People
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• Co-ordinator of Transport, Mr.
G. A. McDonell, on May 4 an nounced his resignation from the P-NG Administration. He goes to the board of Urban Systems Corpora tion, a Sydney firm of urban and regional planning consultants, and leaves Port Moresby in August. He has been in the territory since 1967. • Mr, Robert McCumstie of Can berra was due to take up duty as South Pacific Commission economist in Noumea on May 7. He recently spent six years in the project’s section of the Australian Commonwealth Bureau of Agricultural Economics, where he was senior research officer.
He replaces Mr. R. M. Watson, who returned to Australia last December, • Mr. Frank C. Mockler, a Wyoming lawyer, arrived in Pago Pago in May to take up his post as Lieutenant-Governor to the Gov ernor, John Haydon. Aged 61, Mr.
Mockler is a former speaker of the Wyoming State Legislature. • Maurice Thompson of Pele, Efate, in the New Hebrides, has been elected president of the Students’
Representative Council of the Uni versity of Papua and New Guinea.
He had already worked on the council as representative of the Arts faculty. • Fiji-born Mr. Jerry Tikaram, who has been with Air India in Suva for the past six years, has been ap pointed as supervisor of reservations sales in Suva for American Airlines. © With experience in Okinawa and Hawaii, Dr. Lowell Weise, of Honolulu, has been appointed direc tor of American Samoa’s Depart ment of Medical Services. © Mr. George Guesdon, French judge and co-president of the New Hebrides Joint Court, was recently appointed to the grade of knight of the Legion of Honour. • Mr. Graham Jeffrey, with hotel experience in Europe, the US and Pakistan, has taken up appointment as manager of the Pago Pago Inter continental Hotel, American Samoa. • The last Administrator of Nauru before it was granted indepen dence, Brigadier L. D. King, has left his appointment of Administrator of
Christmas Island, off the coast of Java. He is succeeded by Mr. J. S.
White. • Mr. Allen O’Brien was in Sydney at the end of May, having stayed two weeks on the New Hebridean island of Malekula en route from his California home. Mr.
O’Brien is with the L. S. B. Leakey Foundation, which is devoted to “research related to man’s origin”.
He has made frequent Pacific visits.
Mr. O’Brien, a globe-trotter extra ordinary, also stopped off in the US Trust Territory on his trip over and was staggered by the “amazing” ruins of Nan Madol on Ponape. He and his wife are now heading for Central Asia, returning to the Pacific via out-of-the-way parts of Indonesia. • Mr. M. E. Burns has been ap pointed principal of the Tarawa Teachers’ College in succession to Mr, R. McMurdo who has become Director of Education in Tonga.
Mr. Burns, from the UK, is married with two small children. He has seen service in Tanzania and England as a lecturer and teacher. • Mr. Jack Lawrence Kelly, a
Brisbane Queen’s Counsel, has been appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Papua-New Guinea. He replaces Mr. Justice Ollerenshaw, who has retired. Mr. Justice Kelly is married with three children. • Dr. Kiki Thoma of Nauru is to attend a regional training course on epidemiological surveillance and inter national quarantine at Suva July 24.
The course is being sponsored by the World Health Organisation. • Nauru’s President, Hammer deßoburt, made another world trip in May-June, visiting Saipan, Japan, London, New York, San Francisco and Hawaii. In Japan he talked on phosphate and shipping, in London he talked with the secretary-general of the Commonwealth Secretariat, Mr. Arnold Smith, and opened the office of the republic’s representative in the UK. He was due back in Nauru on June 12, following a board meeting of Fiji Airways Ltd. in Suva. • Mr. Oscar Deßrum has been appointed Acting District Admin istrator of the Marshall Islands succeeding Mr. Robert Law who has been named Trust Territory Government Liaison Officer in Honolulu. Also two Micronesians have been appointed Deputy District Administrators in the TT. They are Mitaro Danis for Truk District and Haruo I Remelik for Palau District. • William J. Mullahey, Pan Am’s man behind the scenes in the South and North Pacific for 35 years, retired recently, aged 60. Mr.
Mullahey was associated with Pan Am’s first trans-Pacific Clipper flights of the 1930’5, and he worked on early bases, such as Midway, Wake, Palmyra, Canton, Pago Pago, Nadi and Noumea. In recent years he has been responsible for much of the airline’s build up throughout the Islands.
New president of the Student Council of the University of the South Pacific is Solomon Islander, Mr. Francis Saemala, who is a degree 11 education student.
He intends to return home to secondary school teaching after completing his course in two years' time. In the mean time, he says, one of his main aims is to help improve relations between the university administration and the student body—a problem common to most uni versities, it seems. Picture by Bindar Pal.
• Lillian Tinsley, 22, who adorns the opposite page, is from Papua and has plans to return there to set up a modelling and charm school in Port Moresby. It would be the terri tory's first. Lillian at present is a receptionist in Sydney, and does some modelling. She is the daughter of the late Dr. R. W.
Tinsley and of the late Madeline Paterar, of Yule Island, Papua.