Transition

Awarded: A $A7,500 Westpac training prize to Mr Been Timbo, an engineer with the Kiribati national fishing company Te Mautari. The Westpac Banking Corpora tion award will enable Mr Timbo to pur sue further trade and engineering studies in Australia.

Appointed: Mr James Bryant to chief executive of Union Shipping New Zea land, which combines the operations of the commercial division and the fleet divi sion of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd.

Also, the company announces that it has named Mr Ken Urry chief executive of Union Shipping Australia, covering all Union group operations that are based in Australia.

Died: Mr Moses Qionibaravi, 49, the former deputy Prime Minister of Fiji and Minister for Finance in the Alliance Government from 1973 until its defeat this year. Mr Qionibaravi died of a liver ail

ment in Sydney on September 22. In one of his last official duties, Fiji’s Governor General Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau said Mr Qionibaravi’s death was a “blow” to the country. “We have lost a true champion of all that is good about Fiji,” the Govenor General said. □ Appointed: Mr Lindsay Miscros, Sol omon Islands’ Assistant Secretary, For eign Affairs, as Solomons’ third non resident Roving Ambassador to the Re public of Korea, Japan and the Republic of China.

Mr Miscros, 37, is from Tikopia in Temotu Province.

Appointed: Mr Peter Peipul, current PNG Ambassador to the European Eco nomic Community in Brussels, Depart ment Head of the Government’s Department of Trade and Industry. The previous head of the Department, Mr Wep Kanawi, has been appointed Secretary to the Department of Personnel Manage

ment, previously the Public service Commission.

Appointed: The Women’s Represent ative in PNG’s East New Britain Provin cial Government, Mrs Margaret Lavutul; to Minister for Community Development and Women’s Affairs.

Expelled: French Ambassador to Van uatu, Mr Henri Crepin-Leblond was ex pelled after being charged by the Government with “interfering in internal affairs”. Mr Crepin-Leblond was given seven days to leave the country. (See story on pages 16, 17.) Appointed: Mr Lance Joseph as Aus tralia’s High Commissioner to PNG, suc ceeding Mr Michael Wilson who held the post from 1984. Mr Joseph was formerly Minister and Australia’s Deputy Perma nent Representative to the United Na tions from 1980 to 1984. □