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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 August 1939Vol. X, No. 1

Sir Harry Luke In The

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Gilberts

Prom Our Own Correspondent

Tarawa, July 12.

SIR HARRY LUKE, C.M.G., Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, arrived here on July 1. in H.M.S. “Wellington” (Com mander Hyde-Smith ), accompanied by the Resident Commissioner of the G. & E.

Islands Colony, Mr. J. C. Barley.

Official visits were made to the Northern Gilberts and to Bairiki, headquarters of the Director of Education (Captain F. G.

L. Holland. M.8.E.) and the King George V. School for Boys. On July 7 His Excel lency and the Resident Commissioner left for the Southern Gilbert and Ellice Group. The official party was accom panied through the Central Gilbert Is lands District by the Acting Administra tive Officer, Mr. D. C. I. Wernham.

A new five-colour map of the Fiji Group has just been issued by the Lands and Survey Department, Suva.