People

How not to lose Friends, etc.

Ieutenant-Colonel P. W.

J C. STOKES, leader of a six icmber Australian parliamentary arty which visited the Pacific Islands i June, had a pat answer for Press uestioners in Suva when he was deed about Australia’s refusal a ;ar or so back to grant a $7.2 lillion loan that had been requested y Fiji.

It was not Australian Government alicy to make loans, he said, adding: fhis is perhaps on the basis that hen you lend you lose a friend.”

Colonel Stokes said Australia was oking into other ways of helping iji.

The Australian parliamentary party, e first to visit the South Pacific lands, took in the New Hebrides, ew Caledonia, the two Samoas and onga besides Fiji. • The Leader of Government □siness in Fiji, Ratu K. K. T. ara, flew to London in mid-June t high level talks with the British overnment on the government’s oposed entry into the European □mmon Market and the implications is would have for Fiji, • Moaaliitele (Larry) Tu’ufuli, 31, is succeeded Tuia’ana T, Letuli as merican Samoa’s Chief of Police, hief Letuli died in Honolulu on May 5 ( PIM , June, p. 143). • The GEIC Wholesale Society’s avel officer, Mr. P. G. Parker, left jrawa on June 14 for Rome to attend • Papua-New Guinea in June

ilected its Miss Territory—Miss

abyn Neilson, 19 (opposite), who

as Miss Madang in the territory ide contest sponsored by the P- G division of the Australian Red •oss. Robyn was born in the terri fy. Until recently she lived in apondetta and is engaged to atrol Officer Chris Viner Smith. ie new Miss Territory is a typist ith the Education Department in adang. In the background is the NG Administrator, Mr. David Hay, ho crowned the winner.

Photo: Chin H. Meen.

a travel conference organised by Air India. He took with him a small ex hibition of Gilbertese and Ellice Islands handicrafts and large coloured photographs of the Colony. • Mr. Henry Cumines, well known in the Pacific Islands as a represent ative of Sydney-based Islands traders, recently set up in business on his own account in Sydney and will trade in agency lines in all groups from Papua- New Guinea to Tahiti. Mr. Cumines was with Robert Gillespie Pty. Ltd., for 14J years, and before that was with Charles Sullivan and Cos. for 11 years. He is now principal of Henry Cumines and Cos. Pty. Ltd. • At its first session in June.

Western Samoa’s new Parliament selected Polataivao Fosi to represent the country at the annual Common wealth Parliamentary Conference in Uganda in October. • A Papuan, Joseph Stanislaus Aoae, has obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree at the Queensland Uni versity. He is the first Papuan or New Guinean to have qualified in law.

He was born at Yule Island, Kairuku, in 1941 and educated at the De La Salle College, Yule Island, and later at the De La Salle College, Castle Hill, Sydney, where he matriculated in 1960. In 1961 he was employed in P-NG’s Department of Law and was granted a scholarship in 1962 to pursue his law degree at the Queensland University.

After being admitted to the Queens land Bar, Mr. Aoae will return to the territory to take up duties with the Department of Law. • Mr. and Mrs. George Hooker, of Tangis Island, South Santo, New Hebrides, will celebrate their silver wedding anniversary on July 4 on the 30-acre copra plantation they have worked all their married life. (Tangis Island is a 30-acre islet in Baldwin Cove). The Hookers have four chil dren—Shirley, 21, Thelma, 19, and Violet, 35, who live in Australia, and Edward, 23, at present working at Norfolk Island. • Mr. A. E. Adams, who has served with the Australian Depart ment of Primary Industry and the Western Pacific High Commission, has been appointed Fisheries Officer with Fiji’s Department of Agriculture. • Mr. Maurice O’Connor, a director of Burns Philp (South Sea) Cos. Ltd., has been appointed a director of the parent company. Burns Philp and Cos. Ltd. Mr. O’Connor joined the staff of Burns Philp in 1926. He was recently made manager of the South Sea department.

• Papua-New Guinea’s retiring Director of District Administration, Mr. J. K. (Keith) McCarthy, is mak ing a final round of tours before leav ing the territory late in September. He left Port Moresby on June 18 for the Morobe District at the start of a series of extensive trips. • Papua-New Guinea’s Admin istrator. Mr. D. O. Hay, has an nounced the appointment of 12 terri tory residents to the South Pacific Games Trust. Further appointments will be made later. Those already appointed are: Mr. W. Johns, Port Moresby (chairman): Mr. J. Dowling, Rabaul; Mr. B. C. Goodsell, Port Moresby; Capain L. Thrift, Lae; Mr.

Toua Kapena, Port Moresby; Mr. H.

Kienzle, Kokoda; Dr, J. Jacobi, Port Moresby; Mr. H. Underwood. Port Moresby; Mr. I. Manton. Ml. Hagen; Mr. T. Abberton, Madang; Mr. R.

Dixon. Port Moresby; Mr. F. Espie, of Melbourne and Bougainville.

The function of the trust is to at tend to the collection and spending of money required for the Games. • Mr. Arthur Warden, chief of the Geological Service of the British Administration in the New Hebrides, has resigned after five years in the Condominium. His successor is Dr. D.

I. J. Mallick, who arrived in Vila re cently from London, Dr. Mallick has previously served in Zambia and Aden. • Mr. Bert Covit and his wife Sara returned to Papeete, Tahiti, a few months ago to work on a new edition of their Official Directory and Guide Book for Tahiti. The last edition was published in 1965 and the new one, the 5th in this series.

Mr. McCarthy.

bould be available towards the end f this year. The present series of uide books is sponsored by the local yndicat d’lnitiative and the Chamber f Commerce, but Bert, who is an jnerican, has been an on-and-off jsident of Tahiti since before the ar and produced a former series of uide books.

The new edition will be completely wised and will have even more ilour plates than the last. • The engagement was announced i London in June between John enry, only son of Dr. and Mrs. J. . Newton, of Stroud, Gloucester lire, and Mary Hamilton, eldest lughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. ulton, former residents of New uinea. The Fulton family lives at aton Square, London, but of recent jars has lived at Mt. Eliza, Victoria, [ary met her fiancee, who was nior surgeon in the Orsova, while i the way to London. They will arry in September and for the time jing will live in Bristol, where Dr. ewton has been appointed registrar : Bristol Hospital. • Mrs. C. McCoy has left the New ebrides to return to Australia after ) years there.

Mrs. McCoy arrived in Vila in M 6 as Miss J. M. Chalk, to take clerical job with the British esidency. Shortly afterwards she et and married Mr. Cecil McCoy id went to live first at the Maske nes, then to Emae, and after a few :ars to the island of Nguna, where ey remained.

Mr. McCoy, who was a member the McCoy family of Norfolk land, a descendant of the McCoy Bounty fame, died two years ago.

Writes a correspondent in Vila: “Both Mr. and Mrs. McCoy will ng be remembered by Islanders and jropeans for their innate honesty all times, their swift, generous help anyone in trouble, and for their nuine interest in, and financial sistance to all good causes, especi ly for any project which helped the ew Hebrideans to help themselves, lose missionaries who lived close to em in the days of isolation will re ember with deep gratitude their arm friendliness and unstinted aterial help given so graciously and generously.” • The Venerable D. A. Rawclilfe, rchdeacon of Southern Melanesia ice 1959, passed through Sydney rly in June on his way to England i leave. Archdeacon Rawcliffe is as e d at Lolowai, Aoba, New ebrides. He is head of the Mel icsian Mission (Anglican Church) the New Hebrides.