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9 Ratu Penaia Ganilau has been appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Fiji, succeeding the late Ratu Sir Edward Cakobau. Ratu Penaia re tains his portfolio as Minister for Communications, Works and Tourism.

Ratu Penaia was Acting Prime Minister while Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara was overseas in July and August. Ratu Mara has taken over the portfolio of Home Affairs, pre viously held by Ratu Sir Edward. • Mr W. Vance Hall has succeeded Mr Robert W. Skiff, as Charge d’Affaires of the American Embassy in Fiji. Before going to Fiji he was in the office of Australia, New Zealand and Fiji affairs in Washing ton. Mr Skiff, who went to Fiji in 1970, will go to the American Em bassy in Bangkok. • Mr Wayne Anthony Wilson, for the past three years a stipendiary magistrate in Hong Kong, has be come a full-time stipendiary magis

trate in Western Samoa. Before going to Hong Kong, Mr Wilson practised as a barrister and solicitor in Christchurch, New Zealand. His wife, who has an Arts degree, is a qualified secondary school teacher They have two young children. • Mr John Mika has been ap pointed sales representative in New Zealand for Polynesian Airlines. He was educated at Chanel College, Western Samoa, and has been em ployed by Polynesian Airlines for the last six years. He went to New Zealand in 1971 for medical reasons and returned to Apia in 1972 as operations administration supervisor.

He will work from the Polynesian Airlines’ office in Caltex House, Auckland. ® Two men with 92i years’ service between them in the PNG Health Department in PNG, retired at the end of June—Messrs S. H. Christian and Kalafa Emei. Mr Christian joined the department in 1922 as a medical assistant. After World War II much of his work covered malaria surveys, and in time he became a world-wide authority on the biology of the types of anopheles mosquitoes found in PNG. He was responsible for setting up the Malaria

Control School at Minj in 1952, and he became principal of the National Malaria Training School when it moved to Kundiawa in 1964. Mr Emei started work in the department as a hospital orderly in Port Moresby on January 1, 1932. He served in a number of areas. He was a storeman at Base Medical Stores, Port Moresby, when he retired. • Mr Fred Reymond, of Suva, has been appointed an Islands sales repre sentative of Consolidated Chemicals Ltd, Auckland marine products manufacturers. He will promote and sell the firm’s Epiglass lines in Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, the New Hebrides and the BSIP. Mr Reymond, 36, is a prominent Fiji yachtsman, the current Fiji javelin class champion.

He sailed into eighth place in the South Pacific javelin championships against Australians and New Zea landers. He is also open squash champion of Fiji. • President Hammer Deßoburt, of Nauru, has succeeded King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV of Tonga as Chancellor of the University of the South Pacific.

He will make his first official visit to the university at Suva in December to confer degrees and award diplomas and certificates at the university’s third graduation ceremony.