Honoured by King.
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Solomon Islands Treasurer Honoured by King.
From Our Own Correspondent
Tulagi, June 7.
FN the King’s Birthday Honours List an I.S.O. was conferred upon our very worthy Treasurer, Mr. Frederick (“Pop”) Johnson.
Mr. Johnson, if rumour is correct, has so successfully managed our bud get that an apparent, substantial deficit of a few months previously will be come small surplus at the end of the financial year. He has achieved this in spite of a fall of about £10,000 on the year’s import revenue, and also without resorting to the usual Governmental practice of imposing
heart-rending taxation.
Mr. Johnson served a number of years in the New Hebrides before com ing to us in 1920 to untangle our finances. He is the second in our ser vice to win distinction; the first being Mr. C. M. Woodford, the father of Government in the Solomons, who re ceived a C.M.G.