Solomons Administrator Makes

Brief Visit

LIEUT-COL. W. S. Marchant, CMG, Resident Commissioner of BSI, re cently visited his wife in Sydney. He has now returned to the Solomons where, although civil administrative machinery is temporarily suspended, he and Adminis tration personnel are co-operating with the American forces.

It was reported in the November issue of the “PIM” how Lieut.-Colonel Marchant refused to leave the Protectorate when the civil evacuation occurred at the be

ginning of this year, and how he and his staff moved from Tulagi at the end of April, when it appeared certain that a Japanese invasion of the area was im minent, and made their headquarters in a previously-prepared place elsewhere in the group. For his good service he was awarded the CMG.

Lieut.-Col. W. S. Marchant, CMG.