Appointments To The Fiji

Government

Mr. J. Granger Johnson, Manag

ing director of W. R. Carpenter & Co., Ltd., Suva, paid a flying visit to Sydney in early November. He re cently was appointed to the Legislative Council of Fiji by the retiring Governor, Sir Philip Mitchell. It was an appoint ment cordially approved in Suva, where hard-working “Tui” Johnson is held in high esteem.

IT was announced in Suva, in September, that Messrs. H. H. Ragg and F. L.

Smith (manager of the Suva branch of the Bank of New Zealand) would be nominated unofficial members of the Executive Council, on the retirement in October of Mr. R. Crompton, KC, CBE, and R. Howard Ellis.

Capt. Charbonnier, of the French Army Medical Service, has arrived in Noumea from Algiers. He is on his way to Wallis Island, a New Caledonian dependency used in this war as a US naval base. He will replace Capt. Mattel.