People

• Mr. George Clarke, a NG old hand and an employee of Burns Philp for about 40 years, has left Madang to retire in Australia. He joined BP’s in 1922 and from 1931 to 1937 served as purser in BP steamers; in 1938 he moved to Rabaul for BP’s and two years later he joined the AIF.

After six years’ military service he returned to Rabaul and rebuilt the company’s business. He was posted to Madang as manager in 1962. • Mr. R. G. Lynch, a New Zea lander, was to leave NZ in October for Tarawa, GEIC, for a two-year appointment as chief accountant for the Wholesale Society. He will be ac companied by his wife and their two sons. Mr. Lynch succeeds Mr. K. G.

Ussher, who declined to renew his contract after the company’s general manager, Mr. W. J. Kirkby-Jones, resigned in June following recom mendations by the society’s board of directors (PIM, Aug., p. 26). • Mr. V. J. Andersen, Resident Commissioner of the GEIC, and Mr.

C. P. North-Coombes, the GEIC’s Attorney-General, were to leave Tarawa on October 21 for talks in London on Ocean Island’s phosphate industry. In London, the two will be joined by Te Reuben K. Uatioa, the colony’s Chief Elected Member.

Representatives from the Banabans of Rabi, Fiji, will also attend the talks (the Banabans are the former residents of Ocean Island), • After 22 years in the administra tion of the US Trust Territory, Mr.

Robert Halvorsen has retired, and is now expected to live with his family on Ponape, Caroline Islands. Mr.

Halvorsen was first sent to Ponape in 1946 as a Native Affairs Officer; in 1955 he became district administrator for Yap and later for Truk. He returned to Ponape in 1964 as DC for that district and served there until his retirement this year. • Viliame Rasigatale Raikuna— known as “Bill” to the thousands of tourists he welcomed to Fiji during five years as senior tourist officer for the Fiji Visitors Bureau—is now ensconced in the bureau’s new office in Auckland. It opened on October 1.

Mr. Raikuna, 44, took his wife, Vosita, his son, three daughters and his 18-year-old niece with him to New Zealand, where he will spend

at least two years as manager of the Auckland office, which is in the Tower Block, Canterbury Arcade, High Street, Bill Raikuna is a much-travelled man, having been in the wartime Royal Fiji Naval Volunteer Reserve and the merchant navy. • Te Naboua Ratieta, the senior executive officer in the GEIC’s Resident Commissioner’s office, Tarawa, won the vacant seat of Marakei in the colony’s House of Representatives following by-election voting in late September. ® After nearly 32 years in educa tion in Fiji, New Zealander Mr. Max Bay retired from the field in mid- October. He had held the position of Deputy Director of Education since 1963. But Mr. Bay isn’t enjoy ing a well-earned rest —he took up anew office appointment with Car penters Fiji Ltd. the next day. He and his wife plan to continue living in Fiji.

Mr. Bay moved to Fiji in 1937 and has played an important role in the development of the colony’s education facilities. His past appoint ments include being headmaster of two schools, principal for 12 months of the Nasinu Training college, an

education officer, a member of tJ 1955 Committee on Agricultui Education and Chief Inspector Schools. As well as his distinguish! record in education, Mr. Bay hi been active in sporting circles. B has represented Fiji in hockey ai bowls. He is a strong support of Junior and Senior Young Farr ers’ Clubs and the Student Farrm Scheme. • Mr. Justice Ronald Kna Mawer, Puisne Judge in Fiji sim 1966, has been appointed Chi Justice of both Tonga and Naur He replaces Mr. Justice Cliffo« Hammett, Chief Justice of Tonj since 1956. • Captain O. L. Owen has be* appointed general manager of tl Bank Line (Australasia) Pty. Ltd. I succeeds Captain W. M. Reade, wl died in Sydney on June 16, aged t (P/M, July, p. 131). • John Filei, the first Solomc Islander to be awarded the certificai of master (Solomons) and mai (Pacific Islands), has been appoint® captain of the Melanesian Mission touring vessel Southern Cross. File who has been in the church’s marii service for 12 years, succee* Captain C. F. Healy, who resigned • Dr. George Hardie Mennie, ♦ Scotland, will serve a three-ye: term in the Pacific Islands as medical and health officer for tH South Pacific Health Service. D Mennie, whose wife is a nurse ar midwife, will leave London in mu November to begin his service i Fiji. His area includes Tonga, tB Solomon Islands, the Gilbert an Ellice Islands, the New Hebride Western Samoa, the Cook Islandl Niue and the Tokelau Islands.

Dr. Mennie went into genen practice in April this year. Befoi that he was senior house officer i Stobhill General Hospital, Glasgow He studied at Aberdeen Universit Medical School. • Mr. Daniel Tufui, Tonga'j Crown Solicitor, left Tonga on Sep tember 28 for a legal course ii London, to be followed by a perior with various legal authorities. Th first Tongan to occupy this positio* in the kingdom, Mr, Tufui has ai Australian wife, Jean. Anothe Tongan, Mr. Tevita Tupou, will ao for Mr. Tufui. Mr. Tupou returnee from London himself after a studl course a week before Mr. Tufui lef: (More personals on p. 151)

Mr. Jim MacGregor-Dowsett, long-time New Guinea planter (he went to NG in World War I and stayed until the end of World War II) was back in NG re cently with a party of war veterans com memorating the 25th anniversary of the recapture of Lae. He now lives in Geelong. Victoria. Chin H. Meen took the

photograph in Port Moresby.

• Four pretty faces smiled for "Fiji Times" photographer Chandra Pal's camera after Helena Reiher (centre) was crowned Miss Hibiscus in September. On her left is Mary Fong, who came second, and on her right is third place winner, Elenoa Cuanilawa. In front is petite Paula Singh, this year's Charity Queen. Between the four of them, the girls won 78 prizes—the best, of course, being a £100 cheque for Helena and a trip to Australia by Pan American Airways, returning via Noumea by Matson Lines. Helena is the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Reiher, of Abemama, Gilbert Islands.

Cpl. Tovill, of Rabaul, and Sgt. K. Morcom, of Adelaide, supervise the building of a sports pavilion at Menyamya, P.NG.

Mr. S. D. Wilson, new Resident Commissioner on Niue. He succeeds Mr. L. A. Shanks.

Left, a proud Simon Kaumi, Deputy Chief Electoral Officer in P-NG, with his son, Simon Jnr. Earlier this year Mr. Kaumi was in New York where he attended a session of the UN.

Right, Sa'olotoga Lolesi, Economic Dev elopment Officer of Western Samoa, relaxes between seminars at this year's general course at the Asian Institute, Bangkok.

[?]e, George Ellis, of the Cook Islands, is a karate black belt, 1st dan. (right) he trains with New Zealander John Jarvis. Above right, tea [?] in Fiji—through the lens of Rob Wright's camera. Below right, [?] Hazelman. AIR NZ's entrant in the 1968 International Air Hostess [?] Below, Commodore of the P&O Fleet C. Edgecombe and Miss Hibiscus entrants on the bridge of the "Oriana" in Suva.

I After his initial introduction Acting Bursar at the University the South Pacific for four months tier this year, Mr. A. Knox has r taken up his full appointment Bursar of Fiji’s developing uni jity. Formerly Bursar of the nadu Bello University in Northern eria, he has had extensive ex ence in university administration.

Ir. Hari Ram, Education Officer i the Department of Education, a, has been appointed Assistant istrar. Mr. Ram, formerly a >ndary school teacher in Fiji, is a helor of Science graduate from University of Delhi. » American Samoa’s former Gov >r, 58-year-old H. Rex Lee, has i appointed a member of the US cral Communications Commis for a period of seven years. He es his current post as an assistant inistrator with the Agency for rnational Development, to take his new job on the seven-man mission.

Officially, attractive Betty id’s job is “assistant to the ager”, but to the thousands of tiers to American Samoa’s new d station WUV she is the ter y’s Number One disc jockey. of five Samoan employees at V (“We love to listen to WUV,” oan children say), Betty an ices most records on WUV. She at Fagaalu village, Tutuila, not from WUV’s smart new recording re near Leone. Her boss, State • Vern Williams, often records oan singsongs for broadcasting WUV. He arrived in Pago Pago er this year on a one-year con with the Government of Ameri- Samoa.

Mr. Manasa Koroi Vatuloka, a jar-old Fijian schoolteacher, was itly presented with the Mount in Medal by the Governor of Sir Derek Jakeway, for rescuing idian woman and two girls from ming. Vatuloka swam through dy water in a Fiji river to find i. They were unconscious but revived by artificial respiration.

Mountbatten Medal is awarded ic Royal Life Saving Society for •est rescue of the year—anywhere lie world—by a qualified life- American Samoa’s police chief, f Tu’ufuli, has plenty of problems

;se days with small burglaries on increase around Pago Pago and eral road fatalities already this ir. But perhaps his major head le is coping with Tutuila’s spiral l number of buses. He told PIM ently that were too many buses tund (about 75) for the number would-be passengers. The Samoan ned and run buses, many nothing re than rebuilt utilities, sometimes 1 up chasing pedestrians along the ds to win a new customer, he said, j solution? “Well, Pago Pago is ig and deep bay,” he said. » Mr. H. H. Hendon, managing ctor of Fiji Enterprises Pty. Ltd., le a recent business trip to Fiji examine latest trends in tourism, is reported to be interested in :ing hotel investments in the my. Fiji Enterprises operates an and Centre” in Spit Road, ;man, a Sydney suburb. The centre tides a Fiji Restaurant. i Viliame Liga, holder of the Fiji lin record of 236 i ft, is the ny’s sole representative at the mpic Games in Mexico City. He previously represented Fiji at one iipic and two Commonwealth les.

Mr, Rudy Ritcher, the Pago a Intercontinental Hotel’s popular ager, is a sailing enthusiast and never he has a spare moment ich isn’t often these days with ness better than ever) he nips n the hotel’s tiny skiff. The skiff, :h is also available to hotel ts, is housed near the hotel’s 1 private beach. Mr. Ritcher tells le time, when unpredictable winds led him halfway across Pago ) Bay. Ever since, he has been in labit of warning would-be sailors it Pago’s winds.

Nimilote Verebasaga, an en :r with Fiji Airways, has become first local employee to obtain a licence in aircraft maintenance leering. Nimilote, who comes Nunivaivai Village at Tailevu, n engineering when he was 17 was in charge of maintaining merating plant at the Fulton ionary College. He joined Fiji ays in 1953 and recently passed British Air Registration Board 748 airframe licence examina conducted by the Department transport and Civil Aviation, He and two other Fiji Airways mtices —R. Southey and A. dale —will attend the Hawker “ley Aviation Technical School lanchester, England, and after s a course with Rolls-Royce.