Birthday Honours For
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Pacific Residents
KING’S Birthday Honours were awarded recently as follows;
0.8. E. (Civil Division)
Rev. C. O. Lelean, Chairman of the Methodist Mission in Fiji from 1936 till 1938, who served the Mission in Fiji for 34 years. He left the Colony to live in retirement in Australia last March.
Mr. J. M. Wilson, M.8.E., Comptroller of Customs since 1930 and a member of the staff of the Customs Department since 1905.
M.B.E. (Civil Division)
Mr. D. Mackinnon, Unofficial Member of the Solomon Islands Advisory Council since its inception in 1921.
The only honours previously conferred in the Solomon Islands were the C.M.G. to Mr. C. M. Woodford, the first Resi dent Commissioner, on his retirement about 25 years ago; and to Mr. F. N.
Ashley, the present Resident Commis sioner, at the Coronation. A few years ago the I. S. O. was awarded to Mr. F. E.
Johnson. Treasurer and Collector of Cus toms.