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• Mr. H. J. Goodwin has been Director of Education on auru. Mr. Goodwin, a graduate [ Arts of the University of Sydney, is been employed by the New South 'ales Department of Education since )39. Since 1960 he has been Prin pal of the Henry Lawson High •hool, Grenfell.
He is on secondment from the SW Department of Education for i initial period of two years. • Mr. H. V. (Hugh) Clarke has :en appointed to the new position Director of Information and iblicity with the Department of ;rritories. Mr. Clarke has been with e department for the last ten years charge of its publications, films d exhibits programme. In his new isition, he will be responsible for blic information and publicity con rning Papua-New Guinea, Nauru, Northern Territory, Norfolk and, Christmas Island and Cocos and.
Mr. Clarke is the author of three oks with war-time themes. • Sir Norman Alexander, the ademic planner for the South cific University to be established in ji, arrived in Suva on July 7. He s accepted an invitation to be vice airman of the interim council for ; university, which will plan, build d establish the university. • The Bishop of Apia, the Most v. George Pearce, has be e n aointed Roman Catholic Archbishop Suva. He succeeds Archbishop :tor Foley, wo resigned earlier this ir because of ill-health. The new :hbishop, who is 46, was born in )st o n, Massachusetts. He was lained a priest in the Society of iry in 1947; became Vicar The most charming pin-up to be found anywhere in the South Pacific in July undoubtedly was Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Kent, 34, seen here (with the Duke in the back ground) receiving a bouquet in Suva.
The Duke and Duchess represented Queen Elizabeth at Tonga's corona tion, and then made visits to the Cook Islands, Western Samoa and Fiji.
She made a great hit wherever she went because of her obvious sincerity, and her considerable personal charm.
Before her marriage in 1961 she taught school. — Photo: Rob Wright.
Apostolic in Samoa in 1956 with a titular bishopric; and was made a bishop last July. • A well-known Papuan, Rarua Tau, who worked with the P-NG Administration continuously for 32 years, retired in July.
Mr. Tau first joined the Administra tion in 1923 when he began work with the Government Printing Office.
He remained there for seven years before leaving to work as a teacher with the Rev. Percy Chatterton at Hanuabada. After five years teach ing he rejoined the Administration as a clerk and worked continuously with the Administration from then on. • Mr. Michael Leach, informa tion officer at the British Residency, Vila, New Hebrides, for the past two years, left Vila to return to England on June 28. The highlight of Mr.
Leach’s work in the New Hebrides was the commencement of broad casts over Radio Vila, which he started in conjunction with members of the French Residency’s informa tion service. Mr. Leach’s successor is Mr. M. L. A. Fitzgerald, who has seen service in the Middle East in the radio and public relations fields. He was seconded from the Central Office of Information, London. • Mrs. Ann Pellegreno, of Mich igan, completed a flight round the world in a 20-year-old plane in early July to mark the 30th anniversary of the ill-fated trip of Amelia Earhart, the US aviatrix, who dis appeared after leaving Lae, New Guinea, for Howland Island. Mrs.
Pellegreno’s flight, over a distance of about 28,000 miles, took 28 days. • Mr. Thomas G. Hatakeyama, 38, has been appointed to succeed Mr.
Charles Shiraishi as American Samoa’s Director of Agriculture. He is a graduate of the University of Hawaii and Cornell University, and was previ ously Assistant Director of Agricul ture. Mr. Shiraishi, who served as director for four years, has been appointed director of the Peace Corps training programme for the Pacific area in Honolulu. • A two-engine Piper Com manche, piloted by Mr. Jim Hazel ton, of Air Melanesia, began an aerial geophysical survey of the New Hebrides on June 28. The survey is being conducted by the Con dominium’s Geological Service in conjunction with the University of Hawaii. • Ronald and Jean MacGregor will retire from Soraken Plantation,
Buka Passage, Bougainville, in Sep tember, after almost a lifetime in the Islands. The MacGregors, Scots from Argyllshire, were married in Scotland in 1925 and went to Australia soon after. Mr. MacGregor was a Lever’s manager in the Solomons from 1928 until 1942, when they lost everything they owned following the arrival of the Japanese. Mr. MacGregor served with the BSI Corps from 1942 until 1946 and since 1949, after a short stay in Australia, he has managed Soraken. During their long period in Bougainville Mrs. MacGregor has been especially interested in the CWA, and in a district where her neighbours, mostly government, move about fairly constantly, she claims she finds herself “a bit of a curio”.
Mrs. MacGregor’s mother is still living in Scotland at the age of 87, and they have a married son there, but they plan to live in Sydney. • Regional Director of the Pacific area for the WHO, Dr. Francisco Dy, visited Tonga in July, and was enter tained by the Premier, at a reception at the Dateline Hotel. • The first concrete step towards the implementation of Peace Corps assistance to Western Samoa was taken early July with the arrival in Apia of the director of the Peace Corps project in Western Samoa, Mr.
David Zeigenhagen, and his wife.
Mr. Ziegenhagen was himself a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philip pines. For 18 months before going to Samoa he was assistant director in Washington of the Peace Corps programme in Thailand.
He said on his arrival in Apia that the call for volunteers for Peace Corps programmes in Western Samoa, Tonga and Fiji had resulted in over 2,000 applicants, mostly from university graduates. • The Henganofi by-election for the New Guinea House of Assembly has been won by Bono Azanifa, who is a vice-president of the Henganofi Local Government Council, a mem ber of the District Advisory Council and the Coffee Marketing Board, and an assistant magistrate. Mr. Azanifa won with 6,505 votes, on the pre ferences, defeating his nearest op ponent, Pupuno Aruno, by 528 votes. • Mr. Thomas Michael Crotty has been appointed Director of Public Works for Papua and New Guinea, on loan from the Common wealth Department of Works for three years. Mr. Crotty has been constructional manager for the Com monwealth Department of Works, Papua and New Guinea region, since 1965.