G. and E. Officers

Garvey For Africa :: Fox- Strangways Awaits Orders

IT is reported that Mr. Ronald H.

Garvey, who went to Ocean Island from the New Hebrides in October to act as Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Colony, has arrived in Suva, en route to his new appointment in Nyasaland, Central Africa. He was in Ocean Island when the Japanese declared war, and he saw the fine new Residency there blown to pieces by a bomb on December 10.

Mr. Fox-Strangways, who arrived in Australia from Nyasaland in November, en route to assume office as Resident Commissioner in the G. and E. Colony and who returned to Sydney after being turned back in the Central Pacific, was seconded for service in the Solomons, and he had temporary charge of the de fence forces there. He at present is in Sydney, awaiting orders.