People In Pictures

Above, senior and middle range New Guinean public servants ge round the table in Port Moresby in May for the first of a new serie! of management courses, designed to advance local officers to jobs o higher responsibility. The course, being conducted at the Admini[?] trative College, deals with staff, finance, supply and communications, am between sessions officers will return to their departments for on-the job instruction. Below are three New Guineans of the latest group to be appointed executive cadets under the W. R. Carpenter group' executive training scheme in New Guinea. The company now has 35 executive cadets in training at territory colleges, all expenses paid There will be a further intake later this year. From left, Dalem Kasek 21, of Kar Kar, Island; Paul Wai, 19, of Mt. Hagen; and Lawrence Wambu, 20, from the Sepik.

Photo: Chin H. Meen.

Recent marriages of interest include (above) Miss Ricki Burgess, of Boroko, Port Moresby, to Mr. P. Avenell, of Rabaul, which took place at St. Joseph's Church, Boroko (the bride was formerly an air hostess with Ansett-Mal); and Miss Cherry Ann Messenger, of Auckland, to Mr. Kevin Heyward, of Hastings, NZ. The bride is the daughter of the late Alf Messenger, and Mrs. Biddy Messenger, well-known in Suva before the war.

Below, Colin Tai, of the Cook Islands, who for four years now has been employed in the Auckland shoe factory of Perillo Brothers.

He likes the work.

a recent meeting the Polynesian sociation of dney, Mrs. Lotty bee, and Messrs. e and Eteuati [?]gala, of Western noa. The Sangala others are attend- I a year's English [?]rse at Sydney Uni sity, and expect to urn to Apia next oruary as senior [?]chers. —Telephoto.

tittle Patricia Boisard and Maraia Laban make a pretty picture, below left, at a recent mannequin parade held in Santo, New Hebrides, In aid of the Santo Hospital. The photo is by Tintin, Santo. Below, Mr. K. C. ("Kam") Gajadhar, Suva-born solicitor who has been ap pointed legal officer at the NZ Marine Department, Wellington. Mr.

Gajadhar is a former acting Solicitor-General in Fiji, where he was also a popular sportsman. Many Islanders will remember him foi his organisational work with the First South Pacific Games, Suva.