People

Captain Brett Hilder, graduated as M A at Sydney’s Macquarie University in May.

His thesis, Voyage of Torres, de fends the theory that Endeavour Strait in Torres Strait was dis covered by Torres in 1606 and not by Captain Cook 164 years later. As Captain Hilder said in a press inter view: “Very few people accept this idea. They want the strait to be dis covered by Cook in 1770, and not some damn Spaniard in 1606.”

An abridged version of Captain Hilder’s thesis appeared as a magazine article in PIM in April, 1973.

One of the best known mariners in the South Pacific, Captain Hilder has long been familiar to PIM readers for his talented black and white portraits of prominent Island

personalities.

Many old friends of Colin Buscombe, well known in Papua New Guinea for more than 25 years, might like to know that since March he’s been in the Allendale Hospital, Cessnock, New South Wales. He’d like to keep in touch Brother Harley Buscombe is now living at

Miranda, Sydney.

Mr Terry Goggin, until recently a, o n ot aVs?™ ha's May assistant secretary to the Government of Western Samoa. He replaces Mr Rod Gates and his ap pointment is for two years. Mr Gog gjn h as serV ed with the Australian Government in Malaysia, India, South Korea and Thailand. Mr Gates becomes deputy director of the South Pacific Bureau for Econ omic Co-operation (SPEC).

English-born Tongan daughter of royalty, saw the land of her parents for the first time on June 7 as a mere babe of two months. Salote Lupepau’u Salamasina Purea Vahine Arii o e Hau Tuita, the

daughter of Princess Pilolevu and Captain Ma’ulupekotofa Tuita, was born at Oxford, England. She arriv ed in Tonga with her mother and grandmothers Queen Halaevalu Mata’aho and Fatafehi Tuita. She is the first granddaughter of King Taufa’ahau and Queen Mata’aho.

Her husband, son of a Tongan no ble, was to follow in June after com pleting a 10 months’ course on foreign service at Oxford Universi ty. Baby Lupepau’u’s grandmothers and two uncles. Princes ’Aho’eitu and ’Alaivahamama’o, were among those at her baptism at Lincoln Chapel, Oxford in May.

Mr Myles Park Preston, 50, has been appointed Deputy Governor of the Solomon Islands. Mr Preston was previously head of the Carib bean department in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.

John Milne, for some time at Apia observatory and well known in the Pacific Islands, is these days First Secretary (Information) at the Australian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is still a regular reader of PIM.

Adrian Winkel, recently-ap pointed High Commissioner for the US Trust Territory, is said to be a “tough, demanding, but fair’’ ad ministrator. He promised to con tinue to be just that when he moved into his new post. His guiding prin ciple as High Com? “1 will attempt to be as honest, open-minded, objec tive and fair as I can in terms of even-handedness in dealing with the people.” He wants to work with the people of Micronesia to make the government as effective and pro ductive as possible. His admin istration will be people-oriented and he expects his staff also to be

people-oriented.

Captain Milder (left) gets a handshake and his MA parchment from Sir Garfield Barwick, the university Chancellor and Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.