General Griffiths

From a Special Correspondent.

Rabaul Jan. 24.

IT is reported here, but quite unofficially, that the present Administrator of the Territory, General T. Griffiths, will not return to the Territory after his visit to Australia, to attend the Administrators’

Conference at Canberra, in March.

The change—if the report is true—is not viewed with any favour here. General Griffiths always was held in great esteem; and his good reputation has been strengthened tremendously since he took up duty here eighteen months ago. He is regarded as the ideal Administrator— firm, just and wise—and the popular view is that if the Federal Government wishes this Territory to go along as happily in the future as it has done in the recent past, it should try to induce the General to remain at Namanula.