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• Visiting Nauru in August were Mr. and Mrs. C. Trillin, of New York. Mr. Trillin is a staff writer of the New Yorker magazine, who specialises in articles mainly on race relations in various parts of the United States, and occasionally over seas. Mrs. Trillin is a teacher at the New York State University. They were visiting Fiji for a series of articles which Mr. Trillin is writing, when the opportunity arose to visit Nauru.
After Nauru they proposed to call at Tonga, both the Samoas and Tahiti. • Mr. Hugh Evans is the newly appointed Director of Education in Nauru. Mr. Evans was formerly an Education Officer in the RAAF, with the rank of Squadron Leader, and had previously served in the Army and as a teacher. He joins the de partment headed by Mr. John Ayers, secretary for Education and Health’ who has acted as Education Director since earlier this year. • Mr. Aminiasi Katonivualiku, 31, on August 6 became the third Fijian m recent years to be admitted to the Bar in the Supreme Court, Suva. Mr.
Katonivualiku, who is with the Suva legal firm of Comptons, graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree from Victoria University, Welling ton, in 1966 and was admitted to the New Zealand Bar at Wellington in
September, 1967.
• Mr. lan McDonald, P-NG old hand, of Port Moresby, has donated an album of about 100 photographs to the library of the University of P-NG. The photographs, taken in and around Rabaul between 1923 and 1927 by Colonel Lovett Cameron, of Djaul Plantation, New Ireland, include shots of the residence of Queen Emma and the offices of the Kuo Min Tang. • Mr. Benjamin Brial, the retiring deputy for Wallis and Futuna in the French Parliament, was re-elected in the general elections in early July.
He defeated Mr. Herve Loste, a former deputy, by 1,863 votes to 1,509. • Five New Caledonians will represent France at the Olympic Games in Mexico City in October.
They are record-breaking swimming champion Marie-Jose Kersaudy and
her ‘back-stop” Simone Hanner, weightputter A. Beer, and two foot ballers, Kanyan and Charles.
Marie-Jose Kersaudy, when only 12, won seven gold medals for swimming at the Second South Pacific Games in Noumea in December, 1966, to become the star performer of that tournament. Recently, she made news in Europe when she broke several French and European women’s swimming records. • Mr. Tapangkai Sopi, dresser in the New Hebrides Health Service for over 20 years, was recently awarded the British Empire Medal for his work. Currently in charge of the World Health Organisation’s anti tuberculosis team on Ambrym, Mr.
S°Pi has spent most of his time on Malekula and in charge of the French hospital at Norsup, Malekula. • Mr. B. W. Blaikie has been ap pointed a director of Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., of P-NG. Steamies’ group accountant for several years Mr. Blaikie fills the seat left vacant by Mr. T. L. Armitage, who died in Port Moresby in February. • Mr. Paul Brown, previously executive officer for Guadalcanal Plains Ltd., Solomons rice and sorghum grower, hotel owner and food store proprietor, has recently been appointed the company’s general manager. His appointment closely followed the retirement, for health reasons, of Mr. Ken Dalrymple-Hay from the position of managing director. Mr. Hay, 73, who was convalescing at his Palm Beach, Sydney, home in August, remains chairman. • Mr. S. D. Wilson, administrative assistant to Niue’s Resident Com missioner from 1958 to 1961, has been appointed Niue’s Resident Com missioner. Mr. Wilson, who suc ceeds Mr. L. A. Shanks {PIM, Aug., 110), joined New Zealand’s Depart ment of Island Territories 11 years ago. • Representing the Tokelau Islands community of Wellington, NZ, Mr.
J. Pedro recently presented Group Captain D. B. Flintoff, of the RNZAF, with a silver replica of a Sunderland flying-boat to mark the islanders’ gratitude for the many mercy missions to the Tokelau Islands made by the RNZAF since 1945. With the Sunderland service now discontinued, hopes are that a Grumman Mallard amphibian air craft can be used out of Fiji for mercy flights to the Tokelaus.
• New Guinea’s Deputy Coi missioner of Police, Mr. A.
Eskine, was to resign from t force on September 2 for “domes reasons”. Mr. Eskine arrived in N in June, 1965, as Assistant Poli Commissioner, and was promoted deputy this year. He planned to vi relatives in Australia after leavi Port Moresby, and then travel Britain. • Mr. John Fokkema, a form manager of Chevron Hilton Hofc at Sydney and Surfers Paradis Queensland, took up his post manager of Nukualofa’s DatelL Hotel in early August. He replac Mr. Kim Mahnkopf, who was i cently appointed manager of Suvj new Tradewinds Hotel. Mr. Fokkem born in Holland, brought with hi to the Dateline a new cook, M George Deraux, a Frenchman, wl is expected to revamp the hote menus. • Pastor Jonathan Wimbong, i Sa n t o’s Luganville Presbyterh Church, recently attended the Wor Council of Churches Assembly Sweden as the representative of tl New Hebrides Presbyterian Churc Born on Malekula and trained Tangoa Island, Pastor Wimboi spent two years in Sydney at tl Croydon Bible College before beir ordained in 1956. He has bee stationed at Luganville for near] two years. • Mr. Thevenin, new Frenc head of the New Hebrides Agricultui and Animal Husbandry Departmen recently made a “familiarisatio tour” aboard the motor vessel Navak visiting Malekula, Ambrym, Paam and Pentecost. Dr. de Wilde, maternal and child health special!; from the World Health Organisatioi went along also. • Mr. Brian Leamy, administrate of Pago Pago’s five-year-old canner] Star Kist Inc., for the past fou years, was to leave Pago Pago i late August for a new Star Kis appointment at Puerto Rico, Mrs Leamy and the couple’s children lei for New Zealand in early August.