Sir Harry Luke

, Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, announced on May 5 that he would be absent from Fiji for a short period. Mr. H. H. Vaskess was appointed to act, during his absence, as High Com missioner.

Mr. S. G. Clarke, a senior official of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, who is now in Sydney in charge of the Colony’s temporary office there, has been appointed Acting Resident Commis sioner of the Colony, with effect from March 25.

Mr. W. C. Brierly, well known in Fiji as a CSR Co. officer, before he came to Australia a few years ago, has received advice that his daughter, Mrs. F. M.

Crawford, escaped from Miri, Sarawak, with her husband and daughter, Raine, before the Japs occupied Borneo.