Fiji's New Governor

THE new Governor of Fiji, Mr. A. W.

G. H. Grantham, was expected to arrive in the Colony in early December.

The following is from the “Daily

Telegraph,” London, published when

his appointment was announced.

MR. A. W. G. H. GRANTHAM, the new Governor of Fiji, has been due for promotion for some time. He has held three “No. 2” jobs—as Colonial Sec retary in Bermuda and Jamaica, and latterly as Chief Secretary in Nigeria.

The Nigerian Civil Service rivals the Sudan Political in its record of turning out first-class administrators, and Mr.

Grantham is in the great tradition.

He has the lean, hawk-like face of a lawyer. A big portrait of his grandfather, Mr. Justice Grantham, hung ia his dining room in Lagos. Actually, he was at that well-known Army school, Wellington, and took the Sandhurst course at the end of the last war. Afterwards, he went to

Cambridge, and from there into the Colonial Service.

As Governor of Fiji and High Com missioner for the Western Pacific, he will have many contacts with the American military and civilian authorities. He will be greatly helped on the social side of these contacts by his wife, a vivacious American, with a wholly English en thusiasm for gardening.

The Rev. A. P. Jennings, of the Angli can Mission, Papua, is waiting in Aus tralia to return to New Guinea and his mission station.

Mr. A. Batchelor, of the Anglican Mis sion, is on his way to England, where he will represent the Bishop of New Guinea in the London Office.

In the Suva Grammar School examina tions at the end of 1944, Peter Sellers and Jennine Tarte were Dux of the boys and girls respectively; John Paige and Bar bara Leak were runners-up. Alec Gas pard won the Rodwell Cup for leadership.