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• Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands of Micronesia, was the scene of a further piece of history on August 31 when Mr. Lewis Glenn, who is the District Administration representative on Bikini, married Jeneese Hilton, a former Peace Corps volunteer. The ceremony was per formed by Mr. Oscar Deßrum, Dis trict Administrator of the Marshalls, on the sandy beach of Bikini Island at sunset and according to Mr. De- Brum, this was the first marriage on Bikini since the historic bomb tests just after the war. • Archbishop Raymond Etteldorf, Apostolic Delegate to New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, made an official visit to Tonga and Samoa in September. • There will be some changes in both Australian and New Zealand Pacific official trade representation as a result of Fiji’s independence on October 10. NZ Trade Commissioner for the Pacific, Mr. Gordon Mc- Laren, will shift his headquarters from Auckland to Suva. It will be in the same office as the new NZ High Commission. Australia will move its Trade Commissioner to the Pacific Islands from Sydney to Suva, to premises in the Pratt Building, but there will also be a change in rep resentation. Mr. L. J. Martin will take over the post from Mrs. Beryl Wilson. Mrs. Wilson will assist in the setting up of the new Suva office and return to head office in Canberra for a new posting. With the change to Suva the Australian Trade Com missioner will not now have the res ponsibility of trade with New Guinea, but there has been no announcement on how that will be handled. • Mr. Edward Swofford, who left Pan American Airways in 1966 after 23 years, has rejoined the com pany, and has been appointed region al vice-president, sales, Pacific. He is based in Honolulu. • Mr. C. K. F, Stewart has been appointed deputy manager of the Suva branch of the Bank of New South Wales. He succeeds Mr. Tom King, who will be returning to the bank’s NSW division. Mr. Stewart has previously spent three years in the Suva office of the Wales, from 1958 to 1960.
• Mr. Uttam S. Rana, director of the UN Information Centre for Papua-New Guinea, Port Moresby, since 1967, in October will take up a new post as director of the UN Information Centre for the Caribbean, Port-of-Spain, Mr. Nobuaki Oda, will now take over the Port Moresby post. Mr. Oda, a Japanese, was for many years a producer and newsman with the Japan Broadcasting Corpor ation. • Tonga’s Minister of Finance, and Deputy Prime Minister, Mahe U. Tupouniua, will be away from the kingdom for the next 12 months.
He left Nukualofa in September to attend the Commonwealth Finance Ministers’ Conference in Cyprus, but then he will go to London and take up a 12 months’ fellowship at Oxford, during which he will study
economic development and govern ment. Acting as Finance Minister in Mahe’s absence is Tonga’s Minister of Health, Sione Tapa. • Western Pacific High Commis sioner, Sir Michael Gass, recently made an eight day visit to the New Hebrides—which should be the last of his tours in his widely-scattered area before he goes on leave in December. Acting WPHC in Sir Michael’s absence will probably be Mr. Tom Russell, recently appointed Chief Secretary in succession to Mr.
L. M. Davies. Mr. Davies is now Deputy Governor of the Bahamas. • Swiss travel agent, Mr. Gilbert Genton, recently visited New Cale donia for the second time as part of a world tour in search of new holi day destinations. He named the lagoons of Ouvea, New Caledonia, and Bora Bora as the most beautiful he had seen. New Zealanders in Noumea, however, voluble cham pions of the Cook Islands, hastened to urge him to also offer the Titutaki lagoon to his European clients. • Mr. J. N. Falvey becomes Attorney-General when Fiji becomes independent on October 10. He succeeds Mr. Justin Lewis QC- Under the new constitution, the post of Attorney-General must be filled by a Member of Parliament. • Television actor and business man Raymond Burr, is a speaker at Fiji’s 10th annual tourism convention at the Korolevu Beach Hotel from October 7 to 9. He’s to talk on “lessons learned from showbusiness in relation to tourism”. Other guest speakers will be the president of the American Society of Travel Agents, Mr. Chuck West, executive director of the Pacific Area Travel Associ ation, Mr. Marvin Plake and the manager of Fiji’s Native Land Trust Board, Dr. Rusiate Nayacakalou.
Mr. Oda, see below.
Fiji's Assistant Minister for Natural Resources, Mr. Jone Naisara, with the President-General of the Methodist Church of Australasia, Rev.
C. K. Daws, and Prin cipal of the Navuso Agricultural School, Mr. G. N. Bamford, at the opening of the school's farm mechanics workshop, recently. The Fiji school this year is training 300 agricul tural students from all over the Pacific.