People

• Chief Daniel Tioko Bea, one of the oldest people in the Western District of the Solomon Islands celebrated his 97th birthday in August. Chief Bea, of Dunde Village, Roviana, was one of the first Methodist teachers in the Baniata area of Rendova Island at a time when many of the islanders were pagans. He has 10 children and 43 grand children, and is still active enough to work in his garden. ® Messrs. Philip Dignam, James Whistler and Clive Wilson have been elected members of Lord Howe Island’s Committee, a non-decision making body which makes recom mendations to the island’s board.

Howe is allowed four members on the committee, but only three valid nominations were submitted.

Clive Wilson, also Lord Howe Island’s hapless boatowner and bicycle operator, recently became the father of a second boy, Campbell Bryant.

The baby was born at the island’s Gower Wilson Memorial Hospital and he is a brother for young Craig and Melanie. Clive lost his new $30,000 tourist boat on its delivery voyage from Sydney to Howe in late June. • Father George Kester, longest resident RC priest in Rarotonga, celebrated his 25th year in the priest hood at Titikaveka on July 25. Born in Holland on August 7, 1907, he arrived in the Cook Islands in June, 1947. He almost died of typhoid the following November when he was stationed in Manihiki. • Moorean archaelogist, Mrs.

Marimari Ottino, found an ancient adze similar to those of Polynesia while digging on the island of Madagascar with her French husband recently. Her husband has been doing field work for his Ph.D. degree on Madagascar and the adze is believed to be the first of its kind to be found on the island, although scientists have long been familiar with other similarities between the cultures of Polynesia and Madagascar, • Archdeacon of Suva, the Vener able Jabez L. Bryce has been ap pointed Archdeacon in Polynesia and Vicar of the Parochial District of

Viti Levu West. As Archdeacon in Polynesia he will have the oversight of Anglican work in Fiji outside the Suva area, and in Samoa, Tonga, Gilbert and Ellice Is., Nauru and Ocean Is., Rarotonga, Niue and French Polynesia As Vicar of the Parochial District of Viti Levu West, he will have the Cure of work in the Western Division with head quarters in Lautoka. • Sydney journalist, lan Todd has been made Pago Pago representative of the Samoa Times, Apia. Formerly a Daily Telegraph, Sydney, journalist, Mr. Todd has a two year contract.

A former BBC sub-editor and crime reporter in Canada, he will take up his duties on October 1. • Doctor Jim C, Hitchcock of the division of infectious and tropical diseases, University of California, Los Angeles, has just completed a two month survey of filariasis on Tonga’s northernmost islands of Niuatoputapu and Tafahi. The entire population of 1,400 were given clinical and blood tests village by village. • Dr. J. J. Saave, who has been in charge of the malaria section of the Department of Public Health in P-NG for the past eight years, is to assume other functions within the department where his wide know ledge of each district and the health problems of the territory including malaria, will be utilised. He has commenced compiling an epidemiol ogical report on the changes in disease patterns which have occured over the past decade. He will also report on the general development of health services over this period. • An unusual award was an nounced on September 1 by the Aus tralian Institute of Agricultural Science—it has given a fellowship to a man who died recently. The posthumous award has been made to Mr. Frank C. Henderson, who at the time of his death on July 21, at the age of 58, was Assistant Administrator, Economic Affairs, in P-NG, in recognition of his services to scientific agriculture in New Guinea and his work in the economic development of the country. • Mr. Akila Inivigo is to be sent by P-NG’s Department of Lands, Survey and Mines, to advise Solomon Islanders on alluvial gold-mining techniques. Mr. Inivigo has already supervised an alluvial gold-mining project in the West Sepik District of P-NG, which provided a new cash

income for people of that area. He hopes to be of the same use to the people of the BSIP. • The University of Otago, NZ, has accepted a thesis by the Regional Health Officer for the New Guinea mainland, Dr. L. A. Malcolm, for a doctorate of medicine. Dr. Malcolm is the 11th person to obtain a doctorate from the study of medical conditions in the territory and the eighth officer of the Department of Public Health to do so. He carried out research on the growth and development of children in the Bundi area of the Madang District over a period of two years. He is also currently doing research in the growth and development of children in a number of New Guinea societies. • Bougainville Copper Pty. Ltd. has recently made five senior staff appointments. They are Messrs. R.

W. Ballmer, director of operations and general manager; D. C. Vernon, assistant general manager, R. P.

Ehrlich, project manager, North America; P. W. Quodling, admin istration manager, and J. R. Trezise, concentration manager. Mr. F. F.

Espie remains managing director • The first New Guinea Womens’

Association (Melbourne) Memorial Prize has been awarded to Miss Milika Tom of the Milne Bay District of New Guinea, who obtained top school certificate examination results in home economics. Miss Tom is training to be a welfare officer.

There are almost as many cars on Norfolk Island as there are people; out of a total of 1,300 people, the 1,000th registration of a car took place recently Mr. Alan Buffett took the honour of ownership and the picture shows him fixing the 1,000th plate in place. Wykeham Perry took it for us