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1/fRS. Marie-Terese Danielsson, ri wife of the Swedish author lengt ( Gauguin in the South Seas ) )anielsson, is to act as curator of he Gauguin Museum at Papeari, ['ahiti, for eight months from the nd of June. She will relieve the per nanent curator, Mr. Gilles Artur, yho is to visit Europe.

Although the museum has no iriginal Gauguin paintings, it is a •opular calling place for tourists naking a trip round Tahiti.

Since it was opened in June, 1965, t has had nearly 70,000 visitors. This rear’s figure is expected to reach 15,000.

The only original Gauguin that has o far been exhibited in the museum 5 a canvas called “Vairumati”, which vas shown there for two weeks in during the Bougainville bi-cente lary celebrations. “Vairumati” was >n loan from the Musee du Louvre n Paris, and was obtained through he intervention of French Poly nesia’s Governor, Mr. Jean Sicurani. • Mr. Art Van-eijk, 27, and his ittractive Cook Islands wife, Vaine, 9, were to return to Rarotonga in uly after 18 months in Holland, fhey plan to live with Vaine’s father, vlr. Puta Tekiri, at Rarotonga.

Dutch-born, Mr. Van-eijk arrived n Rarotonga in 1962 as a costing derk for the Cook Islands Trading Company. In partnership with Mr. iohn Meers he later became well mown as a photographer.

Soon after he returned to Holland n 1966 Vaine flew to join him and he couple were married in 1967. • Mr. and Mrs. Allen Innes «lebrated their Golden Wedding an liversary on June 1 with several parties in Sydney with their many •datives and friends.

The couple, who originally met in Fiji in 1914, spent 22 years in New 3uinea before the Japanese invasion in 1942. Mr. Innes worked for Burns § Vivacious Bernadette Stevens was one of several Fiji girls at a recent social night of the Islanders Association of Sydney.

Bernadette, formerly Miss Em

berson from Fiji's "burning

north-west" township of Lau toka, is now settled in the Sydney suburb of Balmain.

Photo; Jim Fairburn.

Philp for several years and later operated several companies out of Salamaua, including the Hotel Sala maua.

Mrs. Innes told PIM that recently her husband had regained his sight after a successful cataract-glaucoma operation. • That great reservoir of good will in NZ towards Samoa has again been tapped. This time to the tune of $20,000 raised there by the NZ Red Cross through public subscrip tion to finance a visit to Apia of a surgical team to treat a number of Samoan crippled children.

The team arrived on its 10-day visit in mid-June. It comprised surgeon Mr. A. W. Beasley, anethethist Dr.

R. Wright, sister Mrs. H. Mannion, physiotherapist Miss Gilbert and Red Cross official L. S. Poole.

Mr. Beasley made a survey in Samoa last year and examined 154 crippled children throughout Upolu and Savaii. He found 34 who could be helped by surgical treatment and these are the ones being operated on during the team’s visit. • Mr. L. J. Waka, 24, who comes from Bola village in the Talasea Sub-District of New Britain, has gone to Geneva to attend the 52nd ses sion of the International Labour Conference. Mr. Waka will act as an advisor to the Australian delegation attending the conference. • The marriage of Miss Tutasi Pasefika, of Funafuti, GEIC, and Mr. Keith McDonald took place at Nauru on June 1. Keith hails from Victoria, and is employed in Nauru by the British Phosphate Commis sioners.

The wedding was a happy blend of Australian and Islands style, begin ning with the church service where all was Australian, and ending with a sumptuous party, at which Ellice Island traditions prevailed.

Mrs. F. Pasefika, mother of the bride, who is one of the two women who are members of Island Councils in the GEIC, spoke warmly of the couple, and Mr. T. Lauti, as master of ceremonies, hailed the marriage as a strengthening of inter-racial harmony. • Mr. D. N. Harvey has been ap pointed chairman of the P-NG Tourist Board. Mr. Harvey replaces Mr. D. G. Cannon who resigned the chairmanship on leaving the territory.

Mr. Harvey, who was deputy chairman to Mr. Cannon, is an employee of Steamships Trading Company where he is responsible for supervision of the company’s hotel interests.

• An American exchange student from Detroit, 17-year-old, Miss Christine Piethe arrived in Port Moresby in June, on her first visit to P-NG. While in Port Moresby, Christine will stay with Mr. and Mrs.

Warden and their daughter Elizabeth.

Miss Piethe will be enrolled in form five at the Port Moresby High School for eight weeks and will be a class mate of Miss Warden. • Dr. Mary Elizabeth Shutler, an American archaeologist from the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, returned to the New Hebrides recently for a period of field work in the southern islands. She is the wife of Dr.

Richard Shutler, also an archaeo logist. The couple have been working in the New Hebrides off and on for the past three or four years. • A cultural agreement between Australia and Indonesia was signed in Djakarta on June 14 by the Indo nesian Foreign Minister, Mr. Adam Malik and the Australian Ambas sador to Indonesia Mr. H. M.

Loveday, MBE. The agreement emphasised “the need for widening the mutual understanding and respect of the diverse peoples and nations of the Asian and Pacific regions”.

Ivan Chow cuts the birthday cake at his seventh birthday as his mother, Mrs. M.

Chow, and brother Gary look on. They live in Boroko, Port Moresby.

Photo: Chin H. Meen.