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3 the first Tongan to be made a ishop of the Anglican Church, was ansecrated in Tonga on August 27. le became Suffragan Bishop of fukualofa and assistant to the bishop i the diocese of Polynesia. Bishop falanna, who was educated in Tonga ad Fiji, was ordained a priest in 956. Two of his sons are training >r the Anglican priesthood. • Mr. Michael Forster, who orked in the Solomons from 1939 > 1950 before he was transferred > Malaya, returned to the BSIP in arly August to take up a post as >cal government training officer in large of the protectorate’s first Local Government Training School, to be pened at Alegegeo, near Auki, on lalaita. • The Papua-New Guinea Com littee on Educational Research has warded a special grant to Dr. John leverly, of Monash University, Mel aurne, to coyer costs for a research rogramme into the teaching of >cial studies in territory Primary Schools. • An Australian industrialist, Sir obert Webster, visited Papua-New Guinea during August. He is chair lan of directors of the Bradford otton Mills Ltd., Felt and Textiles I Australia Ltd., chairman of the ustralian Manufacturing Industries dvisory Council, and other govern ent and privately operated industrial adies. Sir Robert surveyed the ter tory potential for manufacturers in ic weaving and garments trades. • Mr. W. Ramsay, MLC and lanager of the BSIP Ports Authority, ft Honiara on August 7 aboard the ner Orcades, on leave. Captain aul Frey is acting manager in Mr. amsay’s absence. • Mr. lan McDonald, chairman f the Papua-New Guinea Copra larketing Board, left Port Moresby n August 13 for two months’ leave i Australia. Mr. K. G. Oliver, eputy chairman of the board, is lairman in Mr. McDonald’s absence. • Dr. Gideon Zoleveke has been selected president of the Honiara -lub. Others elected include Mr.
Geoffrey Dennis, vice-president, Mr. rancis David, secretary, and Mr.
Peter Naturanga, treasurer. About $2,500 has been donated so far for a new clubhouse. • Mr. Abraham Siau, a senior executive officer with the BSIP Treasury, left Honiara in August for the UK to do a five months’ ac countancy course—sponsored by the British Council. • Mr. Max Daniels, the first Australian Aboriginal to be awarded a Churchill Fellowship, is on a tour which will take him to Papua-New Guinea, the New Hebrides, the Solomons, Fiji and New Zealand.
Mr, Daniels, 22, is the assistant superintendent of an Aboriginal sett lement and a director of the Snake Bay Co-operative Trading Society, near Darwin. • Mr. Leo A. Falcam has been appointed special assistant to the High Commissioner of the US Trust Ter ritory of the Pacific Islands.
Mr. Falcam, 31, was born at Ponape, Caroline Islands, and has been assistant district administrator in Ponape since February 1964. • A new Commissioner of Works has been appointed in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony in place of Mr. W. F, Cox. He is Mr. D. S.
Short who has had previous Public Works Department service in Zambia and Zanzibar from 1952-1964, and has recently been employed by the West Australian Roads Department.
Mr. Short is expected to arrive with his wife at Tarawa on Sep tember 9. • A New Zealand farmer, Mr, B.
R. C. Townend, who paid a visit to Noumea recently, returned home to Cambridge at the beginning of August with some important, but elementary news for his compatriots.
New Zealand milk powder, he said, was not selling well in Noumea be cause the labels were printed in English and the people there spoke French.
“They like the quality, but the label puts them off,” he said. “If we want to do business, we must make provision for interpreters or print material in the language of the country we are selling to.” • The Cook Islands Premier, Mr.
Albert Henry, will visit Auckland and Wellington on his way to a con ference of the South Pacific Com mission in Noumea in early October.
Mr. Henry will arrive in Auckland in the liner Mariposa on September 25 accompanied by his wife.
• Mr. Peter Chignell has taken over from Mr. Wain Batten as Tonga’s Director of Education. Mr.
Batten left Nukualofa in mid-August to return to New Zealand in his yacht (see yachting section).
Mr. Chignell, who was born in England, has been teaching in New Zealand for the past five years. He has degrees from Durham and Cam bridge Universities. • Professor Norman Meller, Pro fessor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii, left Port Moresby in late August after a seven months tour of Papua-New Guinea under a Fulbright grant. Professor Meller has been making a com parative study of the P-NG House of Assembly and other Pacific legislatures. • Mr, George Bezar. advertising manager of the Fiji Broadcasting Commission, has decided to leave the broadcasting business. With his wife he departs Suva for New Zea land in mid-September. • Tito Tapungao, Tabea Riwata, Houati lakopo and Wilfred Muller, all deck officer cadets, left Tarawa for Hong Kong, via Ocean Island, in early August to serve their ap prenticeships on one of the China Navigation Company’s ships. They left on the Nivanga and were to join the Anshun at Ocean Island for Hong Kong. They are the first group of cadets to do their training with the CNC.
John-Charles Ratard, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Ratard of Acre, New Hebrides, has graduated in electronics engineering at the University of Sydney. He was born at the Paton Memorial Hospital, Vila. His younger brother, Michael, married Rhonda Eyers, of Sydney, earlier this year.