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Cancelled: The Cook Islands permanent resident status of controversial cancer therapist Dr. Milan Byrch.

An immigration department official said the minister for immigration Mr. Norman George had cancelled the resi dence certificates of Byrch and his wife Marylin Gardner.

Byrch and his family had been in the Cook Islands for about 18 months before the certificates were granted in 1978. As New Zealand citizens, they qualified for residence after one year.

Byrch then went to the USA where he served half of a six year prison sentence for fraud, grand theft and practising medi cine without a licence. The certificates were cancelled ear lier this year while the Byrch family was holidaying in Tahiti and was reported to be plan ning to return to New Zealand.

Elected: President of the Tonga Medical Association, Dr. Tevita Fuloka. The vice-president is Dr. Maika Kinahoi with Dr.

Siaosi ’Aho as secretary and Dr. Seini Kupu as treasurer.

Appointed: Acting director of parks and recreation for Amer ican Samoa, Leroy L. Leroux.

Known as his successful pro fessional boxing career as the Pago Kid, Leroux had 44 pro fessional bouts and held the All-Samoan middleweight championship before he quit the ring to join the US Navy in 1973.

He was previously the finan cial manager in the Office of Development Planning before being appointed to his new position.

Appointed: New Caledonia Government Tourist Office’s promotions and publicity manager for Australia, Norellc Feehan.

The Manager (Australia), Henri Maniquant said the new position was part of an overall strategy by the tourist office to increase communication be tween the industry and the general public.

Ms Feehan was previously a publicity officer with ABC Radio and before that was

promotions co-ordinator for UTA French Airlines.

Mr Maniquant said it was important to maintain and build on the current upward trend of travel to New Caledonia.

Appointed: General manager of Friendly Island Airways, Paul Karalus, the former manager of South Pacific Island Airways.

A former St John’s High School teacher, Mr Karalus (37) takes over from Robert Moin of Australia who had been acting manager of FIA since the airilne’s inception in November last year.

Launched: New banknotes for Solomon Islands. The new notes are in denominations of $2, $5, $lO, $2O and $5O and incorporate the Solomon Is lands coat of arms in place of the portraits of the queen.

Resigned: PNG Land Trans port Chairman, Margaret Loko claiming “political interfer ence.” A court had earlier or

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The club, along with the court house, the public library and the RSL club have all been given notices to quit by the National Capital District Interim Commission in order to make way for the planned redevelopment of the beach area.

Elected: National Fisherman of the Year, Harinandan Singh of Rewa, Fiji.

Mr Singh, of Kasavu in Lokia became a full time fisherman when the sugar industry closed down in the area.

Rei " stated : Seven sacked workers at New Guinea Bevera 3 es °f Lae, PNG after an Arbitration Tribunal ruled in their favour The seven had been dismis sed for drinking on company premises but th S e tribunal P up V held their appeals, accepting their evidence that senior, man agement personnel were allowed to drink liquor on com pany premises.

The men had been out of * or months, Recalled: Solomon Islands permanent representative to the UN in New York, Mr.

Francis Saemala.

A Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement said he was being recalled because of the high cost of keeping him and his family in new York.