People

• Sir Michael Gass, former Higl Commissioner for the Western Pacific is expected to marry soon. His en gagement to Miss Elizabeth Acland Hood, a diplomatic corps worker ii London, was announced recently. • Mr Lilomaiava Niko, 50, ha been appointed Chief Justice c Western Samoa, suceeding Mr Justic Donne who is now Chief Judge c the High Court in the Cook Island: Mr Niko represented the territorij constituency of Faasaleleaga No in the Western Samoa Parliament. • Mr L. W. Robertson, who lei Invercargill, New Zealand’s mo: southerly city, for Tonga, in 1941 to escape a winter, retired recentl from the Tonga civil service. He we Accountant-General when he retire< a post he held for 23 years. He an his wife (nee Jean Riechelmann played a full part in sport in Tong; Mr Robertson was prominent i rugby and athletics administrate while his wife represented Tonga i the 1963 South Pacific Games i tennis and table tennis. For a lot time she was popular “mine hostes: at Beach House, Nukualofa. The will live in Auckland. • Mr M. Edward Rowlands, pr viously UK Parliamentary Unde Secretary of State for Wales, has bee appointed Minister of State, r sponsible for New Hebrides affair He took over this responsibility froi Miss Joan Lestor, who has left tl Foreign and Commonwealth Offi< to become Parliamentary Unde Secretary of State in the Ministry < Education. Miss Lestor visited tl New Hebrides earlier this year wii her French counterpart, Mr Olivii Stirn. • Dr Aiono Fanaafi Larkin again a director of education Western Samoa —this time for tl Congregational Christian Church Samoa. She was recently dismiss* from her post as Director of Educ tion for the Western Samoa Cover ment, for an alleged “adulterous ass ciation”. She has appealed to tl Supreme Court against this dismiss: The education committee of tl CCCS asked her to take up her ne post. Included in the committe* invitation was a request that in 19' she become principal of Malauf< High School.