Fiji Government's Sydney
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Office Is Closed
THE office of the Fiji Supply and Pro duction Board (representing the Fiji Government and the Western Paci fic High Commission), which was opened at 72 Pitt Street, Sydney, in 1943, has been closed. The Board’s representative.
Mr. B. F. Blackwell, who came from the New Hebrides to take up this position, now is clearing up the last of the Aus
tralian business at his private residence (60a Murdoch Street, Cremorne, Sydney —telephone XM 1333), pending his re turn to the New Hebrides.
During the black days of the Pacific War, four separate British Administra tions had special representatives in offices in Sydney—the Governments of Fiii, Solomon Islands, Gilbert and Ellice Islands and Hi°h Commission for the Western Pacific. As each Administra tion has moved back towards normal, the Sydney offices have been closed.
Dr. J. E. Streeter, who, at one time, was Acting Chief Medical Officer in Papua, died at his home in East Bris bane on January 2. After serving in World War I, he settled in a practice in Brisbane.
A group of De La Salle Brothers will leave for the Papuan vicariate, New Guinea, early /this year to 'assist the Sacred Heart mission fathers. Two mem bers of the group are the Rev. Brothers Lucien, of Richmond, and Anthony, of Kew, Victoria.