People

• Ex-PNG Administrator Mr L.

W. Johnson and his wife were given a warm send-off when they left Port) Moresby on March 20 en route for a Hawaiian holiday at the Honolulu home of Professor Frank Johnson, who was a frequent visitor to Govern ment House during his stint at the University of Papua New Guinea.

When the holiday’s over, Mr Johnson will take up his new job as head of the new Australian Development As sistance Agency. He will help to give away more than $360 million of which $2lO million will go to Papua New Guinea. • The Republic of Nauru’s of ficial representative in Australia, Mr Tony Holmes, will move to Sydney in late April to take up a new ap pointment as assistant director of the Australian Federation of Con tractors. He leaves the republic after more than 5i years, first on Nauru as legal officer with the De partment of Justice, and as official representative in Melbourne for the last 2i years. His successor has not yet been selected, but the tipping is that he will be a Nauruan national. • Mr Justice Clifford Grant, an Englishman, has been appointed Chief Justice of Fiji, succeeding Sir John Nimmo, who retired in Feb ruary. Almost immediately after his appointment, Mr Justice Grant left Fiji on leave. In his place, Mr Justice Timoci Tuivaga, was named as acting Chief Justice, the first Fijian to hold the highest judicial office in the country. • Nauru’s first lawyer from the island nation’s own ranks is Mr Leo Keke, recently admitted as barrister and solicitor by the supreme court of the Australian Capital Territory, Canberra. Mr Keke graduated in law at the end of last year from the University of Tasmania and is expected to spend a year with a law firm in Melbourne before taking up a post with the republic. He is a brother of Nauru’s first university graduate, dentist Ludwig Keke. • Mr Brian Holloway, who began a career as a police officer in South Australia, and went to Papua New Guinea in 1948 as an assistant sub inspector has been appointed PNG’s new Commissioner of Police, suc ceeding Mr N. A. M. Nicholls, who will retire in May,