A. L. Armstrong Retires

From Fiji Service

ANOTHER well-known man who has given long service to Fiji has retired and left the Colony. He is Mr. A.

L. Armstrong, who entered the Govern ment Service in 1915, and who has had a variety of important posts in the inter vening years.

In 1937, he went to Tonga as British Agent and Consul, and he relinquished

tms post in 1943, when he became Commissioner for Reconstruction in Fiji.

Mr. Armstrong is to go to London with the plans prepared for post war reconstruction, and after he has discussed these with the Colonial Office he is to go on leave prior to retirement.

At a special cere mony before ho left, the Fijian Civil Ser vants, resident in

Suva, farewelled Mr. Armstrong and pre sented him with a letter, in which they said: “No one knows better than we do that through long years of work and labour in Fiji in various capacities your life service has been devoted very largely to the well-being of the Fijian race. All of us who have been fortunate enough to work under you in various branches of the Service agree that we have served under a kind and able leader, a man and a gentleman. The fruits of your labours here are well-known to Chiefs and people and will not be easily forgotten. We wish you and Mrs. Armstrong bon voyage and a safe arrival in England, and may God grant you both many happy years of re tirement.”

Miss Lila Hayes, at present a lecturer in bacteriology, at Otago University, NZ, but a former pupil at the Suva Grammar School, recently received the degree of Master of Home Science. Her parents live at Sigatoka, Fiji.

Mr. A. L. Armstrong.