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Pacific Islands Monthly, 26 May 1937Vol. VII, No. 10

Fiji's Governor

p. 6 · Read in the full issue

To Visit Hebrides, Solomons, and G. and E. Colony

From Our Own Correspondent.

Suva, May 6.

TO acquaint himself with the territories * under his jurisdiction as High Com missioner for the Western Pacific, Sir Arthur Richards, K.C.M.G., will sail from Suva on board H.M.B. Leith on June 15 on a tour of the Pacific.

Proceeding first to the New Hebrides, he will spend 12 days in the Condomi nium before leaving for Tulagi, 8.5.1.

After three weeks in the Solomons, he will then sail for the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony remaining there for an other three weeks.

His Excellency will return to Suva, via Rotuma, about the middle of August.

Described as “the first descendant of a Bounty mutineer ever to return to England from Pitcairn Island,” David Young, 61, arrived at Southampton in May, aboard the Arawa to attend the Coronation.