People

• New managing director of the New Guinea Co. Ltd. and Boroko Motors, with headquarters in Port Moresby, is Mr. Eric John Gough (pictured), who has been a director of Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva, for the past 10 years. He left Fiji in February for leave before taking up the new appointment.

Mr. Gough, who’ll be accompanied by his wife, obtained an MA in philosophy, politics and economics at Magdalen College, Oxford, before going to Fiji in 1948 to join Morris Hedstrom Ltd. At the time his new position was announced, he held several public offices in Fiji—includ ing that of president of the Fiji Em ployers’ Consultative Association and vice-president of the Suva Chamber of Commerce. • New Guinean doctor, Dr. Jack Onno, has left Port Moresby to become Overseas Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. This appointment—for one year—is made annually and is intended mainly for Asian and Pacific Islands medical practitioners.

It aims at giving them experience in a wider field of medicine than is available in their home areas.

At the end of his appointment in Melbourne, Dr. Onno is expected to go on to London and take a diploma course at the London School of Tropical Medicine.

Dr. Onno, who comes from Kila Kila village, in the Central District of Papua and New Guinea, has been working as a Medical Registrar at Port Moresby General Hospital. He received his medical training at the Central Medical School, Suva, and graduated in 1960. • Mr. Sam (Toto) Koua, the Raiatea manager of RAI, the French inter-island airline, has succeeded Mr.

Marcel Hart as a representative of the lies sous le Vent in French Polynesia’s Territorial Assembly. Mr.

Hart, who was killed in a bulldozer accident on January 27 was for some time a member of the Union Tahitienne Democratique, one of the conservative minority parties in the Assembly.

In the 1967 Assembly elections, Mr. Koua was third on a list of UTD candidates headed by Mr. Hart. As the first two candidates on that list were elected, Mr. Koua, under the local electoral rules, became the

automatic choice in the event of a vacancy. Incidentally, the second candidate, Mr Taratua Teriirere, has switched allegiance from the UTD to the radical Sanford-Teariki coali tion since his election. • After 12 years spent in the Pacific (mainly in Papua-New Guinea), Mr. Bill Granger in Feb ruary gave up his post as Programme Director (Economic), with the South Pacific Commission, Noumea.

During his three years in Noumea he visited most territories of the South Pacific and also called on many UN agencies to seek their co operation in assisting Islanders.

Mr. Granger will continue his in terest in the Pacific, as he joins the Australian Department of External Territories, in Canberra. His suc cessor, arriving at the end of March, is Mr. Alan Harris, Assistant Secretary in the Australian Treasury Department. He will take his wife and four daughters to Noumea. • Miss Dome Nuyten, Dutch/ Australian runner-up in Sydney’s “Miss International Quest”, recently had her prize winning holiday in Noumea.

The New Caledonian newspapers found her a delightful ambassador for her sponsor the International Centre, at 82 Elizabeth Street, Syd ney, which operates a home host scheme, introducing overseas visitors to Australian families of similar interests. The centre is operated on a

voluntary basis, with support from Rotary, Lions, Apex and the Jaycees, to help make the stay of overseas visitors more pleasant in Sydney. • Who’s in the running to take over the job of Resident Commis sioner of the GEIC when Mr. Val Andersen retires in June? At present, joint favourites are Mr. Derek Cud more, Assistant Resident Commis sioner of the GEIC, and Mr. M. M.

Townsend, Assistant Resident Com missioner in the New Hebrides, who has worked in the GEIC. Several names in the Western Pacific High Commission’s Honiara offices have also been mentioned. • Mr. John Beach has been ap pointed deputy managing director of the Papua and New Guinea Develop ment Bank. Mr. Beach, who has been seconded from the Reserve Bank of Australia, will serve with the Development Bank for two years.

Mr. Beach will join the Board of the Development Bank which con sists of the chairman, Mr. K. G.

Crellin, the Treasurer of Papua and New Guinea in an ex officio capacity and nine other members. To the end of last year the Bank had advanced nearly $6 million since it began operations in July, 1967. • Emeritus Professor P. H.

Karmel, C.8.E., Ph.D. has been ap pointed Chancellor of the University of Papua and New Guinea. He has been closely involved with the University since its inception as chairman of the University’s Interim Council.

Professor Karmel is Vice Chan cellor of the Flinders University of South Australia. Before that, he was Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide for 15 years. • Isa Paeniu, of the GEIC’s Colony and Information Notes staff, made his first trip overseas in January—to Australia. This tall and thoughtful Ellice Islander didn’t have a lot of difficulty finding his way around Sydney, although he admitted, in late February, “I still get lost now and then”. Isa was to leave Sydney for Canberra in early March to write for an Australian External Territories Department magazine. • Mrs. Joyce Balds, a painter from the Sydney suburb of Punchbowl, will make a trip to both Samoas in mid-March to look for additional picture subjects. Her paintings of Norfolk Island, Fiji and New Cale donia have sold in Australia and over seas for up to $5O. Mrs. Balds regularly travels through the Pacific Islands.

Eric John Gough.

Above, P-NG Women's Reserve Constables Geua Sisia, Boio Asi, and Loa Lohio pictured with the Administrator, Mr. D. O. Hay, after a passing out parade at Ela Beach Oval, Port Moresby, in February. Below, Anne Napa, nee Anne Gillette of England, smiles as she leaves the Vila Presbyterian Church with husband John Napa in December. Anne went to the New Hebrides as a VSO teacher. She is the first European woman officially to have married a New Hebridean. This picture by Reece Discombe.

Taufa Tatafu, seated, strums a double guitar of his own making with a friend in Nukualofa. The picture was taken by August Hettig.

Orientation time is a busy time for Fiji's new Governor and his Lady. In recent weeks Sir Robert and Lady Foster have been caught up in a hectic round of inspections, receptions and meetings held by all the associations, organisa tions and societies they're expected to patronise.

Above, Sir Robert, nearest the camera, inspects equipment at the Fisheries Department, Lami.

Picture by Chandra Pal.

Above, Indian children march outside the Talaiya Muslim School, Ba, Fiji, in February, carrying signs accusing the Fiji Muslim League of "Hitlerism".

The children, on their parents' instruction, were protesting in sympathy with pupils of the Ba Muslim School, who staged a four-day walk-out after one of their teachers, Mr. H. I. Sidat, was dismissed by the Fiji Muslim League after refusing a transfer to a Muslim School at Lautoka. Pupils re turned to school after their parents had passed a vote of no confidence in office bearers of the League's Ba branch. At last report it looked as though Mr. Sidat would be reinstated.

Left, new students en rolling at the University of the South Pacific, in Suva, being welcomed in February by the Vice- Chancellor, Dr. C. C.

Aikman. He warned them that one of the greatest handicaps most of them would have to ovecome was the fact that English was not their native language.

Above, the Chief Minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, about to unveil a memorial to the late Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna —the first Fijian Chief to be made a Knight— in February. The memorial, in the form of a bronze portrait set on the side of a pillar of rock hewn from the Vatakoula gold mines, is in Sukuna Park, Suva.

The famous statesman died on May 30, 1958, at the age of 70 while travelling to England in the "Arcadia" for a holiday.

Above, Japan's Consul-General to Australia, Mr. S. Tanetani (left), and Mr.

Mcmom Yamada, head of Japan's Buddist Church, exchange traditional bows of greeting when they met unexpectedly at Port Moresby airport recently.

Mr. Yamada and his party were in the territory for the dedication of a memorial at Wewak to the war dead of Japan, Australia, New Guinea and the US. The memorial—eight large granite stones —was brought from Japan by a former soldier, Mr. Tadashi Nishigaki.

Above, was it oil that Fiji's Minister for Labour, Ratu Edward Cakobau (left), and his nephew King Taufa'ahau of Tonga were discussing during the King's 45-minute stop-over at Nausori Air port in February? The Tongan Royal party called into Fiji while returning home after a visit to Britain and the United States. Picture by Stan Ritova. Below, Christina, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Basil Hayes of Port Moresby, smiles for Chin H. Meen's camera, after her marriage to Barry, only son of Mr. and Mrs. K. Riordan, of Malaney, Qld., at the Anglican Cathedral, Port

Moresby.

P-Ng's Booming

Highlands

The drone of huge caterpillars (above) can be heard in many parts of P-NG's Highlands today as men work to put all weather roads through the area. At pre sent a heavy-duty road is being built between Mount Hagen and Mendi—and more roads are on the way. Left, the busy scene in a Mount Hagen tea processing factory as local farmers un load their tea. According to W. R. Car penter and Co. Ltd. (see story opposite), there is going to be a lot more action— with tea and other products—in P-NG's

booming Highlands.