Mr. R. D. Blandy

New Resident Commissioner In New Hebrides

MR. R. D. Blandy, who has been Act ing British Resident in the New Hebrides, has been appointed Resi dent Commissioner in place of Mr. G. A.

Joy, who has been transferred to Makulla, Arabia (about 400 miles east of Aden).

Makulla is the home of the Sultan, and Mr. Joy will act as British Adviser.

He is the intermediary between the British Administration at Aden, and the Sultan. It is a promotion which gives great satisfaction to his old friends in the New Hebrides.

Mr. R. H. Garvey, of Fiji, succeeds Mr. Blandy as Assistant Resident Com missioner in the New Hebrides.

Captain R. D. Blandy was born in 1891 and educated at Victoria College, Jer sey. He entered the Indian Police at the age of 20, joined the Indian Army four years later, and saw active service on the North West frontier and in Mesopotamia. In 1919 he rejoined the Indian Police, and was a district super intendent in 1920. In 1928, he was appointed chief of international police at Tangier, and in 1929 he was transferred to the New Hebrides as assistant to the Resident Commissioner.

Mr. Ronald Herbert Garvey, M.A. (Cantab.), F.R.A.1., is 37 years of age, and was educated at Trent College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He joined the Fiji and Western Pacific ser vice, as cadet, in 1926; was appointed assistant district officer at Mala in April, 1929, and district officer the fol lowing year. Mr. Garvey was assistant secretary to the Western Pacific High Commission in August, 1932, and Act ing Secretary in 1932-33-34.

Professor Peter Buck, Director of the Bishop Museum at Honolulu, has post poned his projected visit to New Zea land and Tonga, owing partly to war conditions and partly to the death of his friend Mr. Albert Judd, who was chair man of the Museum Board and who pro posed to collect native history specimens in Tonga.