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BHC Reception
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Front Row (Kneeling - L
to R):
Raymond Watkin; Andrew Thomas (Australian Friends of
Vanuatu) Rob; Gordon Dickinson; Ben Nash (our youngest member!) Mark
Walton (new Zealand); Chris Nicol; Norman Shackley; nathan Shackley.
Back Row (Standing - L to R):
Mena Shackley; Edna Butterfield; Patricia Watkin; Edid
Burman; Gerry Burman; Helen; Roger Beynon; Pat Dickinson; April Beynon;
Sonja Zentner; John Challis; Pamela Clunies-Ross; Jill Challis; Patricia
Mitchell; Helga Longworth; Bill Mitchell; Gill Nicol; Mike Longworth |
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The British High Commissioner Mike Hill, relaxing
after the formal welcome with wife Elizabeth.
Mike and Elizabeth left Port Vila to take up a new
post in the Ascension Isles just two weeks after the BFOV visit to
Vanuatu. |
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Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy
Prime MInister, Sato Kilman, takes the microphone to welcome the British
Friends of Vanuatu on behalf of the government of Vanuatu. Just
three weeks earlier the minister had met members of the association in
London in the course of an official visit to Europe accompanied by Georges
Manuiri and Job Boe. |
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Roger and April Beynon (Left) take the
microphone at the suggestion of the BHC to explain a little of their
background in the New Hebrides in the 1960s. Roger was a the project
manager for Vila Wharf and the pumping station; April worked at Pango
School as a teacher.
( Nathan Shackley (Right) talks to Touasi Taiwia and Kalorib Sope of Vila
Customs to learn something of what went on in Vila at the time of his
birth there in 1984. |
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Thumbnail prints below -- click on thumbnail image to enlarge. |
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 Ian
and Sue Irving examine details of
the BFOV activity programme for the stay. |
 Pat
and Ray Watkin take the microphone to tell the guests about their time in
the New Hebrides prior to Independence. |
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Harold Qualo meets up with Norman
Shackley and fills him in on all that has happened since Harold was
Director of Public Works in the 1980s/ |
John & Jill Challis say their piece
about life in Vila prior to independence and the changes they have found
on this, their first return to the country since leaving Lakatoro in 1978. |
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