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HE Duke and Duchess of Kent are to visit Fiji in July after nding the Coronation of King ifa’ahau Tupou IV of Tonga, he Duke will represent Queen :abeth at the coronation celebra is. Afterwards, the Duke and ;hess will spend three days in Fiji, ving on July 11 and leaving in the y hours of July 15. The Duke and ;hess have also accepted invita is to visit Rarotonga and Western 10a. > Mr. Peter Piper, formerly of a, was married to Mrs. J. N.

Is, of Adelaide, at St. Columb’s irch, Hawthorn, Victoria, on April > Well-known Norfolk Island itity, Mr. Ab Bathie, and his wife y were strolling at Ball Bay, folk Island, recently when Ab ;ed up a coin dating back to the y convict days. It had the head <.ing George III on one side and annia on the other, and bore the ; 1799. It was so black with age it was impossible to tell whether 'as gold, silver or copper, but it the same size as the common ly. • After 45 years in the New rides, Mr. Charles Graziani has ed in New Caledonia. As a young i, Mr. Graziani worked on various itations in the group. He was icularly well-known on Santo re he was manager of the Estate en plantation for a number of s. During the war, he and his embarked on a profitable ure when they operated a res ant on the Hagen property for American troops. Later, they sted in various enterprises, in ing a copra plantation at Hog hour. This property, within a tered harbour fringed with white ly beaches, was recently sold to American company, which is re ed to be planning to establish a lern tourist hotel there in the near re. Santo residents gave the ora is the name of the French olynesian beauty on the oppo ite page. She was photographed y James Anderson, now a Syd ey photographer, beside a

tream near Taiohae, Nukuhiva

i the Marquesas.

Graziani couple a farewell dinner party at the “Corsica” restaurant and presented them with an ivory token. • Two Resident Agents in the Cook Islands have swapped jobs.

Mr. J. H. Webb has gone from Aitutaki to Atiu. Mr. J. J. MacCauley has gone from Atiu to Aitutaki. • Mr. James C. Flannery, special assistant to the Governor of Ameri can Samoa for four years until last October, has been appointed District Administrator of the Yap District of the US Trust Territory. Mr. Flannery arrived in the territory in March to become special assistant to the High Commissioner. He served a total of eight years in American Samoa, originally as auditor. • Mr. L. B. Capon, who has served with the Australian Admini stration on Nauru, has been appointed Surveyor in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. • The first Justices of the Peace have been appointed on Niue Island.

They are Mr. Leslie R. Rex, of Avatele; Pastor T. Tamatoa, of Makefu; and Mr. Tongakilo, of Mutalau. Any two Justices of the Peace sitting together may try cases in the High Court, and the three JPs will relieve the judge and com missioners of many of the minor cases. • Mr. W. H. Johns, of Port Moresby, has been appointed chair man of the South Pacific Games Trust, which will control funds for the 1969 South Pacific Games to be held in Port Moresby.

The P-NG Administrator, Mr.

David Hay, said he was delighted that a person of Mr. Johns’ standing in the territory and of his business experience had agreed to undertake the job. He hoped to announce ad ditional names of trust members soon. • Fiji’s Governor, Sir Derek Jakeway, has appointed Mr. D. W.

Brown as Member for Natural Resources in the Fiji Government.

He succeeds the Leader of Govern ment Business, Ratu K. K. T. Mara, who previously also handled the Natural Resources portfolio. Mr.

Brown was previously Ratu Mara’s parliamentary secretary. • The University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, is to publish a history of Norfolk Island by Norfolk resident Merval Hoare. The history covers its discovery by Captain Cook in 1774 to the end of 1966. Mrs. Merval

Hoare, who has written many articles for PIM on Norfolk’s history, is also author of the Rambler’s Guide to Norfolk Island, which is a detailed island guide, giving main points of interest. Her full history of the island is the result of many years research. • The appointment of new As sistant Resident Commissioners in the New Hebrides and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony was an nounced recently. Mr. Michael Townsend, MC, who became ARC in the GEIC a few months ago after serving in the New Hebrides since 1958, is to return to the New Hebrides as Assistant Resident Com missioner. He will be replaced in the GEIC by Mr. Derek Cudmore, who has been Deputy Financial Secretary in Honiara since June last year. Mr. Townsend will take over his new job late this year or early next year at the conclusion of leave; Mr. Cudmore will go to Tarawa in September. • The Rev. S. J. Cooper was in ducted in Paton Memorial Church, Vila, on May 4 as Presbyterian mis sionary of the district of Vila- Erromanga. The service was con ducted by the Rev. W. D. Francis, BA, Moderator of the Efate Presby tery. He was assisted by the Rev. R.

W. Murray, the Rev, T. K, Galuvaka dua and Pastor Mahlon Vatoko.

Representatives of the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches at tended. Mr. Cooper, who is married with four children, replaces the Rev.

H. F. Peak who returned to Aus tralia last December for health reasons. Mr. Cooper is a former district missionary at White Sands, Tanna, but has recently been serving in Victoria.

Mrs. Merval Hoare.