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SQUADRON-LEADER Clive Brewster, formerly of Fiji and now of the RAAF, has been appointed Air Liaison Officer on General MacArthur’s staff at the General Headquarters of the South-west Pacific area. He was a fighter pilot in 1914-18; chairman of W. R. Car penter & Co. Ltd., of Fiji; Lieut.-Col. in the Fiji Defence Forces; and joined up in Australia in 1940 as a flying-officer.

After that he went steadily up the lad der and was finally CO of a big training school in Victoria.

Pilot-Officer Hector G. Pilling, aged 28, who was born in Fiji, and who was captain of a Stirling bomber, is officially reported “missing from operations over Germany, believed killed”. He took part in the attack on Lubeck. He is the only son of Sir Guy Pilling (British Agent in Zanzibar) and Lady Pilling. Sir Guy Pilling was in the British Colonial Ser vice in Fiji.

Mrs. A. C. Dickson, headmistress of the Suva Girls’ Grammar School, is at present in NZ on sick leave. She has been headmistress since 1936,