People

• A descendant of the famous Bounty mutineer, Fletcher Christian, is captain of the New Zealand Rugby League team which left for England on October 1 to play in the world cup series. Mr. F. R. Christian has already represented his country three times including a tour of Britain and Australia; most of the mutineer des cendants now living in NZ, migrated from Norfolk Island. • First New Guinean dentists from the Port Moresby Dental College received their degrees at the college’s first graduation ceremony on October 8. They were Kesia Kavanamur, Stephen Poawai Pouru, Josephine June Tabua and Geoffrey Girrappa. This brings the number of local dentists practising in the terri tory to eight. • British Red Cross Society official. Miss Jenny Scott, visited Tonga recently to arrange for Tonga to be admitted as an independent member of the society. Tonga has issued special postage stamps to mark the centenary of the British Red Cross. Miss Scott is also undertaking a similar job in Fiji. • Peace Corps volunteer, Randy Stevens is making a successful ven ture of the Handicrafts of Fiji Co operative, composed of some 2,000 members from Lau, Gau and Koro.

A year ago the co-operative had a $1,500 deficit; now with new market ing methods, in July alone sales were valued at more than $5,000.

“Masi (tapa cloth) alone is out stripping copra as an income earner on many of the outlying islands— it’s really remarkable,” Mr. Stevens reports. • A man who has the world record for visiting countries—2s4 of them in fact—arrived in Niue in September as a passenger on Peter Warner’s Just David. Mr. Hart Rosdail, a married schoolteacher from Elmhurst, near Chicago in the US, has been travelling for 16 years.

This year alone he’s been to the North Pole, Norway, Muscat, the Maidive Islands, Christmas Island (the phosphate island near Java), the Seychelles and Norfolk Island.

On his way home he’s due to visit Tonga, Sydney, Manila, Guam and Johnston Island.

• Mr. D. Morland, a P-NG gov ernment officer, has been appointed a director of Bougainville Copper Pty. Ltd., operating company for the Bougainville copper project in Papua-New Guinea. Mr. Morland, Assistant Secretary (Major Projects) in the Department of the Admin istrator, Port Moresby, will represent the Administration on the company’s board. • Mr. Mahuru Rama Rama has been appointed a member of the P-NG Copra Marketing Board.

Previously a deputy member, he now represents Papua producers on the board. Previous representative Mr. B. E. Fairfax-Ross has been ap pointed chairman of the board in succession to Mr. lan McDonald, who retired earlier this year. • Mr. John Wisdom has been ap pointed director of commercial services for Air New Zealand. Fiji bom John joined the airline in 1951, as station manager, Fiji. He repre sented Air NZ in Fiji for 15 years before transferring to Auckland as manager for the Pacific and North America. Air New Zealand has also appointed a representative to be based in Noumea, Mr. Graeme Hankins, who is living there with his family. • The marriage took place in Sydney on September 26 of Donella, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Colin Man* of Vunalama Plantation, Bainings, New Britain, to Lieut.

George Stown, RAN. The service was at the Naval Chapel, Watson’s Bay. • Mr. Athol Carter, an Australian, has been appointed Secretary for Island Development and Industry in Naum. A 45-year-old bachelor, he was formerly with the Australian Commonwealth Department of Trade and Industry. • Antonia Holmes and James

Redhead were the toast of Lord Howe Island’s golfing fraternity recently—they had just won the island’s first ever golf champion ships. • New Senior Legal Officer on Nauru, Mr. Peter H. MacSporan, was due to arrive in the republic on October 17. Mr. MacSporan, 31, after practising law with a group of Mel bourne solicitors, has been in prac tice on his own. His wife and family will join him soon. • Leader of the Mataungan Asso ciation in Papua-New Guinea, Mr.

John Kaputin, was divorced by his Australian wife on October 26 on the grounds of desertion. Mrs. Christine Kaputin of Eastwood, NSW, was granted custody of their three chil dren, aged six, seven, and eight, by Mr. Justice Clarkson in the Port Moresby Supreme Court. The two were married in Port Moresby in 1961. • A young Tolai in October opened his second service station in the Gazelle Peninsula, New Guinea.

He’s William Tutunava Tollman, nephew of Ministerial Member for Education, Matthias Toliman, and owner of Promotion Centre Motors.

The service station is in a section of Rabaul’s New Business Promotion Centre, which offers low-rent shop space to budding New Guinean busi nessmen and women.

They're waiting for something! In fact it's to welcome a new air service to Rarotonga—Air New Zealand's HS748 jet-prop airliner, which began operating recently to Rarotonga fortnightly pending completion of the new airport in 1972.

Shown here prior to the welcome by the Acting Premier of the Cook Islands (fourth from left), Mr. A. Short; from left, Mrs. and Mr. L. J. Davis (he is NZ High Commissioner in the Cooks), Mr.

D. F. Toms, Air NZ's director of policy development, Mr. Short and Mrs. Short.