New Fiji Governor in Australia

Australia

rE new Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Major-General Sir Philip Mitchell, recently paid a brief visit to Australia and to New Caledonia. He was accompanied by his military secretary, Colonel Young.

Sir Philip Mitchell was the guest of the Governor-General of Australia, at Canberra, during a short visit to the Federal capital. During the few hours he spent in Sydney he was entertained at luncheon by the directors of Dalgety and Co. Ltd. (agents of the Fiji Govern ment) and met a number of people con nected with Pacific affairs.

Those who met the new Governor in Sydney were favourably impressed by an unusual personality. He came to the Pacific with the reputation of being a man who always is prepared to employ unorthodox methods in order to get things done quickly—and his quiet, calm, direct manner, and his habit of going straight to the heart of any subject, bear out this reputation.

In conversation, Sir Philip expressed his keen personal gratification with the manner in which all classes and races in Fiji had responded to his request for the utmost co-operation in support of the war effort of the United Nations.

The death occurred in September of Mr. A. P. Proctor, 48, who had been accountant for Morris Hedstrom, Ltd., in Apia, Western Samoa, since 1933. He went from the Fiji Government service to that of Morris Hedstrom, Ltd., in 1917, and filled various positions in Fiji for that firm before his transfer to Samoa.