People

• Mr. Roy Cobb, who resigned in April as American Samoa’s Director of Education, passed through Sydney recently en route for a South- East Asia educational conference.

Mr. Cobb told PJM that he “much regretted” leaving Samoa, Mr. Rob Williams, Samoa’s secondary schools supervisor, is now acting Director of Education until a new director is appointed. • Mr. Sid Hildrew, BOAC’s manager. South West Pacific, who has made it his business to see as many Islands destinations as possible since he took up his Sydney-based job a year ago, was in Los Angeles in May discussing his airline’s plans to introduce VC 10 jets into the South Pacific in October with Los Angeles —instead of San Francisco—on the route. To date there’s only been one thing the affable Mr. Hildrew won’t divulge—how many flights a week BOAC will stage across the Pacific with its VClO’s. • Mr. Frederick “Pop” Johnson, onetime Treasurer of the Solomons (1920-41) and former labour in spector for Britain in the New Hebrides (1907-1919), these days likes nothing better than a chat about the old times. Now 91, “Pop” lives with Mrs. Johnson, his wife for 58 years, in their old Lindfield, Sydney, home. • Mr. Arthur Lloyd, manager of Burns Philp’s Islands shipping depart ment, put in a three weeks’ trip to Papua-New Guinea and the British Solomon Islands Protectorate in April to check latest wharf and storage facilities and also gauge local interest in BP’s new chartered freighter, Marsina. A BP man for nearly 30 years, Mr. Lloyd had made a similar trip last year, and his view is that unit loading will have to be used in major NG and Solomons ports.