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Pacific Islands Monthly, 17 July 1945Vol. XV, No. 12

Tribute To Late Sir

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Hubert Murray

MANY people assembled in the rooms of the Royal Australian Historical Society on June 26, to hear a paper read by Mr. L. H. Hilder, entitled “A Great Australian Administrator Sir Hubert Murray.” The paper was prepared by Mrs. D. E. M. Cubis, MA, who now is abroad. Mr. Hilder was a close associate of the late Lieutenant-Governor. He was 25 years in the service of the Papuan Government, and for 19 of those years he was Clerk of the Legislative and Execu tive Council Money collected in Fiji for patriotic purposes since the outbreak of war amounts to well over a quarter of a mil lion pounds.