Mr. R. H. Garvey

Administrator of St. Vincent, West Indies

MR. RONALD H. GARVEY, recently a District Commissioner in Nyassa land, Central Africa, has been appointed Administrator of St. Vincent, in the Windward Islands, West Indies, and he was in London in March, en route to his new office.

Mr. Garvey was in the South Pacific Territories for many years, in the ser sce of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, and became one of the best-known and highly-regarded public officials in this part of the world. He was Assistant British Commissioner in the New Hebrides in 1941; then he was sent to Ocean Island as Acting Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Colony, and he was there in December, 1941, when the Japs came over and blew the Residency to pieces. Mr. Garvey was among those who escaped to Australia in 1942; and. later in that year, he went to Nyassaland.

Mrs. Garvey is a daughter of Dr- V. W.

T. McGusty, Director of Medical Services and Secretary for Indian Affairs, in Fiii.

Mr. Garvey, in his new post, will be associated with his old chief. Sir Harry Luke, formerly Governor of Fiji. Sir Harry is now Chief Representative of the British Council in the West Indies and Bermuda —a new position which carries a supervising and co-ordinating authority over nine separate colonies.

The British Council, which is a new thing, with headouarters in London, is regarded with interest, because it mav be the precursor of the system of Regional Councils, by which it is honed to estab lish a form of international co-oneration against war, at the conclusion of World War IT.