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i Mr. Alvin L. Mangnall, 53, has i recommended to the United es Secretary of the Interior, Mr. /art Udall, for appointment as itorial Secretary (lieutenant-gov ir) of American Samoa. Gov ir Owen S. Aspinall submitted Mangnall’s name after conferring a newly-formed advisory council lamoan chiefs. Mr. Mangnall has with the US Federal Govern t for 28 years, mainly with the ;au of Outdoor Recreation. He visited American Samoa several s. overnor Aspinall told his advisory icil that he did not think the was ripe for a Samoan to be )inted Territorial Secretary, as would divide Samoa. He added: id the greatest criticism I receive, jovernor, is that I am married t Samoan. Apparently some of people of Samoa fear I will ur the members of my wife’s ly. This is an unjustified fear, idge to be impartial and fair to Samoans”.

Mr. D. G. Cudmore, the GEIC’s Assistant Resident Commis ;r, was due in Tarawa at the of September to take up his new He will replace Mr. M. M. nshend who has been transferred he New Hebrides as Assistant lent Commissioner.

Mr. John de Young has been inted Executive Officer for d Development on the South ic Commission in place of Mr. . McCreary, who retired from post in May to return to his ion of Associate Professor of il Science at Victoria University, ington. Mr. Young, who is 50, > an MA degree in anthropology the University of Hawaii. He formerly deputy assistant director e US Department of the Interior American Samoan and Micro n affairs.

Three Solomon Islanders and a sh VSO volunteer have won the il Humane Society’s Bronze al for heroism during last Nov ;r’s cvclone in Malaita. The four leading seaman Lazarus Lala. hands Lawrence Manaeli and Sakiri and VSO Peter Mellens. rescued struggling villagers an artificial island near Auki Lilisiana village who had their

canoes swamped by gusts of wind estimated at over 100 mph. • Honiara’s first barbers’ and ladies’ hairdressing salon has opened in Mendana Avenue. The man behind the salon seems well qualified to run it, he is Mr. Kwok Hing Chung, 28, a graduate of the Hong Kong School of Arts, Beauty and Fashion. • Major James Otton, RE, will arrive in Honiara in October to supervise reconstruction of Guadal canal’s Henderson Field airport.

Work on the sealing of the runway and renovation of the part of it that has not been used since the last war is expected to take two years. • Papua-New Guinea’s first in digenous lawyer was admitted to the bar in Port Moresby on September 29. He is Mr. Joseph Aoae, aged 26, who is only the second of his race to gain a university degree. Mr.

Aoae and an agricultural science graduate, Mr. John Natera, both come from Yule Island, about 60 miles west of Port Moresby. • New Zealander Dr. Mervyn McLean and his wife arrived at Aitutaki, Cook Islands, in late August, to tape-record traditional music and obtain associated ethno graphic data. Dr. McLean is Assist ant Professor, Anthropology Depart ment, Indiana University. He is mak ing a study of Cook Islands’ music so he can compare it with New Zea land Maori chants, and then with other Polynesian music. This will be a contribution towards tracing culture contact in Polynesia. The other object of the research is to pre serve traditional Cook Islands music for the future use of Cook Islanders wishing to learn the old chants. No effective study has previously been made of Cook Islands music. The islands of the southern Cooks have been chosen for the initial survey be cause it is from there that the Maori people are believed to have left for New Zealand about 1350 AD.

Dr. McLean will remain in the Cooks until mid-December, and next year he will go to the University of Hawaii as Assistant Professor of Music. • Mr. John Yaxley, British Director of Census for the census taken in the New Hebrides in May, left Vila at the end of September for about six months in Canberra, where he will write up a report on the census with Dr. Norma McArthur, whose book, Island Populations of the Pacific . is reviewed in this issue (p. 95). Mr. Yaxley will be attached to the Department of Demography at

the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. The first part of the census report will contain a brief history of demographic movements and depopulation from Quires’ time to the present. The present New Hebrides population stands at 77,983 which is nearly 1,500 more than was at first thought ( PIM, Sept, p. 39).

The original figure included estimates tor Tanna and the Santo Bush, which m the end turned out to be under estimates. • When Italy’s President Giuseppe Saragat arrived at Tahiti en route to Australia on September 21, he was the first foreign Head of State ever to visit the island. • Dr. Allan Dwyer, famous Aus tralian orthopaedic surgeon, is a man who believes in a busman’s holiday. On a recent visit to the island of Bougainville, he lent a helping hand to the Roman Catholic Medical Mission, and in two weeks performed 36 operations to correct leg and hip deformities. • An American priest-pilot and an Australian priest doctor are launching a small scale “flying doctor service at the Marist mission on BougamviUe. The two men are bather James Moore, of Philadelphia, of Father James Harding, • Mr. Francis Edmunds a manager in Ghana for United Africa Company (Timber) Limited, was flown to Gizo, Solomon Islands, in early September to join Lever‘s Padfic Timber Limited. Mr.

Edmunds, the second Ghanaian to be seconded to LPT, will later help logging operations on nearby Kolom bangara Island— due to commence in mid-1968. . •. Mr - v p Morandi, the first traffic manager in Fiji’s new Marine Department, arrived in the Colony in August. For 14 years, to 1965, he was traffic officer with the Nigerian Port Authority and before that was traffic officer with the Port ot London Authority. In his post in Eiji he will deal mainly with cargo handling and movement through Government ports. • Well-known Port Moresby businessmen Mr. Vince Sanders and ™, r - Pa y Thurecht, piloted a Piper Cherokee 6 light aircraft from Port Moresby to Sydney in September for the South Pacific Aero Clubs. The aircraft had been on a demonstration flight m the territory. Mr. Sanders is chairman of the clubs, which are Eiper agents in the territory