Gilbert and Ellice

Government Mr. J. C. Barley Retires

j|/|R. J. C. Barley has retired from the IVI position of Resident Commissioner in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, and he relinquished duty at Ocean Island this month.

Mr. R. H. Garvey, MBE, who has been Assistant to the British Resident Com missioner in the New Hebrides Con-

dominium for over a year, has gone to Ocean Island as Acting Resident Com missioner.

Mr. Barley was formerly in the ad ministrative ' service in the Solomon Islands, where he contracted severe malaria; and he has suffered a good deal of illness since he became Resident Commissioner in the G. and E. Colony in 1933. He has many friends in the South Pacific, where he has spent the whole of his official life (he entered the Solomons, first, as a cadet, in 1912) and he will carry their best wishes with him into retirement.

Mr. V. Fox-Strangways, District Officer in Nyasaland, has been appointed RC in the G. and E. Colony.

Mr. Garvey has been appointed DO in Nyasaland, and will proceed thither when Mr. Fox-Strangways arrives. Mr.

Garvey, though quite young—he entered the service only in 1926—has had a dis tinguished career in the Pacific. He was Acting RC in the G. and E. Colony in 1939. Acting Secretary to the High Com missioner in 1940, and Acting RC in the New Hebrides in 1940.

Two recent arrivals in Rabaul. TNG, to join the AWA staff were Mr. W, F.

Brown, from South Australia, and Mr.

W. W. Watson, from Tasmania.

Mr. Jack Barley.