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Captain J. D. Campbell, Mbe,

is Commissioner of Scouts for the Cook Islands and has been re sident in Rarotonga for over 40 years.

He led the Cook Islands contingent of scouts to the National Jamboree at Christchurch, NZ, in January. In the early days of scouting, he was awarded the Silver Wolf for services “of an exceptional character” by his personal friend, Lord Baden-Powell.

In 1968, he was awarded New Zea land’s highest scouting honour, the Silver Tui.

'Hie Cook Islands takes scouting seriously and most of its prominent citizens, including Premier Albert Henry, were scouts at some time in their lives. The NZ Jamboree was regarded as an opportunity for the Cook Islands to issue another new set of stamps—seven of them, all in five-colour photogravure and all with scouting motifs.

O One of the chief hopes this year of Mr. Robert Goodrich, who runs the Gilberts’ Church of God from his mission centre at Eita, Tarawa, is to set up a small school on Abaiang and extend his mission’s operations on Nonouti. Mr. Goodrich, with this attractive wife, Barbara and their two daughters, Melody and Joy, arrived at Eita in February, 1968, for a four-year term. • Paul Brown, manager of Guadal canal Plains Ltd., paid a three-week visit to Sydney in January talking Solomon developments to Australian businessmen. A director of the BSIP’s new airline, Solair, he re turned to Honiara in late January with Mr. Ken Dalrymple-Hay, chair man of GPL, who has been in Syd ney for about 12 months recovering from several operations. • Mr. Ray Harberd, the GEIC’s senior agricultural officer, who spends most of his time these days ponder ing what will grow in the colony besides coconuts, has come across some information which is bugging him. Apparently, in the cattleless colony a wild herd of cows flourished on Niulakita, a tiny Ellice atoll, until a few years ago, when they vanished.

Can any readers explain? • The Rev. J. B. H. Robson,

who arrived in Fiji from Australia in 1952, has left the colony to take up a new Australian appointment with the Methodist Church in the Western District of the Victorian and Tasmanian Conference. • The District Medical Officer for the West Sepik District of P-NG, Dr. Tom Gaunede, was to leave the territory in January to study leprosy in Burma, India and the Philippines on a WHO fellowship. Dr. Gaunede, a graduate of Fiji School of Medicine, was expected to be away from the territory for three months. • Mr. J. Jones has been appointed Chief of Division for Secondary Education in P-NG. He replaces Miss Barbara McLachlan who retired re cently. Mr. Jones, who arrived in the territory as a teacher 11 years ago, was previously Inspector of Secondary Schools with the P-NG Department of Education. • Rev. Rex Matthews, associate Minister of the Nauruan Protestant Church since November, 1965, has returned to Sydney. He is taking up a new post in the field of education.

The Matthews are happy to be reunited with three of their four children who are in school in Sydney.

The fourth, Rhondda, 4, was with them in Nauru. • Tebanga Village “choir” of Abemama, Gilbert Islands, recently made a week-long stay at nearby Kuria atoll. Led by Abemama’s High Chief, Paul Tekinaite Tokatake, the “choir”, consisting of about 30 Tebangan Village singers and dancers, travelled to Kuria by Gilbertese canoes. At Kuria, all stayed with

Bingatake, a former DC of the Phoenix Islands. Both Paul and Bingatake are descendants of Abe mama’s Binoka royal family. 9 Mr. Per J. D. Tobiesen, a United Nation’s economist, has joined the staff of the Central Planning Office of Fiji’s Ministry of Finance as a project evaluation specialist. Mr.

Tobiesen, 46, obtained his Master’s Degree in Economics at Oslo Uni versity in 1947. His wife and three children accompanied him to Fiji. • The Rev. Brian Ranford, who, with his wife Margaret, put in eight years’ service with the-then London Missionary Society in the Ellice Islands before being transferred to Tarawa just over a year ago, admits he’s never found his sealegs.

Mr. Ranford travelled to all the atolls of Ellice many times in the mission ship John Williams VII and really copped some “blows”. These days he’s far happier—when there is time—working on the grammar of the Ellice language that’s occupied him for the past five years. • Two new members have been appointed to the BSIP Executive Council by the High Commissioner.

They are Mr. David Kausimae, Legislative Council member for South Malaita, and Mr. Jack Campbell, LegCo member for Makira-Ulawa.

These two new appointments are to replace Mr. M. Kelesi (North East Malaita) and Mr. B. Devesi (North Guadalcanal), who have resigned from Exco. Mr. W. D. Ramsay (Honiara) and Mr. G. Siama (North Western Solomons) have been re appointed to the Executive Council for 1969. Mr. W. A. Wright, The Acting Secretary for Protectorate Affairs, has been appointed a tem porary public service member of LegCo and a temporary member of the Executive Council during the absence on leave of Mr. Roy Davies. • Nauru has two new university graduates. Miss Margaret Jacob has graduated in Arts from the Austra lian National University and Mr.

Kinza Clodumar has graduated in Economics at the same university. • Mr. R. G. (Robby) Roberts, now a top hand in the GEIC’s Secretariat at Bairiki, Tarawa, likes nothing better than a good swim off one of the atoll's reefside beaches or a yap about the colony's old traders or Gilbertese kings. A con firmed bachelor, NZ-born Robby has put in 22-odd years in the GEIC; he now can churn out more historical anecdotes than any other resident.

Captain Campbell

• Gilbertese will sing, dance or strum a guitar at the drop of a hat.

As a result it didn't take a lot of persuading to get Misses Terebeih Kaiaman, 20 (left), and Tiroko Nawaia, 23, of Tarawa's Otintai Hotel, to grab, respectively, a Ukelele and a guitar to pose for a PIM staff writer who happened to be passing.

Above; Paulus Arek (bearded) and John Maneke, members of the P-NG House of Assembly, in Canberra in January on their way home from the UN and Africa. Above right: Wife of P-NG's Ministerial Member for Labour, Mrs. Toua Kapena, about to cut a ribbon to launch, in Port Moresby, Steamships Trading Co.'s latest coastal trader, the "Simon Ruiero". Below: Two students from W. Samoa, Fa'avaefou Malo (left) and Vasa Fa'amoe, smile after receiving English Language diplomas from the English Language Institute, Wellington, NZ. With them is Miss J.

Stewart, student officer, NZ Department of External Affairs. Below right: B. Chan, his wife (Rabaul) and Mrs. G. Seeto (Wewak) in Port Moresby. Mr. Chan recently organised a package tour to South-East Asia of 25 territory Chinese residents (photo: Chin H. Meen).

Above; NZ MP's in Rarotonga in December, left to right—Chief Judge Fraser (with umbrella), Mr. Pickering, Mrs. Fraser, Mr. A. R. Henry, Premier of the Cooks, Mr. Douglas, Mrs. Henry. Photo: Van Eijk and Meers. Below left: Mikaio Rorobuaka, a teacher from Tarawa, who has spent a year at the Teachers' Training College, Claremont, WA. With him is F. Davies, his course supervisor. Below; Sir Robert Foster, in one of his last functions as Western Pacific High Commissioner, accepts in Honiara 595 radios presented to the Solomons on behalf of the Founda tion of the Peoples of the South Pacific by Dr. J. McNamara (at left).

Above: Three newly-engaged couples celebrate at the Three-Mile Club, Port Moresby. They are, left to right—Steven Tam and Maree Mowley, Michael Sharkey and Tip Yin Ling, Jackie Freeman and Willie Luk. Below left: A recent wedding in Sydney between former New Guinea resident Martin Kerr, of Lowry Bay, Wellington, NZ, and Miss Marie Rugg, of Devon, England (left). The bridesmaid was Miss Anna McGlaughlan, of England, and the best man was New Guinea identity John Pasquarelli (right). Below right: At a recent Islanders' Association of Sydney social night, Ben Chandler of Suva, with Carol Day.