. McDonnell, wv has had transport experience in Ghas and Nigeria, is expected to take his new post in Port Moresby befo Easter. • The Australian Minister ft Civil Aviation, Mr. R. C. Swan and the Director-General of Cii Aviation, Mr. D. G. Anderson, vw visit P-NG on February 6 to beg a week’s tour of major airwas centres in the territory. They vw confer with public bodies interest! in civil aviation. • The Rev. Sione Latukefu, Tongan Methodist minister, and ft wife Ruth are to move to Po' Moresby in April after the birth their first child, expected in Maro - The Rev. Sione has just compleU his Ph.D. thesis at the Australii National University, Canberra. H wife, formerly Dr. Ruth Fink, hd been lecturer in anthropology Sydney University until recent!!

The Rev. Sione has been appoint!

Lecturer in Social Disciplines at t! new P-NG University. His wife hri been appointed Senior Lecturer. • Dr. Pupuke Robati, of the Cote Islands, has passed his Diploma Public Health, a post-graduate couni at the Medical School of Otajr University, New Zealand. He is tit first Cook Islander to do so. HI Robati is a graduate from the School of Medicine and is tl! member for Rakahanga in the Cooc Islands Legislative Assembly.

Archdeacon Meredith