Officials.

Honours for Former Fiji Officials.

From Our Own Correspondent.

Suva, Aug. 10.

AN interesting item of recent news is the award of a K.C.M.G. to H.

S. D. Rankine.

Sir Richard Rankine was Receiver- General in Fiji 10 or 12 years ago.

The office of Receiver-General has now been renamed as Colonial Treasurer.

Sir Richard went to Nyasaland. His promotion is peculiarly interesting to residents of Fiji, and it shows that the training which civil servants re ceive in Fiji stands them in good stead in later years.

The colonists in a small Crown Colony have a natural tendency to under-value the merits of the civil servants set in authority over them, and it is interesting to recall other in stances of those who received pro motion in recent years. There are many examples, but in recent years one recalls such names as those of the present Administrator of the Lee ward Islands, His Honour D. R.

Stewart, C.M.G.; the Colonial Secre tary of British Guiana, Hon. H. G.

Pilling, C.M.G.; and Mr. G. V. Maxwell, C.B.E., who recently retired from the post of Secretary of Native Affairs in Kenya. These three all served their apprenticeship in Fiji.