People

• Mr. N. H. Fisher, a geologist for the New Guinea Administration in the 1930’5, has recently been pro moted from assistant director to director of the geological branch of Australia’s Bureau of Mineral Re sources, Canberra. His new job carries a salary of $11,500. In 1935 Mr. Fisher visited Bougainville and made a detailed report on three small gold mines at Kupei, Moroni and Panguna. Panguna is today the site of the island’s massive copper de posits. • The Gilbert and Ellice Islands Commissioner of Labour, Mr.

Murphy, was due in the New Hebrides, the Solomons and Fiji in April and May to find out whether he could get more Gilbertese to work in the Hebrides and the Solomons.

He was to discuss industrial training matters in Fiji. He was to travel to the Hebrides on the GEIC’s passenger vessel Ninikoria. Mr. Henry Schutz of the GEIC’s biggest private firm, Schutz and Wilder, was to accompany him to the Hebrides on recruiting business. • Mr. Ned Avary, a retired PanAm jet pilot, is living on Lord Howe Island with his younger son, Dean. “Captain” Ned, who likes Howe’s climate and its school, re cently made a trip to Noumea on Captain Emile Savoie’s Jacques Del Mar 11, via Norfolk Island. On Howe he has rented a large house for an “indefinite stay”. • Mr. Les Hambleton, a retired jeweller who had spent 10 years building a 28 ft ketch in a barn near Vancouver, British Columbia, farewelled his wife and children in Vancouver in April to sail around the world singlehanded in the ketch. • Lee Graham, who as a 16-year old set out from San Pedro, Cali fornia, in a 24 ft fibreglass sloop Dove to sail around the world single handed, is nearly home. (He was ex pected in Barbardos, West Indies, in late March, and had to sail through Panama to San Pedro). And the singlehander is now married. Lee married his wife, Pat, late last year when he arrived in Durban, South Africa, and Pat has since been follow ing his sailing stops by air or ship.

• Bob Trumbull has been The New York Times’ correspondent in the South Pacific these past four months, and during this time he has travelled to several Island territories (among them, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Fiji and Western Samoa).

He will be back in Fiji soon and plans to make a trip to Rabi Island.

Covering the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Tarawa late last year, Bob went to Ocean Island and he’s now anxious to follow up the Banaban story. As a war correspondent, Bob covered the Tarawa battle over 25 years ago. Today he’s based in Sydney. • Mr. Bill Carney, Australia’s Trade Commissioner for the Pacific Islands, put in a week on Tarawa, capital of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, in April. A real goer, Bill has done a tremendous lot in the last couple of years to promote Aus tralian trade and goodwill in the Islands. The other Australian Trade Commisisoner for the Pacific Islands, Mrs. F. B. Wilson, has recently put in three weeks in New Guinea, visit ing Madang and Kieta. She expects to visit New Caledonia later this year. • Captain A. J. D. McArthur, a ships’ master in the Solomons and New Guinea Islands from 1932 to 1936 and in recent years master of the Conzinc Riotinto exploration ship Craestar, suffered a stroke in April.

He retired in January and became a partner in a land agents’ firm, Surfers Accommodation Centre, at Broad beach, Queensland. Captain McArthur’s wife, “Babs”, died late last year. His brother-in-law, Bob Lundie, is head of a Sydney customs agency. ® An apprentice draftsman, Duckly Nippon, who works for the Department of Public Works in Papua-New Guinea has been selected as the Apprentice of the Year.

Duckly comes from Kunakunai Village in the Kokopo Sub-District of East New Britain. • Mr. Alan Tiffany, formerly head of the School of Engineering at Ipswich Civic College, England, is due to arrive in Fiji with his wife and children in May, to take up a new appointment as principal of the Derrick Technical Institute in Suva. • Mr. John Simpson, China Navigation’s training officer with the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Teraka seamen’s training scheme, recently arranged for 15 trainee seamen to fly to Hong Kong from Tarawa to

take up jobs in his company’s ships.

To avoid a long and expensive air trip via Fiji and Australia, John chartered Fiji Airways’ 748 aircraft to fly the Islanders to Majuro, Marshalls, and from there they picked up Air Micronesia north wards. • Reverend G. C. Harris, presi dent of the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga and the kingdom’s Royal Chaplain since 1963, will retire to Australia in June. He will leave following the church’s annual con ference at the end of May. No successor has been named. • Mr. Ossie Todd, Steamships Trading Co. Ltd.’s resident director for Australia, recently bumped into an old New Guinea drinking mate in Sydney. The mate: Monty Stobo, currently a director of Burns Philp (NG) Ltd. and shipping manager for BP’s parent group. Both have many years behind them in NG working for their rival groups, but they are now based in Sydney. • Martin Burnet, of Bedfordshire, England, is now working with the Volunteer Service Organisation on three causeways on Onotoa Atoll Gilbert and Ellice Islands, with an other VSO, Dick Morris. They are working against time to get the causeways completed. The pair used a raft made of 25-year-old oil drums to move the atoll’s only tractor from islet to islet. • Two former New Guinea gold fields identities found themselves with unexpected spells in Sydney hospitals in April. Mr. Tom Yeomans was in St. Luke’s Private suffering from a slight stroke, and Mrs. Lillian Barclay Millar was in Mona Vale Hospital recovering from on opera tion. Mr. Yeomans’ attack came just as he was preparing for a trip to New Guinea.

(More People, p. 139)

Opposite: Miss Virginia Blake, professional dancer from Tahiti,

visited Sydney recently after

having been in Los Angeles where she was a guest of the American television show "Holly wood Palace" Miss Blake, who was in the film "Mutiny on the Bounty," is pictured here in Sydney's Centennial Park. The duck is one of the locals, and apparently with an eye for beauty. Photo: Bruce Adams.

Mr. T. Sitione (left) and Mr. J. Hunter, of Apia, Western Samoa, outside the main training building of the Turin (Italy) International Centre, where they recently com pleted a programme in the management of export marketing. They are the first two men from the Islands to train at the centre.

After completing film work in Australia, Italian actor Walter Chiari (he starred in "They're a Weird Mob") and his bride, actress Alida Chelli, flew to Fiji for a honeymoon. They are seen here at The Fijian Hotel.

Fiji-born model Emma Heffernan and he[?] husband, Ken Clemens, pictured here in Suva will spend a year in Fiji before returning t[?] Australia. In 1967 Emma won a top award i[?] Australia.

One of the last pictures taken of P-NG's Bob Bunting before his death in March shows him (fourth from left) presenting Tom Briggs (second from left) with a certificate of life member ship of the RSL. Also in the photo, taken in Madang, are, far left, John Hughes, vice-president of P-NG's RSL; third from left, Eric Sagar; and, fifth from left, Don Maclean, president, Madang RSL sub-branch. Bob Bunting was president of the territory's RSL and a member of the National Executive.

[?]he Auckland, NZ, Easter Show, Mr. Tom Lloyd, of Norfolk Island, its out one of Norfolk's attractions on a large-scale relief map of the island to Air New Zealand hostess, Dorice Reid.

Virginia Kehulani Blake, formerly of Suva, made a pretty picture at a recent Islanders' Association of Sydney meeting.

She was in Sydney and Newcastle recently as part of a Fiji tourism promotion team, backed by the Fiji Visitors Bureau.

Picture: Bill Matthais.

Pictured at a recent social night of the Islanders' Association of Sydney are Mr. and Mrs. H. Stowens, formerly of Western Samoa.

A senior programme officer with the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, Mr. Michael D. Monti, 24, has been selected by NZ's Volunteer Service Abroad for an assignment as programme organiser and train ing officer with the Tonga Broadcasting Commission.

He left for Tonga in April.

• Mr. Ross Denny, general inager of NZ’s Rigidgrid Plastic rfaces Ltd., has recently put in a v days at Rarotonga, Cook Islands further his company’s proposals to “rate an internal air service in the >oks and also form a local flying ib. Mr. Denny arrived in a five iter Cessna aircraft and made 'eral short flights over the island th Islanders. • Mr. Philippe Brotherson, a 39ir-old contractor of Raiatea, has ;n elected Mayor of Utoroa aiatea). He succeeds the late Mr. ircel Hart, who was killed in a lldozer accident in January ( PIM , arch, p. 130). • A New Guinean priest has been pointed to one of the most senior sitions in the Anglican Church of pua-New Guinea. He is Father allace Kibikibi, 58, who will take er as Dean of the cathedral at )gura in the Milne Bay District len Father lan Lovell returns to igland in April.

This is the first time a New jinean has been made Dean of the thedral. Father Kibikibi will also come priest in charge of Dogura, ; Anglican Church’s oldest and gest mission station.

Father Kibikibi comes from a lage near Dogura and was a icher for six years before entering j ministry. Since being ordained 1944 he has served at several [ferent mission stations in the Drthern and Milne Bay Districts of s territory. • A four-man New Zealand irliamentary party led by Mr. J. R. arrison, National Party Member r Hawkes Bay arrived in the Cook lands in March. The others, all ibour (opposition) Party members, jre: Mr. P. A. Amos, Member for anurewa; Mr. A. J. Faulkner, ember for Roskill; and Mr. J. L. unt, Member for New Lynn, Visits the Cook Islands by members of ew Zealand’s House of Represen tives started in July, 1967. The sits are designed to familiarise the P’s with the Cook Islands and their oblems. • Dr. R. G. Crocombe, Director r the New Guinea Research Unit at e Australian National University, rived in Rarotonga, Cook lands, in March. He was on his ay from New Guinea to the Univ

sity of California to attend talks the University’s Centre for Pacific udies. • Mr. T. H. Perry has resigned s position as Financial Secretary to ie Cook Islands Government to join the New Zealand Public ;rvice. Tim Perry arrived at Raro nga in August, 1956, to become nior clerk with the Public Works epartment. In September, 1960, he as promoted Treasurer, and during )61, 1962, 1963 and 1964, he was ember of the Legislative Assembly.

After the advent of self-govern icnt in 1965, he was promoted inancial Secretary. With this position ent the responsibilities of comp oller of Customs, chairman of the larine Board, chairman of the busing Board, and Industrial Rela ons Officer. • Right Rev. Bishop Ignatius toggett of the Aitape Diocese has ssigned as Bishop of the Catholic fission in the West Sepik area of apua-New Guinea.

Father Ignatius Doggett arrived in ie territory from Australia in 1946 ith six Franciscans to take over a art of the West Sepik mission irmerly administered by the Society f the Divine Word. The war had bliterated much of the work of the irmer missionaries so that in many laces it was a matter of starting om scratch.

In June, 1947, Fr. Ignatius as uperior, and the six Friars, arrived i the Aitape area. He set out over ie Torricelli Ranges to contact the reas with large populations back rom the Aitape coast. This for the lost part was completely new ter itory for mission activity.

In 1952 Aitape was declared a refecture, and Ignatius Doggett was ppointed Prefect Apostolic in August f that year. In November, 1956, /lonsignor Doggett was named as Tear Apostolic, and was consecrated lishop on February 26, 1957.

The territory subject to the mis ion’s activity has an overall popu ation of about 80,000. To date some 5,000 of these have been contacted »y the mission; there are now about 0,000 Catholics among them, [here are 27 mission stations in the msh and on the beach; some 74 chools are operating, and 91 native eachers have been trained and teach ome 5,000 pupils.