People

• Frau Hilde Thurnwald of Berlin has given the University of Papua and New Guinea Library a copy of the diary kept by her husband, Professor Richard Thurnwald, while he was studying in the Sepik region before and during World War I. The diary covers the period December, 1913 to October, 1915 and consists of 319 pages. Richard Thurnwald was born in Vienna in 1869, and died in Berlin in 1954. He was in German New Guinea when it was captured by the Australians in 1914 but he was allowed to return to Germany via the US. Besides his work on the Sepik he is well known for his studies in the Balkans, Micronesia, the Bismarck Archipelago, Bougain ville and East Africa. He was pos sibly the first anthropologist to have had legal training and much of his work dealt with the study of legal systems in primitive societies. The Thurnwald Range in New Guinea is named after him. • Chairman of South Pacific Sugar Mills Ltd., Mr. J. C. Potts, retired March after 46 years with the CSR Company and SPSM. He is succeeded by Mr. A. S. Hermes, former managing director of SPSM.

Mr. Potts, who plans to retire with his wife to NSW, joined CSR in 1925 as a chemist and served for four years in Australia before moving to Fiji. For the next 34 years, apart from three years’ duty in Australia during the war, he served in various capacities in Fiji’s sugar industry.

In 1946, he was promoted to Field Superintendent, Lautoka, and the fol lowing year to manager of Labasa mill. After managing first Rarawai and then Lautoka mills, Mr. Potts became CSR’s chief manager in Fiji in 1957, a post he held for six years before transferring to head office in Sydney as Fiji Inspector.

He became chairman of SPSM and general manager of the Fiji division of the CSR company upon the retire ment of Mr. H. G. Nicholls in 1968.

During the course of his busy life in Fiji, Mr. Potts took part in many public service and sporting activities. • Messrs L. J. C. Martin and C. J. Hall from the Overseas Development Administration of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, visited Vila recently to review conditions of service in the British Administration and to confer with officials at the British Residency.

• Mr. Arthur Archer, a Norfolk Islander now living in Auckland, has presented a Bounty plate to the Norfolk Island Historical Society for display in the museum. The plate had been handed down through the family of Midshipman Edward Voung of the Bounty, and bears the name Young inscribed on the back. The society said it was very pleased to acquire such a valuable addition to its growing collection of Bounty relics. • Mr. Tony Sanders, pilot with Air Melanesiae for almost two years, was to leave the New Hebrides on March 6 with his wife, to take up a new job flying with Qantas on its Boeing 707’s, after undertaking a training course. • Mr. Noel Bluett has been ap pointed Managing Director of New Guinea Coffee Brokers Pty. Ltd. He will be based at Goroka in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea.

Initially New Guinea Coffee Brokers will market coffee for the Leahy and Collins families. Mr. Bluett was Executive Officer of the Papua and New Guinea Coffee Marketing Board for the past six years. • Sione Tavo, of Tonga, has been selected as one of the two most out standing athletes at Church College, Hawaii. Tavo played an important part in the CCH team which won the recent Hawaii Rugby Union cham pionship. From 1957 to 1969 Tavo was a member of the All-Tonga team and received a silver medal at the South Pacific Games in Fiji in 1963. • Former heavyweight boxing champion of the South Seas, Kitione Lave, returned to Tonga in February after a long absence in the UK. Lave paved the way for Tongan heavy weights to box overseas. He defeated nine overseas heavyweights, including the British and Empire champion, Don Cockell. In 1963 he met and lost against Tom McNeil in Boston in the elimination bout to fight with Floyd Patterson for the world title.

He had numerous business ventures in the UK and he hopes to start a discotheque or gymnasium in Tonga. • Mr. L. Fehoko Fotu, 59, Police Magistrate, has retired after 33 years of Tonga Government service. First a police constable, Mr. Fotu became a magistrate in 1951. • Dr. A. Walsh, recently appointed Superintendent of Paton Memorial Hospital in Vila, New Hebrides, arrived in Vila on February 12. He is a surgeon.

• The first Cook Islander to fight for a world boxing crown may be Toro George, who now lives in New Zealand. Toro, Commonwealth Featherweight champion, is negotiat ing to meet Japanese world champion, Sho Saijyo, in Wellington. Toro, married with five children, has won all but eight of 37 professional fights, and his chances against Sho are not being written off.

O Mrs. Alistair Hutchison, wife of one of Western Samoa’s financial ad visers, has plans to introduce a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani mals in Samoa. In New Zealand in March she said she was concerned that so many Samoans did not realise the pain they caused their animals, particularly dogs and horses, through neglect and poor feeding. Mrs. Hut chison, who has 12 dogs, conducts the English programme for children on West Samoan radio. • Mr. Kami Shing was installed as headmaster of Onesua High School, New Hebrides, on February 18. • Scots-born New Guinea hand of nearly 22 years, Col Macleod, will be back at his job as a finance clerk for the P-NG Electricity Commissoin at Wewak by mid-April. He returns

West Sepik District Commissioner John E. Wakeford in Papua-New Guinea for 30 years was to retire on March 24 to live in Port Morseby. Mr. Wakeford was based at Vanimo —the station he opened in 1947, and which has grown from a tiny settlement of five houses, to a potential centre for a $50 million Japanese Ojii wood-chip base.

from leave at his “second” home, in Sussex, UK. A confirmed bachelor of 58 sporting a white beard and mo.

Col first went to NG in 1949, several months after migrating to Sydney.

He was “in the stores” for Bulolo Gold Dredging Company for two years until joining the Admin, in 1951.

Admin, jobs have included six years at Lae in the Department of Works, two years in the Department of the Administrator and eight years with the Electricity Commission before “retiring” in 1967. Col then put in several months on Karkar Island, off Madang, on cocoa planta tions before, in January, 1969, rejoining the commission, at Wewak. • Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mackenzie, a young Canadian couple from Dalhousie University, Halifax, arrived in Sydney in late March to start five months research in Aus tralia, NZ, Fiji and Western Samoa on the political activities of Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa from 1891 until the writer’s death in 1894. Ken, 32, has already gathered material on RLS in London, RLS’s birthplace, Edinburgh, and the Marist Mission, Rome. He is using the study to com plete his doctoral thesis at the univer sity and his expenses are paid by a Canadian Government scholarship. • Mr. David M. Kennedy, Ambassador-at-Large for President Nixon, was to visit the Trust Ter ritory at the end of March as part of a three-week tour of Asia. He was to visit Guam, Rota, Saipan, Yap, Truk, Majuro, Kwajalein, and then make a full report to the President on the economic problems and development prospects of the TT.

• Mr. Don Petersen, who has had close associations with Fiji and its international aviation development for over 25 years, is to be Air New Zealand’s new Suva-based manager, Pacific Islands. He succeeds Mr. R. G.

Millensted, who moves to Rarotonga as first manager, Cook Islands.

O Assistant Director of Research and Surveys with the P-NG Depart ment of Agriculture, Mr. A. W.

Charles, has resigned to work in Aus tralia. Mr. Charles, 45, first went to the territory 17 years ago as an economic botanist. He has been Assistant Director of Research and Surveys for more than 10 years. • Mr. Gordon W. Bradley is the new Trust Territory Director of Public Works. He takes over from Mr. Thaddeus Nosek. Married with three children, he has previously been involved in a Micronesian master plan project, while affiliated with a Hawaiian architectural and planning firm. • Tonga’s first women police were reviewed on March 12 by Queen Mataaho. She told them that as the first of their kind, they would be responsible for a high standard of conduct for others to follow, while the Minister of Police said his department was the first in Tonga to award women equal opportunity and pay. • Mrs. Beryl Cates, former Fiji Times reporter and PIM contributor, has left Fiji after a stay of eight years. She will settle in Singapore where her husband has taken up a new post.

• Miss Emily Viliame is back in Fiji as the first Rotuman woman to gain an MA. A former teacher at Annesley Girls’ School, Suva, she gained her degree at Nashville Uni versity, Tennessee. It wasn’t all study, however; in late 1968 she took part in an anti-Vietnam student demonstra tion. • Lisa Tine Wyss, the first child born to Peace Corps volunteers in Western Samoa, arrived on February 7. Mother is Karen Wyss, teacher at Leifiifi Intermediate School, father is Gerry Wyss, teaching at Samoa College. Peace Corps have been in Samoa three years. • Bruce Kuhn, manager of Micronesia Tours Inc., considers tourism, currently second to copra as Micronesia’s top export, will become number one within three years. About local attitudes, he said, “At first there was distrust of the tourist. But now it seems to me the people are slowly turning around. In Yap, for instance, the people seem to have discovered that the very things they want to pre serve —privacy, individuality, tradi tional ways—are just what the visitors have come to savour”. • A Samoan “prince” wants to be mayor of Philadelphia, US. Prince Galumalemana Vainupo Alailima is candidate for the Republican nomina tion in the May 18 primary. Born in Western Samoa, he moved to American Samoa at six and went to the US in 1950. He’s the son of a Methodist preacher and claims to be the great-great-great-grandson of King Malietoa Vainupo, the man who re ceived the first American official on Samoa in 1839.

A happy smiling bunch!

They're Papua-New Guinea's second batch of fully quali fied surveyors, awarded their Institute of Technology diplomas on March 12. (The territory's first group of surveyors graduated the same time last year.) This year's graduates are left to right), Livingstone Tabua, Frank Lee, Wesley Loratung, Stephen low, Francis Posa nau, Matthew Papai.