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Mr H.S.H. Stanley, 56, is the new British High Commissioner for the New Hebrides. He is also Assistant Under-Secretary for the Dependent Territories Division of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Ministry of Overseas Development.
He succeeds Mr E.N. Larmour, who is retiring from the diplomatic service.
As was the case with Mr Larmour, Mr Stanley will be based in London.
Mr Larmour was given a knight hood by the Queen in the New Year’s Honours list.
Mr Kaveinga Havea has been ap pointed Director of the Institute of Social and Administrative Studies at the University of the South Pacific, Suva. A Tongan, Mr Havea replaces Dr D.J. Murray, who has acted as in terim director since the Institute was founded last year. Mr Havea was originally trained as a teacher in New Zealand. He was the first Tongan principal of Tonga College before becoming deputy director of educa tion in Tonga. His first degree was from Willamette University, USA, and he has a master’s degree from Saskatchewan University, Canada.
Captain Hugh Birch, formerly Qantas regional director for the South Pacific, can’t get the Pacific out of his blood. He is now the regional manager, Australia, for the Tonga Visitors Bureau, and regional sales manager, Australia, for South Pacific Island Airways, of Pago Pago. Cap tain Birch’s career of more than 30 years in civil aviation, as a pilot and administrator, took him to many of the Islands. He is based in Sydney, at 31 Cross Street, Double Bay, 2028 (telephone 32-0291).
Mr Kevin Barry Egan, 29, has been appointed Papua New Guinea’s Public Prosecutor. Announcing the appointment late last year, PNG’s Minister for Justice, Mr Ebia Olewale, said that a position of Associate Public Prosecutor would be created to enable a young national lawyer to work closely with Mr Egan, who has undertaken to train a national lawyer to eventually take over his position. Mr Egan’s appoint ment is for three years.
M Jean Massias, Head of the French Information Service in the New Hebrides and director of the newspaper Nabanga, has been made a Chevalier of the Order of Merit.
Captain Fetu’utolu Tupou, at the end of January, became the first Tongan to command the Tonga Defence Services. He was promoted to the rank of major, succeeding New Zealander Major Hornbrook. New Zealand, for many years, has provid ed the commander of the TDS.
Mr Sam Piniau, chairman of the Papua New Guinea National Broad casting Commission, has been reap pointed for a second three-year term by the PNG National Executive Council. Mr Piniau’s first term ex pired on December 1, 1976.
The Papua New Guinea Defence Minister, Sir Maori Kiki, has an nounced the promotion of three national Defence Force officers to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. They are Major John Lytus, from Kaulas village, North Solomons Province; Paul Soma, from Wuvulu, East Sepik Province; and Jack Maniama, from Kwato, Milne Bay Province.
Major Garry Elias has become the first national officer to take command of Papua New Guinea’s Landing Craft Squadron. He took over the command from Lieutenant- Commander D.J. Angus of the Royal Australian Navy.
Well-known Suva publican, Mr Vince Costello, 7/, retired in January after 43 years in the hotel trade in the Fiji capital. Mr Costello had been associated with two Suva hotels, the Pier (later renamed the Garrick), and the Suva. He took over the licence of the latter hotel in 1970, in partnership with Mr Norm Macdonald. Mr Costello is well-known as a sportsman. He is a keen racing fan and was a member of Fiji’s bowls team at the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth and again at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1970.
Mr John Malcolm has been ap pointed group corporate planner of Burns, Philp & Co Ltd. The position is a newly created head-office ap pointment in the group. Mr Malcolm will report direct to the general manager, planning and development.
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