People
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• Judge Arthur A. Morrow, American Samoa’s Public Defender, has announced his intention to retire on December 31, but he will still be busy—writing his observations on the development of the territory’s legal system since his arrival in 1937 as Chief Justice. He retired from that position in 1965 and has served as Public Defender ever since. He will still serve as Lands Commission chair man. • Niue’s Resident Commissioner, Mr. S. D. Wilson, whose three-year term of office ended in October, will serve for another year, which will begin in February when he re turns from holiday in New Zealand.
Mr. Wilson, who joined the NZ De partment of Island Territories in 1957, first arrived on the island in 1958 and served for 3i years as adminis trative assistant to two former resi dent commissioners, Mr. A. O. Dare and Mr. D. W. R. Heatley. © Mr. A. P. Lutali has been appointed a permanent judge on the bench of the High Court of American Samoa. He succeeds Judge T. M.
Tauala, who retired at the end of November. Judge Lutali has been serving as a temporary judge.
O Well-known Fiji personality Mr. Gerald Barrack has been appoin ted managing director of Pacific Harbour Estate Management Ltd., supervising the management of estates now being developed at Deuba near Suva by Pacific Hotels and Develop ments Ltd. Suva-born Mr. Barrack, 37, is at present a director of Car penters (Fiji) Ltd. and will take up his new appointment on March 1.
He is chairman of the Port of Suva Labour Utilisation Board, a member of the Labour Advisory Board and council of the Fiji Employer’s Con sultative Association. He played a prominent part in the negotiations which led to the settlement of the month-long Fiji dock strike last April.
He was a member of the committee appointed by the government to com bat inflation and is a member of the Public Service Commission. • A special survey by the Angli can Church in Papua New Guinea to help it in its localisation pro gramme is being done by one of the
church’s young English priests, Dr.
Robin Gill, a teacher at Newton theological college in the Milne Bay District, who is also a trained social ogist. Dr. Gill is interviewing both brown and white churchmen to dis cover what their attitudes are towards localisation, what is happening about localisation in their areas, and what the problems seem to be. He will concentrate particularly on the min istery, but localisation in other parts of the church’s life and work will also come under scrutiny. It is expec ted that his report will be ready about June. • Mr. Bruce McCrindle, principal of Mangaia’s Junior High School, in the Cook Islands, completed his two year term in December and returned to New Zealand with his wife and four children. • Mr. Albyn Mark, of Otago (NZ) University, and his wife, Mar ivee, arrived in Rarotonga in early December and travelled on to Man gaia Island to begin anthropological studies. Mr. Mark’s particular interest is community ecology.
He is a lecturer on social anthro pology and Mrs. Mark is completing her master’s degree at the same uni versity. They will stay on Mangaia for three months and hope to learn the language. They plan to return for short periods in the next three years to complete their studies. • Mr, P. D. Macdonald, a former Colonial Secretary in Fiji, is a director of a new public real estate company which has been formed in the dominion. The company, Fiji
Property Centre Ltd., will invest in shop and office development in the Suva city centre, apartment blocks and houses.
The public will be offered 250,000 $1 shares. Other directors are Mr.
Denis Williams, formerly Secretary for Fijian Affairs and Local Govern ment, Mr. David P. Ragg, chairman of the Fiji Visitors Bureau, Mr. M.
M. Patel, of Ba, Mr. R. S. Reddy, of Suva, Mr. S. A. Shah, of Suva, and Mr. Pete Slimmer, of Nadi. • Captain M. M. Joy, first Fiji born man to train as a marine pilot, has obtained his pilot’s licence, second class, for Suva Harbour. A supernum erary senior marine officer. Captain Joy joined the government marine ser vice in 1959 as an apprentice. He was given his mate’s certificate in 1965 and his master’s certificate of com petency the following year. His new licence entitles him to pilot vessels of up to 480 ft and 7,500 tons and in three years time he can sit for his first class licence covering vessels of unlimited length and tonnage. • Miss Cecilia Kave, a 22-year old Cook Islander, has gained her BA degree in New Zealand. Cecilia attended Rarotonga’s Tereora College after having won the Pomare Medal at Ngatangiia Primary School at the age of 11. • The Anglican Bishop of Tonga, the Rt. Rev. Fine Halapua, ordained his son Winston as a deacon at a service in St. Paul’s Church on Dec ember 19. Also ordained was Pau Likiliki. Both ordinands will serve in parishes in Fiji. • A welcome is assured for the latest arrival on the Pacific Islands publishing scene, Pacific Perspective, a journal which will be launched in March from the University of the South Pacific. With lecturer in politi cal science Sione K. Tupouniua, ofj Tonga, as editor, the journal, to ap pear twice a year, will contain articles on social, political and economic mat ters as well as commentaries on affairs current in the area. Tupouniua was educated in Harvard and Oxford.
Dr. Robin Gill.
Mr. S. C. Warnock who has been ap pointed manager of the bank of New South Wales' branch at Vila, the first in the New Hebrides.
Mr. Warnock was an administrative offi cer in the bank's New South Wales divisional administ ration before open ing the Vila branch.