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Pacific Islands Monthly, 17 May 1945Vol. XV, No. 10

Knighthood For Fiji

p. 14 · Read in the full issue

Governor

AN article of cordial appreciation of Mrs. A. G. Grantham, of Suva, wife of the new Governor of Fiji, was published in the Honolulu “Star Bulle tin” of April 7. Mrs. Grantham formerly was Miss Maurine Samson, of Honolulu; and Mrs. and Mrs. Grantham recently spent eight days in that city. The article concludes with the following forecast: “It is understood that Governor Gran tham is to be knighted by King George in June. Mrs. Grantham will then become Lady Grantham. The Gover nor’s mother recently died in the south of England, where she made her home.”

Mr. Donald Junor, of Sands, Junor & Co., auditors, of Suva and Fiji, has been promoted to full Colonel, and now com mands the Central Signal Training Depot of the Australian Army in Victoria. At the commencement of the war, as a Captain, he organised the Signal Section of the Fiji Defence Force, but returned to the AIF as a Major. As a Lieut.- Colonel. he was recently Mentioned m Despatches.