New Governor Bound for Fiji

Q!R ARTHUR RICHARDS, on his way to take lip his new appointment as Govf™' Fiji and High Commissioner for tne Western Pacific, arrived in Sydney on November 12, on the liner Strathnaver. He was accompanied by Lady Richards and their three children—Diana, aged eight, rraser, who is six, and three-months-old Michael, rrom 1934 to 1936 Sir Arthur Richards was Governor of Gambia, West Africa, and

before that was Governor of North Borneo.

In 1929 he was Adviser to the Government of Johore (Malay States), and before that was for 25 years a member of the Malayan Civil Service, in which he held a number of important appointments, Sir Arthur left Sydney by the Axoatea on November 13 for Auckland. From Auckland he will go to Fiji by the motor ship Matua and expects to reach Suva on November 27.

Sir Arthur Richards, with his wife and two of their children.