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Presented: Mr Alan Oaisa, Papua New Guinea’s high commissioner to Western Samoa’s head of state, His Highness Mai ietoa Tanumafili 11, in July.

Appointed: Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka was officially installed as Fiji’s Military Commander at a traditional Fiji cere mony at Suva’s Queen Elizabeth Barracks.

Appointed: Miss Liliane Tremoliers to communications officer to the Women’s Resources Bureau at the South Pacific Commission in Noumea.

Appointed: Miss Kathryn Berg will re place Mrs Bess Flores as South Pacific Commission Librarian.

Appointed: Tofa Leatiogie Ituau as Chief of Samoan Affairs in the Western Samoa Visitors Bureau.

Appointed: Mr Lance Cook as new chief manager for the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group in the Pacific, based in Suva. He replaces Mr Gavin Barnes.

Appointed: Fr Amando Samo of Truk has become Auxiliary Bishop to Bishop Martin J. Neylon in the Diocese of the Caroline-Marshalls.

Resigned: Albert Sandy, Vanuatu’s Minister for Transport, Communications and Public Works, for personal reasons. He held the post for four years.

Resigned: Sir Alexis Sarei, as leader of the North Solomons Province because of ill health.

Resigned: Richard Montoya as Assist ant Secretary of the US Interior Depart ment for Territories. He plans to run for the US Senate. Kittie Bauer will replace him.

Honoured: A statue of the late Antonio B. Won Pat, Guam’s first delegate to the US Congress, is planned for the Statuary Hall of the US Capitol.

Retired: Two senior seismologists in the Solomon Islands Ministry of Natural Re sources: Deni Tuni and Philip Dereni.

They are replaced by Patrick Nanau and Allison Papabatu.

Died: Mr Mohammed Hassan, in Aus tralia, in July, aged 42. He operated the Varoka Pharmacy in Ra during the 1970 s and was involved in charitable and reli gious work in the community. He emi grated to Australia in 1984.

Died: Mr Shantilal Desai, in Vancou ver, Canada, after a short illness. He was founder and managing director of Desai Bookshops in Fiji until 1976.

Died: Mr Abel Nagan, in Ba, aged 70.

He pioneered the manufacture of local farm implements in 1945 and was head of Nagan Steel Rolling Mills in Fiji.

Died: Mr Harry Humphrey, at Vuna pope, PNG, from a heart attack, aged 71.

He was MP for the Pangu Pati, represent ing the Talasea electorate. A by-election will be held.

Died: Patrick (Paddy) D. Macdonald, in London, aged 78. He served in the Brit ish Colonial Service in both the Gilbert and Ellice Islands and Fiji and was, for five years in the Sixties, chairman of the Fiji Public Services Commission.

Died: Mrs Ruby May Allan, widow of the late Jack (Buka) Allan, in Australia, aged 87. Both before and after World War II she and husband managed the Gilalum plantation in Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

Died: Rev Dr Wilhelm Bergmann, in Australia, aged 88. He established the first expatriate mission station in the Papua New Guinea highlands, at Kambaidam, in 1931. He also prepared a grammar and dictionary of the Kuman language. □

Mr Alan Oaisa

Mr Patrick D. Macdonald