Death Of K. J. Allardyce
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From Our Own Correspondent
Suva, May 2.
■“PHE death occurred at Nabavatu, in * the Lau Group, on April 14, of Mr.
Kenneth James Allardyce, M.8.E., a former Secretary for Native Affairs in Fiji.
Mr. Allardyce, who was born in Scot land in 1881, was a brother of the late Sir William Allardyce, former Governor of Tasmania and Newfoundland. He joined the Fiji Civil Service as a clerk and later became a cadet, rising through the various grades of the service as a District Commissioner until he became Secretary for Native Affairs. He served in the Great War as officer in charge of the Fiji labour corps.
Some years ago he retired from the service and went into partnership with Mr. G. M. Hennings, running Naitauba and Nabavatu as copra estates. The partnership was dissolved in 1920 and Mr.
Allardyce continued to conduct Nabavatu on his own account. On several occasions he returned to the service in a temporary capacity as District Commissioner, Lau, and Resident Commissioner, Rotuma.