Colonial Service Men in Far East

Far East

THE following members of the British Colonial Service, well known in the Pacific, were (says the “Fiji Times”) among the public officials who were in Hongkong and Malaya when those places were over-run by the Japanese:—

Straits Settlements And

Malaya

Sir Percy McElwaine, KC, Chief Justice, formerly Attorney-General in Fiji.

Mr. C. G. Howell, KC, Attorney-General, formerly Attorney-General in Fiji.

Mr. T. T. Russell, former Resident Magistrate at Suva. Mrs. Russell was evacuated to New Zealand.

Mr. W. D. Carew, formerly British Judge of the Joint Court, New Hebrides.

Commander W. Burrows, RN, formerly a District Commissioner in Fiji, now ser ving with the Royal Navy.

Mr. L. Russell, formerly a headmaster of Provincial Schools in Fiji, and latterly with the Malayan Education Department.

Mr. J. S. Smith, recently Conservator of Forests in Fiji, with Mrs. Smith and family, left Fiji on leave and to return to Malaya recently.

Hongkong

Mr. P. J. A. Hamilton, formerly Auditor in Fiji.

Sister Maureen Carew, formerly of the Fiji Nursing Service, but seconded to the Hongkong service in 1940.

Mr. H. W. Forsyth, formerly an en gineer in the Public Works Department in Fiji.

Mr. George Aumuller, who was manager of the Samarai (Papua) branch of Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd. until the evacuation, and who was a member of the Legislative Council of Papua, has retired from the BP service, and has settled down in Sydney for the present. Hundreds of people who have visited the Aumuller home, on the top of Samarai, will hope that, when the shooting is over, they will see Mr. Aumuller, and his charming and hospitable wife, back in the Territory again. They retain many interests there.