Twenty Years A

Consul

Dr. Williams Retires from Tahiti

From Our Own Correspondent

Papeete, Jan. 22.

DR. W. J. WILLIAMS, for more than 20 years H.B.M. Consul in Tahiti, has re signed that position as the result of fail ing health, and is to be succeeded by an appointee from London, who is expected to take charge of the post in March.

Dr. Williams, who went down under a very severe attack of influenza in Janu ary, 1935, spent a few months’ leave of absence in America, where he partially recovered. Very soon after his return, however, he experienced a serious relapse, from which happily he now seems to be slowly recuperating.

According to his medical adviser our late Consul, whose resignation will be sin cerely regretted by the British community in Tahiti, will be obliged to undergo a long period of rest in a temperate climate in order to fully regain his strength.

Mr. A. de Jersey Carey, British Judge of the Anglo-French court of the New Heb rides, arrived in Sydney en route to England on furlough by the Laperouse on February 1.

Messrs. E. Murphy and H. D. McLach lan have been appointed to the Board of Directors of Golden Deeps, N.L., which is carrying out goldmining investigations in New Guinea.