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Captain Brett Hilder,

J master of Burns Philp’s Braeside, ill move eastwards to a Tonga base r three months about September, hen he takes over command of the iuvakai. The Niuvakai master, iptain C. H. Filmer, will go on ive about the middle of June, and r about three months, Captain L. agner, chief officer of the Braeside, 11 be master of that ship.

When Captain Filmer returns >m leave he will act as marine perintendent of the Tonga Shipping ;ency during the absence on leave Captain J. C. Hozack.

While Captain Filmer is acting marine superintendent, Captain Ider will act as master of the uvakai. • Pago Pago’s Intercontinental tel has a new manager—Mr. Rudy hter, 41, of California, who has irly 15 years experience running els in Austria and California, succeeds Mr. Charles Klemes, who left Pago Pago in early May NZ and Australia. > One of Papua-New Guinea’s native patrol officers, Mr. and Kekedo, has just mounted ther rung on the Government ler. [e’s been asked to act as the As mt District Commissioner at nga, in charge of three Austra -5 at sub-district office and two rs at the new patrol posts, ?erum and Olsobip. ■ r - Kekedo, 24, is from the well vn family originally from Milne but now living at Kokoda in la’s Northern District, r. Kekedo was one of P-NG’s six Assistant Patrol Officers i the training of native field staff mderway in 1962. Now, he’s one e call her the 7/ Beautiful ain". Miss Noumea, alias

>nyse-Anne Gubbay, 19, loves

I the things that a pretty ung Islands lass is expected love. For instance, she loves 'imming and tennis and water iing. But she is also a keen ident of psychology and of

ucation —esoecially the edu

rton of children. She speaks glish and French and is learn- I Italian— Photo: UTA Airlines.

of the territory’s first 12 native As sistant District Officers, but the first to become Acting Assistant District Commissioner.

He takes over temporarily from Greek-born naturalised Australian, Mr. YarnisDarris-Wells, who’s been sent 70 miles north-east to try to help bring the Biami cannibals under control.

At Kiunga, he’ll be in charge of 20,000 native people in 8,000 square miles, much of it along the West Irian border.

There are reports that Director of District Administration Mr. Tom Ellis will be announcing further significant promotions shortly for fP m e of the 41 native officers among the 520 men he has in the field. • Dr. Melvin Bristol, of the University of Hawaii, has arrived in Western Samoa for a year of botanical research. He will gather information on the useful plants, both wild and cultivated, which are known to the Samoans. • Mr. Ken Dalrymple-Hay, managing director of Guadalcanal plains Ltd hopes to return to Honiara, BSIP, in mid-June for about two months. Mr. Dalrymple- Hay a resident of the Solomons for about 30 years, has been in Sydney since late last year convalescing at his Palm Beach home after several hospital operations. • Mr. Albert Sourdin, director ot Le Courrier Australien, a French newspaper published in Sydnev arrived m Tahiti in mid-May for a stay of three weeks. iu f!- D , r *Jsf.* H< Rees > Senior British Medical Officer in the New Hebrides was to leave the condominium on retirement on May 24. Dr. Rees has been in the South Pacific since 1953 J 9 ined the South Pacific Heaith Service in Fiji. He and his W 1? ®kanor head first for NZ and finally for Britain, • Ml - Harry Coleman has made news on Niue by picking up television signals from Hawaii. Sound is good but the pictures were blurred He used a television set loaned from the Stanford Research Institute, Cali fornia, which is interested in the study of the reception of very high radio signals over long distances. The phenomenon of the reception of TV transmission between Hawaai and Rarotonga has been under observa tion for several years and Niue’s participation is complementary.

• .Mrs. F. B. Wilson has been appointed additional Australian Trade Commissioner for the Pacific Islands of b^ se ? fi in Sydney, in the office Mr W P R Clfi £ Trade Commissioner, a^ist. W ‘ R ’ Carney ’ whom she will • r^ am f a Tiare > Popular columnist and reporter for the Cook Islands government daily newspaper, Cook - 1S C “ r f ently s P en ding six months in Tahiti with her husband and stepdaughter. nf ti r it R r e ? Marsh, Administrator of Norfolk Island, will serve an extra three months as Administrator until October this year. He had previously announced that he would retire in June. No successor has been named. • Prominent Suva businessman Mr. Shantilal Desai, of Desai’s Book —pP?** i? as been a PPointed a Justice of the Peace. • Mr. L. M. Davies, Chief Secre tary for the Western Pacific High Commission, is acting as High Com missioner in Honiara during the absence abroad of Sir Robert Foster. • The Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony has two women constables the colony’s first—and presumably the first in the South Pacific Islands.

They are Nei Aribox Turutana and Nei Barutu Tabe. Their uniforms are white with blue stripes and blue epaulettes, and white ankle socks. • President of the New Guinea Women’s Club, Sydney, Mrs. A.

Green, said in May that the club was expecting a big roll up at its annual general meeting to be held at the Feminist Club, 77 King Street, on July 18, at 10.30 a.m.