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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 March 1939Vol. IX, No. 8

for 15th Time

p. 26 · Read in the full issue

Mr. Chompion is Acting-Governor for 15th Time

From Our Own Correspondent

Pt. Moresby, Feb. 20.

Hon. h. w. champion, c.b.e., Papua’s Government Secretary and the senior member of the Executive Council, has been sworn in to act as Lieutenant Governor of the Territory during the absence on furlough of Sir Hubert Murray.

This is the fifteenth occasion on which Mr. Champion has been Acting Adminis trator, and the total duration of his ten ure of the office amounts to several years.