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rpHE Bishop of Polynesia, the Right

R ev - I- C. Vockler, will now resign on October 30—earlier than ex pected—because of ill-health. Bishop Vockler, who plans to join a religious order, was expected to return to Fiji m mid-October after undergoing a “minor but urgent” operation in Lon don in September, • Mr. C. Walker, chief agricul tural officer with the Department of Agriculture in Fiji is attending a three-month course in Australia on the administration of agriculture. He left Fiji on September 2.

The course includes observational tours of the Murrumbidgee irrigation area and the Wagga district in New South Wales. The cost of Mr.

Walker’s training is being met by Australia’s South Pacific Aid Pro gramme.

Mr. P. L. Rhodes, senior research officer in Fiji’s Department of Agri culture, attended a conference of the Food and Agriculture Organisation International Rice Commission at Kandy, Ceylon, in September. He pre sented two papers on rice research in Fiji.

Another senior research officer, Mr. P. G, Thompson, from the Agri cultural Station at Sigatoka, visited New Delhi in India during Sep tember to investigate new varieties of high-yield sorghum. The sorghum, developed by the Rockerfeller Found ation, can yield two tons of grain per acre. Hybrids being tested in Fiji have shown yields of one ton an acre.

Mr. Thompson also visited Aus tralia for discussions with the Bread Research Institute on the question of milling sorghum, which has been found to be an acceptable substitute to wheat sharps in roti making. • Archbishop Serio Pignedoli, one of the most important men in the Vatican, observed the work of the Roman Catholic Church in Fiji and other Pacific islands in September, during his extensive tour of South- East Asia and the Pacific, The Archbishop, 58, is secretary of the Congregation for the Evan gelisation of the Peoples. He has been a close associate of Pope Paul for many years. After Fiji, his next stop was at Tahiti. • Mr. Ben Christian, the head of the world’s smallest civil service—

on Pitcairn Island—was due in Suva in October for a three-month course in administration and accounting at the South Pacific Office, which is the administrative centre for Pitcairn affairs. • Mr. K. E. Miles, a former Postmaster-General in Zambia, arrived in Suva last month to take up his new appointment as Post master-General in Fiji. He succeeded Mr. W. G. Cruickshank, who retired early this year. Mr. Miles, who is married with two daughters, began his career in 1935 when he joined the British Post Office as telephone traffic superintendent at Southamp ton. In 1955, he was appointed assistant controller of telecommunica tions in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, was promoted to deputy-controller in 1958 and to con troller in 1962. The following year he became Postmaster-General in Northern Rhodesia and he continued in this post when Rhodesia became the Republic of Zambia on becoming independent in 1964. He left Zambia last year. • Mr, Edward Engledow, who has had extensive experience as a newspaper writer and government in formation officer in Guam, the US Trust Territory and Hawaii, has taken up a two-year appointment as In formation Officer in Pago Pago for the Government of American Samoa. • Mr. K. R. McKinnon, Papua- New Guinea’s Director of Education, was to travel to the United States in September on a Carnegie Corpora tion travel grant to study educa tional planning in theory and practice in the US and Africa.

• In a colourful ceremony Rarotonga, Cook Islands, recei Miss Freda Story, daughter of Le lative Assembly Speaker, Mrs.

Story and the town’s “miracle m technician Fred Story, married Tepou Boaza, a member of the C Islands police force and Atiu’s A (chiefly) family. • Recent marriages in the I* Hebrides have included Mr. Ai Teora, of Malekula, to Miss H< Albert, of Mele; Mr. Maxime Cai of Erakor, to Miss Agnes Lamoure? of Mele, and Mr. Jacques Carlol Miss Pinaues Waoute, of Erakor. • Muslim missionary Maulana Hussein Akhtar, 72, is spending months in Fiji as the guest of the Muslim League. He is giving U on Islam at mosques throughout colony. Maulana Akhtar, who secretary of the Majlis Taha Khatme-Nabuwat Jamaat for training of missionaries at Mull Pakistan, has visited India, Ker Uganda, Tanzania, Iran, Iraq : England during his mission journeys. • Cannery management char in American Samoa include the 5 tember arrival of the new gem manager of Van Camp, Mr. I Gene Kreps, of California, and departure later this year of ] Vernon Wright, manager of i cannery since 1964. Mr. Wright ; his wife are to take up other pointments with Van Camp’s par company, Ralston Purina, at C fornia. • New Zealander Mr. R.

Twentyman is settling in as the r chief manager of the Bank of IS Zealand in Fiji, succeeding Mr.

J. M. Bacon, who is due for p retirement leave. Mr. Twentym whose wife accompanied him to P joined the bank in 1926 at Pahiatua branch. He has h managerial positions at the H Street, Auckland, Te Aro, Welling! and Palmerston North branches.

One of the cutest girls at recent social night of t[?] Islanders Association of Sydney was Miss Faye Smith, forme of Suva, who plans to live Sydney. Miss Smith, who w[?] a nurse before she became stenographer for a Sydney fir[?] has also been doing some da[?] ing for a big Sydney retail sto[?] Photo: Jim Fairborn.

Popular Bougainville identity Wong You recently took a vacation in the Far East his first visit to the area for 50 years.

He is photographed here with his wife in Hong Kong, by Port Moresby identity and old friend, C. H. Meen.

People In Pictures

Nemesio Toitoka and Tipoulisio Tuhimutu, fire dancers from the Wallis Islands, entertain participants at a recent seminar on New Caledonia organised by UTA and Qantas.

During a recent visit to Minnesota, USA, Bishop George Ambo of New Guinea meets Pastor Fred Scherle and his wife. Pastor Scherle is a New Guinea oldhand.

Remy and Janet Frouin leaving the Delegates Office Vila, New Hebrides, recently after their wedding. Janey is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reece Discombe

New Guinea oldhand Mr. "Maty" Gilbert Renton, formerly of Rabaul, recently made a sentimental journey to the territory.

Chin H. Meen took this picture in Port

Moresby.

This group of NZ scouts recently spent 10 days in Tonga, during which time they toured villages on foot, attended three feasts, visited the palace and presented the King with gifts. They thought it was marvellous.—Photo: August Hettig.

AT A RECENT Islanders Association of Sydney social night: Top, Mr. and Mrs. Tim Lel[?] formerly of Suva. Middle, Mr. and Mrs. Nesbi[?] Bentley, who now live in Victoria, where M[?] Bentley runs a small farm. Below, Elizabet Benz (left) and Rita Nielson, formerly of Rotuma[?] Pictures by Jim Fairburn

Above, New Zealander Miss Marion Anderson has become the first woman in Fiji to fly solo. Marion is a teacher at the Ratu Sukuna Memorial School. Left, Atu Waqa, 23, an apprentice engineer with Fiji Airways, has become the first Fijian to fly solo in the colony.

Pictures: Chandra Pa.

bove, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Rounds, formerly of Suva and now living in Sydney, at a recent Islanders Association [?]f Sydney social night. Below, the Rev. John Su, formerly [?]f Rabaul, now of Hong Kong, recently revisited P-NG. hin H. Meen's picture shows him at Jackson Airport with Mrs. Danny Seeto.

Above, Mrs, Clem Palmer (left), formerly of Suva, and Talei McCaig, formerly of Savosavu, Fiji, recently attended a social night of the Islanders Association of Sydney. Both have now settled in Sydney.

Above, Constable Nelson Ratu, of the Solomon Islands Police Force, recently made a dramatic arrest—at sea. A man had been prowling in the hospital grounds at Honiara when he was seen by Ratu. He ran away and dived into the sea, and was followed by the constable (a member of the Police Wafer Polo Team). Ratu made his arrest after following the man well out to sea in an area notorious for sharks. The man was suffering from cramp, and Ratu had to assist him ashore. Picture: Ted Marriott.