U.N. OFFICIALS IN CONGO

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29389, 16 December 1960, Page 18

U.N. OFFICIALS IN CONGO

New Zealanders On Staff “The Press” Special Service AUCKLAND, Dec. 15. Five New Zealanders are working with the United Nations civilian operations staff in the Congo. They are Messrs Robin Miller and lan Berendsen, Major C- G. Hunt, Mr Hugh Williams, and Miss E. V. Metcalfe. Mr Miller, a former journalist, is a civilian officer concerned with political and economic affairs in -Bukavu. When the Second World War broke out he enlisted as a dispatch rider in the Divisional Signals, 2nd N.Z.E.F., but was soon appointed a war correspondent. Later he served in the Pacific, and as a member of the Prime Minister’s staff he flew with the late Mr Peter Fraser to New York, Rome and Cairo. When the war ended, Mr Miller was appointed to the trustee section of the United Nations in New York. Mr Berendsen is the son of Sir Carl Berendsen, a former New Zealand Ambassador to the United States. He has been working with the United Nations trustee section and in 1958 went to Lebanon with a United Nations observation team. He is chief civilian officer in Elizabethville. Major Hunt represented New Zealand in Palestine last August as a military observer with the United Nations truce supervision organisation. He is an executive engineer in Leopoldville. Mr Williams has been director of the United Nations information centre for the Nordic countries in Copenhagen since April of this year. Previously, he served with the United Nations Preparatory Commission as chief of the radio section, and in Sydney as director of the information centre. Mr Williams has been made radio communications adviser, stationed in. Leopoldville. Miss E. V. Metcalfe, a New Zealand nurse, is public health adviser in Leopoldville.