Death Of Popular Former
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Fiji Governor
From Our Own Correspondent.
SUVA, Sept. 26.
IT was with deep regret that the people of Fiji learned of the death of that most popular former Governor of the Colony, Sir Eyre Hutson, who died in England after a short illness on Septem ber 14.
Sir Eyre Hutson’s association with Fiji went back to 1908, when he was appointed Colonial Secretary, after having served in the Colonial Service since 1885. Pre viously he had been in Barbados, Mauri tius, British Guiana, Jamaica, and Ber muda. He was Acting-Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific in 1915-16 and also in 1918, In which year he was appointed Governor of British Honduras until 1925, when he returned to Fiji as Governor, serving until he retired from the service in 1929.
He was born in August, 1864, was made a C.M.G. in 1911, and was created K.C.M.G. in 1922.
Rev. D. Macleod, M. 8., Ch.B., who has been working since 1930 under the John G. Paton Fund for the New Hebrides Presbyterian Mission, arrived in Sydney with his wife by the Morinda on October 6. He is stationed at Lenakel, West Tanna.