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• The Archbishop of Melbourne’s son, the Rev. Theodore Woods, has arrived in Papua-New Guinea to be gin work with the Anglican Church there.

Initially, he will act as principal of St. Aidan’s teacher training college at Dogura, the big cathedral station on the Papuan coast.

Father Woods was previously in Papua as a layman for a year in 1959-60, when he taught at the Anglican Martyrs’ School near Pop ondetta. • Mr. G. Pitkeathly has been appointed Senior Education Officer in the British Service in the New Hebrides. Mr. Pitkeathly was formerly Chief Education Officer in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, • Mr. Albert Henry, who was admitted to Auckland Hospital on January 23 for a medical examina tion for a stomach complaint ( PIM, Feb., p. 15), was discharged early in February. No operation was neces sary.

He was to return to Rarotonga by air at the end of February. • Mr. Joseph Konesane Fuimaono, a Western Samoan, has qualified as master of laws at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He will spend a year or two in New Zealand to gain practical experience in law before he returns to Apia. • Mr. B. L. Officer has been ap pointed Deputy Director of Lands in Fiji. Formerly chief surveyor and valuer, Mr, Officer succeeds Mr.

R. H. Regnault, who was appointed Director of Lands following the retirement of Mr. D. T. Lloyd. • Canon Fine Halapua, of Tonga, has been appointed Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Polynesia, and Bishop Suffragan of Nukualofa.

Canon Halapua, a dedicated and much respected worker, was born in 1930; educated at Tonga College and the Ordination School, Wailoku, Fiji.

Before entering the church, he was a master and subsequently senior master at St. Andrews School, Nukualofa. In 1952 he become head master of that school. Canon Halapua has been Vicar of Tonga since 1962 and was appointed Honorary Canon of the Diocese in 1964. Canon and Mrs. Halapua have a family and two of their sons are theological students.

• Mr. Tupui Henry, son of the Cook Islands Premier, Mr. Albert Henry, has been appointed Minister of Internal Affairs in the Cook Islands Cabinet.

He was recently elected to fill the Mauke seat in the Cook Islands Legislative Assembly ( PIM, Feb., p. 136). This brought the number of members of the Henry family in the Assembly to four, as the Premier’s sister, Mrs. Marguerite Storey, is Speaker, and a nephew, Mr. Geoffrey Henry, is a member for Aitutaki. • The United Nations regional representative in the South Pacific, Mr. Alexander P. Hixon, and Mrs.

Hixon, flew to Nukualofa from Apia in mid-February on a familiarisation visit to the kingdom. • A further step forward in Tonga’s five-year development plan was the arrival in the kingdom re cently of Dr. Vincent Liyanage, of Ceylon. He has been appointed by the Food and Agricultural Organisa tion of the United Nations to take up the position of project leader of the coconut rehabilitation scheme.

He graduated BSc from London University in 1945 and obtained his Doctorate in Genetics at Manchester in 1953. Dr. Liyanage has had ex perience with the Ceylonese Rehabili tation Scheme and has been botanist and divisional head of the Coconut Research Institute of Ceylon. • Former Papuan rubber planter Colin Sefton, who now lives in Syd ney, is getting about on crutches fol lowing a street accident in which he was knocked down by a car. • Mrs. John Kaputin, of Port Moresby, in February was making a three-week visit to Perth to see her parents. Husband John is with the East-West Center in Honolulu.

• The “Samoanisation” of Wester Samoa’s Public Service continues t gain momentum as educations standards reach graduate level. R(. cently three high posts previously hel by expatriates have been filled by loc* personnel.

Herbert Clark, a former scholar ship student and now a qualifies solicitor, has been appointed legs: officer; the chief accountant in th Treasury Department is now Dax Betham, who is still in his thirties and the post of Financial Secretan has been given to John Wendt. Mi Wendt will replace Dr. P. P. Hellet who will retire on April 1, • Mr. Bill Beatty, Australian author and feature writer was a passenger in the Canberr when she called at Nukualofa re cently. Although strictly a writer cr Australiana, after a few hours ashore seeing the sights and meeting people he said that he could easily be lurei; back to this part of the Pacific fa a much longer stay. • The Most Rev. Victor Foley* who became the first Roman Cathohi archbishop of Suva last July, has res signed because of ill-health. Archr bishop Foley is at present in England staying with his sister, Mrs. Jl Morecroft, in Kent, where he wax born.

Archbishop Foley went to Englanoj as a young priest in 1937 and wax consecrated bishop in 1944.

Father L. Hannan has been electee vicar capitular of the Archdiocese o< Suva and will be in charge until thxj appointment of a new archbishop. • Dr. C. P, Hoyt, manager o:c the United Nations-South Pacific] Commission rhinoceros beetle projec: since its inception in 1964, ha:x resigned to take up a position in New Zealand.

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