New British Consul at Tahiti

From Our Own Correspondent PAPEETE, April 16. ■\fß. F. G. Gorton, for many years H.B.M. Consul General in Saigon (French Indo China), arrived recently by the Ville d’Amiens to take charge of the British Consulate in Tahiti.

Mr. Gorton, who is now on the retired list, passed most of his official career in Siam, Dutch East Indies, Indo China, and other places in the East. He is, therefore, a man of cosmopolitan experience who may be expected to fit into Tahiti’s pe culiar conditions, and it is sincerely hoped that his stay will be a long and happy one.

The former British Consul at Tahiti was Dr. W. J. Williams, who retired owing to continued ill-health.