People

• A surveyor employed by the outh Pacific Sugar Mills, Mr. Uday ingh, and his wife are currently on three-month tour of Australia and idia for the dual purpose of study ig sugar cane breeding and low 3st housing developments. By ar mgement with the Corporations of ombay and Delhi, Mr. Singh—who based at the Lautoka mill in Fiji— ill study methods of land valuation >r rating, taxing and other purposes, [e will visit the Sugar Research istitute in Delhi and sugar mills in torthern and Southern India.

After a brief holiday at Kashmir lr. and Mrs. Singh will visit Sydney ► attend the Fifth Pan Pacific Con •ess for Real Estate Valuers and ppraisers, to be held under the jspices of the Commonwealth istitute of Valuers—of which Mr. ingh is a corporate member. They re due to return to Fiji at the end F April. • Mr. Don Taylor, editorial irector of the London journal, New 'ommonwealth, spent five days in iji recently. He met government linisters, heads of government apartments and leading figures in smmerce and industry. • Tarawa’s friendly and practical ishop Pierre Guichet these days can a seen whizzing up and down the luthern reaches of the atoll in a aw Morris 1800—at no mean speed, then Bishop Guichet still won’t imit he prefers the GEIC to his old anting ground Papua where he ;rved for 12 years before moving > Tarawa in 1961. One of his best loresby mates, incidentally, remains ercy Chatterton. • Dr. Ako Toua is a Motuan from [anuabada, Port Moresby, who at the IQ of 34, is Regional Medical Officer )r the Highlands Region of P-NG. [e is based at Goroka, where a brand ew $2-million hospital was opened i December. Dr. Toua qualified at le Fiji School of Medicine in 1962, tid later completed a post-graduate 3urse in health education at the Iniversity of London. Married to Fijian, he has two small sons. • Anton Meyer, a former Tarawa ader, these days lives with his randchildren in a small house on a ttle islet opposite Eita Village, arawa. Anton, 71, is especially

proud of two salt-water dams he h built for catching fish. His fathe Yohan, a Hamburg-born trade arrived in the Marshall Islands in tl 1880’s. • Tarawa’s irrepressible Hen Schutz (one half of the Gilbert ai Ellice Islands’ biggest private ente prise company, Schutz and Wilde is one of the directors of an inve; ment company recently registered Suva called Lami Investments Lt Incidentally, Henri has plans to bui a small hotel on Abemama with tl atoll’s High Chief Paul Tokatake. • Two appointments have bei made to the Research Division of tl Department of Agriculture, Fiji. M George Levick has been appoint! horticulturist and Mr. lan Partrid has been appointed research office Mr. Levick will be working at tl Agricultural Station at Nacocolev Sigatoka, and Mr. Partridge has bei posted to Koronivia Research Static and will also be in charge of Dobi levu Station. • Six ST2S scholarships have be< awarded by the Rotary Club Tonga and the Rotary Club of Mat mata, New Zealand, to seconda school pupils in Tonga. The schola ships, which cover the cost of scho fees and text books for students i tending to sit for the New Zealai School Certificate, went to: Siosi Fa’olu, Tonga High School; Kitioi Maile, Liahona; latili Loloa, 5 Mary’s High School; Ane Fifit Queen Salote College; Tevita Kaufu; St. Andrews; and Sesilia Loloa, 5 Josephs. ® The Principal of the Vud Agricultural College, P-NG, Mr.

P. Saville, has been awarded a Churd hill scholarship to undertake a year post graduate training in Agricultu Extension at Reading University : Britain. Mr. Saville is expected l leave the territory for Britain i July.

Five other people from the ten tory have attended similar coursi previously at Queensland Universit but Mr. Seville will be the first 1 undertake this course at Readir University. During the course, M Saville will study farm managemen social psychology and rural sociolog • Mr. R. S. Austin, gener; manager of the NZ Tourist an Publicity Department, has bee elected president of the Pacific Are Travel Association. Next annual Coi ference of PATA should be held s Auckland in April, 1970.