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Zanzibar
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, March 30.
'lyi'R. A. Hallam Roberts, Chief Police Magistrate of Fiji, who is at present acting Attorney General, has received notice of his transfer on promotion to the protectorate of Zanzibar as Magistrate and Crown Counsel.
Mr. Roberts, who is a Bachelor of Arts of Jesus College, Cambridge, and a Barrister-at-Law of the Inner Temple, came to Fiji as a cadet in the Colonial Service. He served in various capacities in the Colonial Secretary’s Office and in the District Administration, but resigned in 1920 from the service and took up cotton planting in Vanua Levu.
In 1927 he rejoined as Registrar of the Supreme Court and was appointed Chief Police Magistrate in August, 1931. Mr.
Roberts has acted as Attorney-General on several occasions.
Mr. Josiah Henry Waller, formerly proprietor of the Pacific Printery, Suva, Fiji, who for four months had been editor of the Samoa Herald at Apia, sailed for New Zealand by the Monterey from Pago Pago (American Samoa) on March 14. Mr. J. Liston, printer, of Apia, has now taken over the editorship of the Samoan weekly newspaper.