Opened in Sydney
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Fiji Office
AN officer representing the Govern ment of Fiji and the High Com mission of the Western Pacific has opened an office on the ground floor of 72 Pitt Street, Sydney, which will be a liaison between those Governments and the Australian departments of supply.
He is Mr. B. F. Blackwell, well known in Fiji and the New Hebrides, where he held important posts. Telephone is BW 7724.
It is a temporary wartime arrange ment. It would not be surprising if it became permanent, however. There will
be much official and commercial traffic along this channel after the war.
The office of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Government, opened early in 1942 by the Treasurer (Mr. S. G. Clarke) in Sydney, after the Jap invasion, has been moved to Suva. Now that the enemy is gone from the Gilberts, it is presumed that some part of the Colony’s administrative machinery will function there again.
The Solomons Islands Government office, opened in Sydney in 1942, is still functioning there.
Mr. Lloyd Smythe, of Suva, Fiji, has graduated Bachelor of Science, with first-class honours, at Sydney University.