transitions

Honoured: USP senior physics lecturer, Dr Geoff Dougherty by two separate professional bodies.

Dr Dougherty has been elected a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Elec tronic Engineers in the United States.

He has also been admitted as a fellow by the Australian Insti tute of Physics.

Resigned: Papua New Guinea Combined Trade Union Con gress chairman, Napeleon Liosi.

Mr Liosi, who is president of the Public Employees Associa tion, has also indicated his intention to quit the chairman ship of the Workers Education Advisory Committee.

He said the decision had been made necessary due to preparations for an 11 -month overseas study leave.

Promoted: As general manager of Pacific Resources Inc (PRI), Mr W. Douglas Long.

In other moves, John E.

Harmes has been promoted to manager of marketing opera tions, while Robert H. Rath, formerly general manager of South Pacific operations, has taken the new position of manager of petroleum business facilities for all PRl’s petroleum activities.

Mr Long joined PRI in 1983 when the company acquired Marlex’s South Pacific business.

Mr Harms was formerly a logistics officer for the US milit ary and joined PRI in 1984.

Mr Rath joined PRI in 1977

after working for C. Brewer and Co and Union Oil.

In another appointment, Jayprakas Mulki becomes FRl’s marketing manager for South Pacific operations.

He was formerly petroleum economist at PRI having joined the company in 1983 from Hawaiian Telephone company.

PRl’s restructuring is aimed particularly at the South Pacific where they envisage in creaseing opportunities.

In addition to its terminal and operations in American Samoa, PRI South Pacific includes joint ventures in the Cook Islands and Fiji with supply agreements in Kiribati and Australia.

A 4,400 barrel petroleum terminal has just been com pleted in Tonga.

Appointed: Four new Solomon Islands cabinet members Mr John Tepaika, Mr Ben Fouko na, Mr Daniel Fa’asifoabae and Mr Joini Tutua.

Mr Tepaika (Rennell and Bel- Iona) is reappointed to the transport, works and utilities portfolio; Mr Tutua (Gizo and Kolombangara) is minister for education and training; Mr Foukona (Lau and Mbaelelea) becomes trade, commerce and industry minister, while Mr Fa asifoabae (East Kwaio) is the new public service minister.

Returned: To Britain, former magistrate and Commissioner of the High Court of Solomon Islands, Mr John Freeman after a three year assignment.

Mr Freeman has returned to his former barrister’s practice in England.

Remembered: The great hurricane of 1889 and the heroism of the Samoans who rescued the crews of three German and three American warships in Apia harbour.

An anchor, believed to belong to the German ship Adler was installed at Matautu as a hurricane monument.

Peter Meredith jr who raised the anchor with the aid of a Fijian fishing vessel told the Samoa Times that archeologists agreed with his theory that the anchor belonged to the Ger man vessel whose wreck now lies beneath the sand of the harbour’s reclaimed area.

Elected: New president of the Journalists Association of West em Samoa (JAWS), Falesu Leute Fua editor of Sauali. He was elected following a request by Samoa Times editor, Fata Faalogo to be relieved.

Appointed: PNG’s high com missioner to Malaysia, Sir Alkan Tololo a former director of education and high commis sioner to Australia. Appointed: Manager of Fiji’s first merchant bank, Suva businessman Mr Lyle Cupit. The Merchant Bank of Fiji Ltd was due to open its doors on September 1.

Left: His post as chief magis trate of Fiji, Mr Gordon Ward, He and his wife Margaret were

Mr William Douglas Long.

Mr John E. Harms

Mr Robert H. Rath

presented with a silver set by the judicial department. Mr Ward was to take up a senior legal post in Solomon Islands.

Resigned: After 18 years with the PNG Correctional Institu tions Services, Supt Robin Polis. He is replaced as New Guinea Islands regional com mander by Acting Supt De nnis Piandu.

Left: The law courts of Western Samoa, Judge David Lowe after a brief term. The govern ment had requested an exten sion to Judge Lowe’s term so that he could head the Com mission of Inquiry into the Salelologa logging equipment fire in January.

However, the New Zealand government decided that press

ure of work at home was too great.

At a farewell ceremony at the justice department, members of the Law Society saluted the judge who has returned to New Zealand.

Mrs Ruby Drake thanked the judge for the way in which he had always dealt with mat ters she and other lawyers had argued before him.

Judge Lowe is replaced by Judge Derek Paine of Christ church.

Awarded: Fullbright scholar ship to Port Moresby city mana ger Mr Vili Maha who will study for a professional mas ter’s degreee in urban and regional planning at the Univer sity of Pittsburgh.

Scholarships were also

awarded to Mr Florian Gubon a lawyer in the international branch of the Justice Depart ment and Public Solicitor’s Office lawyer, Mr Salamo Injia.

Mr Gubon will study for a master’s degree in law and marine affairs at the University of Washington while Mr Injia will study for a master’s at Harvard Law School.

The scholarships are all for 12 months.

Appointed: Director of the Pacific Islands Development Program at the East-West Centre, Mr Charles Lepani.

Mr Lepani was director of PNG’s National Planning Office from 1976 to 1980 when he left to study for a master’s degree in public administration at the

John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard Uni versity.

Since then he has been in volved in a series of business projects in Papua New Guinea.

Appointed: Senior administra tive officer in the Department of Chief Secretary, Nauru, Mr Donald Stewart.

Mr Stewart was executive officer in the Department of External Affairs from 1975-78.

He was earlier a district officer in Apia.

After leaving Nauru in 1978, Mr Stewart was director of administration at the South Pacific Commission until 1981 when he left to take up a teaching position at the Univer sity of New South Wales.