"Unrivalled
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Experience"
Mr Ken Piddington, deputy to Mr Make Tupouniua, the new Bureau for Economic Co operation’s first director, will be something more than just a deputy. Mr Tupouniua has an unrivalled experience of the Islands’ economic and trade prob lems as Tonga’s Minister of Finance for the last 12 years.
Allied to that will be Mr Pidding ton s knowledge of the economic workings of the NZ Govern ment’s mind in relation to a wider, international field. He is coming to Suva from his job of head of the Economics Division of the NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He is an MA—he got it in French—and no stranger to his new boss. They were together at Auckland University in the 19505.