For Kenya

Sir Philip Mitchell

New Fiji Appointment Made

IT was announced by the Colonial Office, London, in September, that Sir Philip Mitchell, who has been Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific since 1942, has been appointed Governor of Kenya, in place of Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore.

Sir Phillip’s two years of office in Fiji coincided with the most acute period of the Pacific war —a period that had tre mendous repercussions on the domestic set-up of Fiji and the other WP Terri tories. Fiji, at the cross-roads of the Pacific, naturally became a great Allied base; and Sir Philip an indefatigable worker for the Allied cause, personally

shaping and leading the Colony’s war effort and continually travelling to all inter-linked war areas.

Fiji’s contribution to the war effort, both in men and money, has been mag nificent—and for this Fiji’s war-minded Governor, who attacked wartime prob lems with great singleness of mind, must take due credit.

He served in the last war and then entered the Colonial Service, serving in various capacities in Africa. In 1935 he became Governor of Uganda, and in 1941 was appointed political adviser to Gen eral Wavell. Before coming to Fiji, he was chief political officer to the Com mander-in-Chief, East Africa.

THE new Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Paci fic is Mr. Alexander William George Herder Grantham, who is at present Chief Secretary to the Government of Nigeria. He is a graduate of Sandhurst and Cambridge, and served in World War I in the 18th Hussars. He has had Colonial Service posts at Hong Kong, Bermuda, Jamaica and Nigeria. He is a comparatively young man—4s years of age.

Service installations and utilities in Papua and New Guinea would be retained for the use of peacetime civil Adminis trations, External Territories Minister Ward said recently.

Sir Philip Mitchell.