People

i Mr. R. N. Hamilton, the first stralian Commissioner to Fiji, has n apointed Australian High Com ;sioner in Kenya. He has held rseas posts in the Australian De tment of External Affairs in igkok, New York and London. » The P-NG Treasurer, Mr.

P. J, Newman, who is on leave, 1 be visiting some African countries ore returning to Port Moresby in ; December. He will make short ts to Sierra Leone, Ghana and izania to study fiscal policies and -cost housing.

I Governor H. Rex Lee, former vernor of American Samoa, has n sworn in in Washington as stant administrator for admini ition in the Agency for Inter ional Development.

I Mr. W. H. Tolhurst, of Mel irne, has been appointed area tiager in Port Moresby for lingham Corporation of New inea Pty. Ltd.

I Mr. Aubrey Hodgson, 76, a red RN naval officer, of Pymble, ney, and his daughter, Joan, left ney in late November on the ssageries Maritimes passenger »o vessel Polynesie for a round to see New Caledonia and the v Hebrides. dr. Hodgson last saw Vila in 8, when he arrived as a RN et aboard the cruiser HMS illenger soon after establishment the New Hebrides Condominium.

I Leading Solomon Islander, Dmon Dakei, of the BSIP Medical lartment, Honiara, has won the tish Red Cross Certificate and Ige of Honour, class 11, for out iding service since the start of BSIP Red Cross branch, in 1952. ) Four men and one woman from ma-New Guinea will participate the Duke of Edinburgh’s third nmonwealth study conference to held in Sydney, Melbourne and iberra next May and June. The ference will be attended by some i people from Commonwealth ntries and its theme will be, “The nan problems of industrial de opment and re-development in nmonwealth countries”, fhe five P-NG delegates are ssrs. Paulus Arek, 38, an Ad listration teacher, who is founder

and president of the Northern Dis trict Workers’ Association; Robin Kumaina, 28, a bank officer with the Reserve Bank of Australia; Christopher Dobunaba, 42, clerical assistant with the Department of Forests, who is president of the Wau- Bulolo Timber Workers’ Association; Mrs. Opa Aruai, 30, theatre man ageress and store keeper; and Mr.

Alan Davidson, 31, licensed Customs agent, who is secretary for the Wewak area of the Chamber of Com merce. • Pacific reefs will not be see ing much of Walter O. Cernohorsky in future, but the museums of the world will. He has been appointed Curator of Molluscs at the Auck land Institute and Museum, in suc cession to Dr. Baden-Powell, who is retiring in April, 1968. Before Mr. Cernohorsky takes up his NZ appointment he will take about eight months’ leave to make a study-tour of overseas museums. He has lived in Fiji for the past 15 years and during that time has made an ex haustive study of molluscs and has written a great deal about them in scientific journals. His handbook for shell collectors —Marine Shells of the Pacific —was published by Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd. two months ago and is already winning friends from South Africa to the USA. • Fiji’s Governor, Sir Derek Jakeway, who is also Governor of Pitcairn Island, will become the first Governor to visit Pitcairn while in when he goes there in December. Sir Derek will fly from Fiji to Tahiti and will go on from there in an American Army freight ship which visits the island regularly with supplies for an American team of observers associated with a US geodetic satellite programme.

Two former Governors of Fiji have also visited Pitcairn, but not while in office. Sir Ronald Garvey went there after his term expired in 1958; and Sir Kenneth Maddocks paid a call in the same year before his term had begun. • Mr. Justice C. J. Hammett, who has been Puisne Judge in Fiji for the past 12 years, has succeeded Mr.

Justice Mills-Owens as the colony’s Chief Justice. Mr. Justice Mills- Owens has gone to Hong Kong as a puisne judge. • Thirteen assistant magistrates have been appointed in Papua-New Guinea. They are students from the Administrative College, who are ex pected to graduate in December.

They were appointed so as to give them some practical experience in

local courts. After graduation they will spend a further period as assis tant magistrates before qualifying as magistrates. The 13 are Messrs.

Ephraim Jubilee and Ronald Tovue, of Rabaul; Kwalimu Lofena, of Rigo; Sinaka Goava, of Hanuabada; Joseph Tonnaku, of Buin; Joseph Watori and Robert Galis, of Kavieng; Andrew Pia’afu and Andrew Opo Maino, of Bereina; John Hakena, of Sohano; Cuthbert Hangiri, of Popondetta: Kaekae Avaisa, of Kairuku; and Lanson Geimo Nidung, of Finsch hafen. • Well-known territorian and old Islands hand Doug Askew, who came south to Sydney from Samarai at the end of June on five months’ ac cumulated leave, got a nasty shock in November when he received a letter from the Department of Agri culture saying that his services as a copra inspector were no longer re quired. Doug, who will be 65 at the end of the year, had been a copra inspector with the department for 11 years. He thinks it a poor show that it waited until his leave was almost over before informing him it would be dispensing with his services— especially as he had left many of his belongings in Samarai. Doug worked for the department all over the terri tory. Although he has nearly reached retiring age in the Public Service, there is a desperate shortage of quali fied men in the P-NG Administration.

New mayor of the City of Suva, elected in November, is Mr. L. G. Usher, 60, who is executive director and editor of the daily "Fiji Times". He is a New Zealander, whose wife, Jane, comes from San Fran cisco. The two are seen here with the Minister for Communications, Mr. Charles Stinson (right), who is a former mayor.

Mr. Usher went to Fiji in the early 1920 s as a schoolteacher, and during World War II he was Government Information officer.

He is Suva's fifth mayor, and succeeds Mr. Harvey Hunt. Suva's deputy mayor is Mr. C. P. Bidesi. Lautoka Town Council in November re-elected as mayor Mr. E.

Wong.