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e Mr C. T. A. Black, a director of Bums Phi Ip (SS) Co Ltd, Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Ltd and Burns Philp Properties Ltd, and Mr R. M.
Stobo, a director of Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd and Burns Philp Trustees Co Ltd, have been appointed to the main board. They succeed Mr L. N. Stanford and Mr J. H. Terrey who have retired after long service with the company. The company secretary, Mr J. P. Neilly, who is also retiring, will be succeeded by Mr B. C. Porter. & Mr Graeme Boyd has been ap pointed editor of the PNG Post- Courier. He was previously news editor. Mr Boyd succeeded Mr J. S.
Pinkstone, editor since June, 1969, who has been appointed to a senior position on the news executive of the Herald and Weekly Times, Mel bourne. © Mr A. P. J. Newman, who re tired at the end of June as PNG’s Deputy Administrator joined the PNG Treasury Department in 1946. He became head of this department in 1961, Assistant Administrator (Economic Affairs) in 1969 and Deputy Administrator in 1970. He was a member of the Executive Council in his last four years in
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• Captain Hugh Birch, formerly Qantas public affairs manager, has been appointed regional director for the South Pacific. His responsibilities include the marketing areas of Fiji, New Zealand, New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, Samoa, Tahiti and Tonga. He is well known in the South Pacific, having served with the RAAF in New Guinea during World War II and as a flying-boat pilot be tween Australia and Fiji in 1948-49. • Local people have been ap pointed directors of three Papua New Guinea government departments.
The first local men to hold these posts, they are (with the names of the retiring directors in brackets Mr Alkan Tololo, Education (Dr K. R.
McKinnon), Dr Ako Toua, Health (Dr W. D. Symes), and Mr Sam Piniau, Information and Extension Services (Mr L. R. Newby). • Fiji tourism pioneers, Mr and Mrs Harvey Hunt, will leave Fiji for Auckland in November to help their company, Hunts of the Pacific Ltd, expand in the South Pacific. Both are
Fiji born, and they founded Hunts Travel Service, the first Fiji travel agency, 25 years ago. Hunts of the Pacific Ltd is now established in Australia, New Zealand and the Solomon Islands. In 1969 BOAC- Associated Companies Ltd, joined the enterprise, and the big Hong Kong based group, Jardine Matheson, be came a shareholder in 1972. Mr and Mrs Hunt will visit Fiji regularly. • Captain J. McNeely has been appointed operations manager of Polynesian Airlines. Two other re cent executive appointments are Messrs Murray Robertson as traffic and sales manager, and Arthur Anae, as passenger sales superintendent, Messrs Robertson and Anae were seconded from Air New Zealand. • The board of the Caledonian Association for the Development of Tourism has awarded its first prize to Aloi Pilioko for his collective works, and in particular his “Nativity”.
Pilioko, a Wallis Islander now living in the New Hebrides, has travelled throughout the South Pacific, painting and exhibiting. His work was discussed by well-known artist Nicolai Mich outouchkine and Marjorie Crocombe in the first MANA feature (PIM, March). • Mr G. M. R. (Geoff) Day who spent 35 years in the Fiji sugar in dustry, and rose to the top executive post of managing director of South Pacific Sugar Mills Ltd, has been ap pointed branch manager of CSR Ltd in Adelaide. Mr Day served in most mill areas in Fiji, and took a pro minent part in local affairs. • Mr John Smeeton who opened two PNG Administration broadcast ing stations—Radio Kerema and Radio Milne Bay—and worked in two others, retired early in June. He went from Australia to PNG in 1928, and married there in 1932. He was involved with mission work till he came back to Australia in 1952. He went to PNG again in 1963 to work for the Department of Information and Extension Services in radio stations. • Mr J. M. Thomas succeeds Mr S. C. Warnock as manager of the Vila branch of Bank of New South Wales. Mr Warnock has retired. Mr Thomas has worked for the bank in Papua New Guinea, and NSW and Victorian country areas. ® Toshio Oishi, general manager of Trans-Pacific Development Co Ltd, Apia, recently became the proud father of the first Japanese baby to be born in Western Samoa. The baby, a boy, Kantaro, was premature but he and mother Toyo are doing fine, said a happy Oishi.