Colonial Secretary

Mr. Trevor Johnson To

Leave Fiji

Mr. A. T. Newboult Appointed Colonial Secretary

MR. C. W. Trevor Johnson, who has been Colonial Secretary of Fiji for some three years, has been trans ferred to another position in the British Colonial Service. Mr. A. T. Newboult, lately in Malaya, has been appointed Colonial Secretary in Fiji.

Mr. Trevor Johnson entered the Fijian Service in 1910, and. except for a brief period in Fanning Island, he has been all his official life in Suva, in the ser vice of either the Fiji Government or Western Pacific Commission, where he mounted the Public Service ladder, stead ily and successfully. He is held in high regard, both officially and socially, and his departure from Suva will leave a definite gap.

Mr. Newboult is 46 years old. He went to Malaya in 1920, and held many important positions in the Malay States between 1920 and 1942, when the country was over-run by the Japanese.