Mr. A. T. Newboult

For Colonial Office

AFTER a little over a year in Fiji as Colonial Secretary, Mr. A. T. New boult is to be transferred to the Colonial Office on special duty. He is expected to leave the Colony shortly. Be fore his Fiji appointment, he served in Malaya, and arrived in Suva on June 22, 1942.

Of his term in the Colony, the Fiji “Times and Herald” makes this com ment: — “In the short time he has been here he has proved himself a most courteous and obliging official, particularly in his relations with the general public, a marked contrast to the more stereotyped class of Government official of the past.

Mrs. Newboult has taken a great interest in patriotic work since her arrival in Fiji, and was responsible for the formation of the Women’s Voluntary Service and the starting of the penny-a-week fund in aid of prisoners of war.”