People

• Darwin journalist and author Douglas Lockwood in December be comes managing editor of P-NG’s South Pacific Post group in succession to Mr. Keith Mattingley, who is to return to the Melbourne office of the group’s owners, the Herald and Weekly Times. • Pastor J. R. James, a Seventh day Adventist missionary who worked in the New Hebrides from 1917 to 1930, returned to the Con dominium recently, touring Ambrym, Aoba and Malekula by foot before leaving for the Solomons and NG.

Pastor James is 73 and lives in the US. • Fijian Ruben Tawake, a roads foreman, will leave Malaita, BSIP. for Suva in December after 20 years in the Solomons—nine of them on Malaita. Mr, Tawake was president of the Auki Club and a keen golfer.

His wife, Seru, worked for the local Red Cross. • Stuart Dodds, airlines repre sentative of the Guadalcanal Travel Service since 1965, was recently married in Honiara to Miss Caroline Wheatley, a receptionist at the Hotel Mendana. • Mr. Frederick Fawcett-Kay and his wife have returned to the Solomons after an absence of four years in NZ. The couple have a 200-ton motor vessel Waiotahi and they intend to set up new coconut plantings on land they own on Noro Island in the Western District. They are also looking for work for their vessel and plan to build a wharf and house on Noro. • Dr. Charles Fox, celebrated Solomons missionary and author of several books about the Solomons, recently had his 90th birthday at his home at the Melanesian Mission, Taroaniara, Gela, off Guadalcanal.

He first joined the Melanesian Mission in 1902 and arrived at San Cristobal, Solomons, 60 years ago. • One of New Guinea’s best known coastal skippers, Captain Tom Boraga, retired in October after 44 years’ service with the Papuan Gov ernment and the P-NG Administra tion. Now 62, Captain Boraga will live in Hanuabada, Port Moresby.

He joined the coastal service as a seaman in 1924; in 1927 he was promoted to a senior sailor.

During World War II he captained a small vessel ferrying rations and

ammunition to forces on the NG mainland and the NG Islands. In 1948 he was appointed master of the motor vessel Minnetonka and then followed several years service at Samarai, Rabaul, Madang and other centres. • Marshall Islands District Administrator Dwight Heine, 49, a Marshallese, in December will be come Special Consultant-Legislative Liaison to the High Commissioner of the Trust Territory, Mr. William Norwood. Mr. Heine was selected for this role because of his broad experience in territorial administra tion, and most particularly because of his very significant role in the formation of the Congress of Micro nesia itself. Robert Law Jr. has been appointed Marshalls District Admin istrator. • The French High Commissioner in New Caledonia, Mr. Jean Risterucci, presided over a meeting in Noumea in late October of 26 mayors of the territory. It was the

first time the mayors had been as sembled together since a similar meeting was held 18 years ago.

The latest meeting gave the mayors; the opportunity to discuss common and particular problems fruitfully., It was seen by observers as a move by the French Government to pay more heed to the views of New Caledonian leaders, some of whom have been urging internal self-govern ment for the territory. • Mr. T. M. Ainsworth, who has had administrative experience foi Britain in Nigeria, Malaya, Sarawak and Aden and has worked in the GEIC since 1967, has replaced Mr Brian Weeks as District Commissions for Ocean Island. • The US Ambassador to Aus tralia, Mr. William H. Crook, stayec overnight on Norfolk Island ir November on his way to Antarctic by air. An informal dinner was given his party by the Administrator Air Commodore R. N. Dalkin, a Government House. • Mr. John Newbery arrived ii Western Samoa from England re cently on a United Nations Develop ment Programme. He was schedulec to work with a UNDP civil en gineering expert on the feasibility o: possible hydro-electric power project; in Western Samoa. • The Fiji Girl Guide Associa tion has appointed Miss Paulin Rakavono as colony trainer and Mrs Emali Kamarusi as first organising commissioner for the association From the start of the 1969 schoo year, both will begin full-time train ing of adult leaders of the Rangers Brownies and Guides. Mrs. Kamarusi who was colony trainer for fou years, will help to organise colony wide gatherings of leaders. Misi Rakavono’s work will include travel ling to outlying islands to help grou] leaders. • Matron B. M. Mulcahy, Papua New Guinea’s Principal Matron re tired from the territory in Novembe after 20 years’ service with th< Administration. After taking leavi she will live in Australia. • Changes are expected to b announced soon in the top commam of the Royal Papua-New Guine Constabulary. The Police Commis sioner, Mr. Robert Cole, reache retirement age on November 1, an the force is currently without Deputy Commissioner, following th resignation in August of Mr. A. C Erskine. Mr. Cole joined the P-NC Administration as a cadet patrc officer in 1938 and saw service i New Guinea in World War IT.

New Guinea oldhand Les Clout opened the New Guinea Services Bureau in Sydney In November for the Council of New Guinea Affairs. Mr. Clout retired as Chief of the Division of Lands in October after 33 years with the P-NG Admin istration. The Bureau —the first of its kind in Australia—will give information to Australians intending to visit the territory, and will assist New Guineans visiting Australia.

A Samoan maiden presents a lei to Ve'ehala of Tonga during a traditional Tongan kava ceremony honouring him at Hawaii's Polynesian Cultural Centre. ve'ehala, an adviser to the Tongan King on matters of culture, will serve as a Tongan cultural adviser to the centre.

Sir Derek Jakeway, until November Governor of Fiji (his re placement is Sir Robert Foster), shakes hands with Mr. M.

Singh, of India's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while Mr. Jai Sukhlal Hathi, India's Minister for Labour, Employment and Rehabilitation looks on. Mr. Hathi and Mr. Singh made a four day goodwill tour of Fiji in November.

At a recent dinner of the Port Moresby branch of the Country Women's Association (left to right): Mrs. Warren, CWA Port Moresby branch president; Mrs. Martin, territorial president of the CWA; Mrs. Houghton, CWA's inter national officer; and Mrs. Rana, wife of the UN representative in P-NG.

Pte. Win holds a cassowary, new mascot of the Pacific Island Regiment at Moem, Wewak, while WOI Manli Rosi and Lt.-Co E. M. McCormick, commanding officer at Moem. look on.

Dental assistant, Simon Pranis, concentrates on a patient at Angau Memorial Hospital, Lae.

tionally, music lessons are loathed by children, but these New Guinea sters, at Marianville College, Bomana, Port Moresby, seem to be enjoying themselves.

Three ex-Fiji girls, now settled in Sydney, are (left to Misses Jeanette Powell, Jean Eyre and Brenda Newcombe- All were at a recent Islanders Association of Sydney night. Bottom: Also at the social night were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith, formerly of Suva.

Mr. E. M. Luamanuvae, a member of the three-man Public Service Commission in Western Samoa, at a recent meeting of the New Zealand State Services Com mission.

The jungles of Fiji—the one in the photograph is just a stone's throw from the Queen's Road—provided tough training ground in November for the soldiers of the 1st 7th and 2nd 7th Queens Own Gurkha Rifles. The detachment of 101 Gurkha soldiers from Hong Kong spent four weeks of jungle training in Fiji.

It's a long, long way to Panguna (bottom), 2,000 ft up in the copper-rich Bougainville moun tains, as the men who have trucked equipment to that CRA base camp know. Until the road (left) was completed, men, equip ment and supplies had to be air lifted by helicopter from the coast. It's been hard work prov ing Panguna's copper and gold deposits, and now that they have been proved there has arrived a time of waiting. Will CRA go ahead with its $A250 million de velopment plan for Bougainville?

The answer will not be known until next year. See story at right.