King’S Jubilee

Commemorated at Islands Centres

THROUGHOUT the whole of the Empire on May 6, British people paid tribute with messages of affection and demonstrations of loyalty to the successful 25 years’ reign of His Majesty King George V. The Silver Jubilee was celebrated with fitting ceremony and reverence at all centres in the Pacific over which waves the symbolic British flag.

FIJI’S CELEBRATIONS.—A meeting of the Fiji Legislative Council was convened early in the morning, when addresses were received from the three races in habiting Fiji, for transmission to the King.

The Defence Force turned out for a smart parade, and, led by the Band, marched impressively to Albert Park. In the afternoon Suva Harbour was alive with launches and Fijian canoes, competing in the Jubilee Regatta.

IN NEW GUINEA.—At Rabaul in the presence of members of the Legislative Council and local Returned Soldiers, General McNicoll (Administrator of New Guinea) inspected a detachment of Native Constabulary, which was exceptionally well-drilled. After a general salute, sounded by native buglers, cheers were given for His Majesty. At many other ports and on the goldfields, the occasion was fittingly commemorated.

SOLOMON ISLANDS. —A large number of Europeans and natives witnessed the march past at Tulagi of the Armed Native Constabulary under the command of Capt.

Nelson Turner. The salute was taken by Mr. F. N. Ashley, Resident Commissioner.

At the Residency, prominent residents in cluding members of the Advisory Council and the Bishop of Melanesia were enter tained by the R.C. to dinner. Mr. W. H.

Miller, District Officer at Tulagi, arranged native, dances and entertainments, and a dance for local Europeans was held at his home in the evening.

WESTERN SAMOA.—Beautiful weather favoured the celebration of the Silver Jubilee at Apia. Residents and native chiefs gathered at Apia Court House where Brigadier-General H. E. Hart and Capt. Pairbrother, A.D.C., reviewed the guard of honour, comprising boys from

the Govt, school at Avele. A Royal Salute of 21 shots was fired by the pilot station battery. The Administrator addressed the gathering, giving a review of events during the King’s reign of 25 years.

PAPUA —May 6 was celebrated quietly at Port Moresby and all buildings were beflagged in recognition of the important occasion. His Excellency Sir Hubert Murray (Administrator of Papua) despatched a loyal message of devotion on behalf of British subjects—white and brown—in Papua.

COOK ISLANDS.— Celebrations for the King’s Jubilee were both general and particular. On the night of May 6, Rarotonga was ringed by a chain of bonfires lit on the heights above the six settlements. In Avarua the crescent sweep of the coast was a blazing hoop of fire behind which a torchlight procession of school children moved in glittering and orderly sequence. A large crowd collected on the Union Co.’s wharf and as the Resident Commissioner gave the signal, a volley of rifie-flre whined out into the darkness.

As those on the wharf broke into the National Anthem dozens of fires sprang up simultaneously along the whole length of the waterfront.

Thursday Island. The King’S

Jubilee was observed on Thursday Is. by a whole day’s programme of sports for the children. Social gatherings were held at the Town Hall at which loyal resolutions, moved by the Mayor and supported by Dr. Nimmo on behalf of the Returned Soldiers, were passed.

Jubilee Medal Awards

A special medal, designed by Sir William John, R.A., was struck for issue as a personal souvenir from His Majesty to prominent persons in the Empire. On the obverse side of the medal are the busts of the King and Queen in full court robes, and on the reverse side is the inscription G. surmounted at the crown with May 6, 1910, and May 6, 1935.

The following officials and residents in British territories in the South Seas were awarded a Silver Jubilee medal:— Western Pacific High Commission: Sir A. G.

Murchison Fletcher, K.C.M.G., C.B.E. (High Commissioner), Lady Fletcher, Captain Sir Maxwell H. Maxwell-Anderson, C.B.E., K.C., R.N. (Retd.), (Chief Judicial Commissioner and Acting High Commissioner), Lady Maxwell-Anderson, H.

H. Vaskess (Secretary to W.P. High Commission), Mrs. H. H. Vaskess.

Fiji; His Excellency Sir M. Fletcher (Governor), Lady Fletcher, Hon. A. A. Wright (Acting- Governor), Mrs. A. A. Wright, Capt. A. B. Ackland, A. J. Armstrong, Hon. A. L. Armstrong, E. L. Baker, Hon. T. W. A. Barker (Mayor of Suva), Mrs. T. W. A. Barker, Hon. J. P. Bayly, Hon. P. F. Boyd, Hon. J. Craig, R. Compton, C.B.E., K.C., Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. J. S.

Gamble, Capt. M. Godley, A.D.C., Dr. P. T. Harper, Hon. Sir Maynard Hedstrom, Lady Hedstrom, H. K. Irving, Hon. H. W. Jack, M.B.E., C. W.

T. Johnson, Major Clive B. Joske, M.C., A.D.C., Right Rev. L. S. Kempthorne (Bishop in Polynesia), Hon. Sir Henry Marks, C.B.E., Capt. Sir M. Maxwell-Anderson, Lady Maxwell-Anderson, Rev. R. L. McDonald, Hon. V. W. T. McGusty, Hon. H. C. Moncton, Dr. W. N. A. Paley, Hon.

A. H. B. Pearce, Hon. H. H. Ragg, A. H. Roberts, Hon. J. Russell, M.C., Mrs. J. Russell, Hon. Sir Henry Scott, K.C., Lady Scott, Hon. R. S. Thacker, Hon. J. M. Wilson, Major the Hon. W. E. Willoughby Tottenham, Mrs. W. E. Willoughby Tottenham, Hon. W. Wise, Hon. K. B. Singh, Hon.

M. Mudialiar, Sergeant-Major Indar Singh, Hon.

Ratu Popi Cakobau, Hon. Ratu J. L. V. Sukuna, Hon. Ratu Deve Toganivalu, I.S.O., Ratu Aisea Vasutosa, Solomon Is.: His Honour F. N. Ashley (Resident Commissioner), Mrs. F. N. Ashley, G. E. Clift (Member of Advisory Council), H. B. Hetherington, M.D., C.P. and S. (Senior M.O.), Mrs. H. B.

Hetherington, F. E. Johnson, I.S.O. (Treasurer), N. S. B. Kidson (Govt. Secretary). S. G. C. Knibbs (Commissioner of Lands), D. McKinnon (Member of Advisory Council), A. E. Osborne (Wireless Officer), E. N. Turner (Officer in Charge Native Constabulary), Miss C. Deck (S.S. Evangelical Mission), Edmund Bako (Headman, Ysabel), Timothy Kakaluae (Headman, Malaita), Sergeant- Major Sipolo.

Western Samoa: His Excellency the Administrator, Brigadier-General H. E. Hart, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., V.D., Mrs. H. E. Hart, A, C. Turnbull (Secretary to the Administration). Hon. I. H.

Carruthers, M.L.C., Hon. A. R. Cobcroft, M.L.C., Rev. H. S. Perkins (London Missionary Society).

Cook Is.: Judge H. F. Ayson, C.M.G. (Resident Commissioner), Dr. E. P. Ellison (Chief Medical Officer), E. A. Reid (Rarotonga Fruit Co.), J.

McGruther, Makea Tinirau Anki-nui, Makea Karika Takau Ariki.

Gilbert & Ellice Is.: His Honour J. C. Barley (Resident Commissioner), Mrs. J. C. Barley, S. G.

Clarke (Treasurer), Rev. G. H. Eastman (London Missionary Society), F. G. L. Holland, M.B.E. (Education .Superintendent), H. B. Maynard (British Phosphate Co.), Mrs. H. B. Maynard, G.

M. Murdoch (Abemama Is.), Major C. A. Swinbourne, O.B.E. (Senior Administrative Officer), Mrs. C. R. Swinbourne, Morning Star Kaure (Postmaster, Ocean Is.). Noa (Native Magistrate, Tabiteuea Is.), Paulo (Native Magistrate, Nanumea), New Hebrides: His Honour G. A. Joy (British Resident Commissioner), Mrs. G. A. Joy, R. D.

Blandy (Assistant to the Resident Commissioner), E. A. G. Seagoe, M.B.E. (District Agent, Efate).

Tonga: Her Majesty Salote Tubou, D.B.E. (Queen of Tonga), Hon. W. Tugi (Premier), J. S.

Neil (British Agent and Consul), Mrs. J. S. Neil.

Thursday Is.; Right Rev. S. Davies (Bishop of Carpentaria), Alderman Corran (T.I. Mayor), J. D.

McLean (Police Magistrate).

Pitcairn Island: R. E. Christian (Chief Magistrate).

List of recipients of Jubilee medals in New Guinea, Papua, and Norfolk Is. was published in the May issue of the “Pacific Islands Monthly.”