People

• Miss Mary Vance Trent, US State Department’s liaison officer in Micronesia, completed her two-year our of duty early in July. She has etired from the US Foreign Service vhich she entered 27 years ago. She ;erved in American embassies in Oslo, Prague, Paris, Jakarta md Wellington, and has also been a nember of the US delegation to the Jnited Nations. Her successor at Jaipan is Mr Alf E. Bergesen, who las served since 1950 in Burma and Cambodia. • Mr Philip Palmer, 72, manager or Burns Philp on Fanning Island etumed recently to Australia to re ire after 47 years in Burns Philp’s :mploy. He was first skipper of a mall ship in Bougainville, then nanaged copra estates in Bougain ille and New Britain. In 1937, Mr ’aimer went to Fanning Island as nanager, and except for several years »n naval service during World War I, and holidays, remained there till ic retired. He is not certain yet /here he and Mrs Palmer will live, 'Ut he expects it will be in north Queensland. He has been succeeded s manager at Fanning Island by the ssistant manager, Mr John Fleet wood. ® Bishop Darmancier flew home > France in July, via Fiji, New Cale onia and New Hebrides, after spend ig 22 years in the Pacific, the past ight as Bishop of Wallis and Futuna ►lands, Monsignor Darmancier is icceeded by the first Polynesian ishop of Wallis and Futuna, Mgr olesio Fuahea, who was born in Zallis and has served in Samoa. • Mr E. J. L. Ride, head of the outh Pacific section of the Australian breign Affairs Department and well nown to Island government officials, as been appointed counsellor at the mstralian Embassy in Washington DC). He leaves towards the year id. His successor in the South acific section is Miss Mary Mc herson, until recently counsellor at le Australian Embassy in Rome. • Mr Felix Pinczuk has been ap linted Secretary for Finance in auru, succeeding Mr Alex Gilroy, ho has returned to Australia. • It looks as if Monsignor Herbert aivu, 62, Vicar General of the RC rchdiocese of Rabaul and named in ugust as Auxiliary Bishop of Port

Moresby, will no sooner be con secrated a bishop than he will be come an archbishop, the Archbishop of Port Moresby. Archbishop Virgil Copas has announced his intention of resigning his Port Moresby see and is reported to have said he would like to hand over the see to Mgr Paivu.

Meanwhile, in Fiji, it has been reported that Monsignor Pita Mataca, 41, has become the first Fijian bishop, as assistant bishop to Archbishop

George Pearce.

• Mr Luke Sela has been ap pointed to head the first overseas information office set up by the Papua New Guinea Government, which will be in Papua New Guinea

House, Sydney. Mr Sela, a Manus Islander, was Government Principal Information Officer and before that news editor of the government broad casting network. • Britain will upgrade its consulate in Papua New Guinea to commission status in October with the appoint ment of Mr George Baker, as British Commissioner. Mr Baker, 57, at pre sent Deputy British Government representative in St Vincent in the West Indies, has served in Washing ton, Tanzania and Zaire. • Mr Evertius Romney, formerly executive officer in the PNG Depart ment of Transport, has been ap pointed PNG Commissioner in Fiji, and arrived in Suva in September.