Officials Honoured In Fiji.
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From Our Own Correspondent.
Suva, Jan. 4.
TWO Government officials received New Year Honours in the Colony of Fiji.
They were:— Mr. F. R. Charlton, Commissioner of Lands and Surveys, and Mr. H. H. Vaskess, Secretary to the Western Pacific High Commission.
Both were created Officers of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
Mr. E. A. Lang, mining engineer on the staff of New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., left Sydney for Wau, T.N.G., by the
January “Montoro”.
Mr. C. J. Easton, one of the best known men in the Ba District, died in Fiji in December. A surveyor, he had spent 40 years ago in the colony, much of which was in the service of the
Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Ltd.