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Tuvalu
One of Tuvalu’s leading politicians and an early supporter of separation from the Gilberts, Mr Sione Tui Kleis, has been appointed Speaker of the Tuvalu House of Assembly.
He has resigned his seat as member for Nui. Aged 44, Mr Kleis was a member of the GEIC House of Assembly for eight years.
Tuvalu has opened a postage stamp bureau to handle the sale of Tuvalu’s stamps to collectors. The manager is Mr A. Kennett who recently arrived from Bristol in England.
Agreement has been reached with Fiji Air Ltd for a fortnightly Beech craft Baron service between Fiji and Funafuti. Flying under an Air Pacific number, Fiji Air will operate on alternate Sundays in the same week as Air Pacific’s HS-748 service so that visitors to Funafuti can enjoy a three-day stay in Tuvalu. . . . And Tonga Tonga has been strengthening her diplomatic ties and has made an un usual appointment—Mr Dill Water house, one of Australia’s biggest and most colourful turf bookmakers, as honorary Consul for Tonga in Sydney.
The Counsellor of the Russian Embassy in New Zealand, Mr A.
Makarov, has also been in Tonga to discuss arrangements for the estab lishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries.