Birthday Honours
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rE following Birthday Honours were announced in Suva on June 13:— QBE (Military) Lieut.-Colonel A. H. Stafford, ED, Act ing Commandant of the Fiji 'Military Forces.
MBE (Civil) Mrs. L. C. Bentley.
Mrs. A. M. Bode. (Mrs. Bentley and Mrs. Bode played a leading part during the war in organis ing women’s patriotic services in Suva.) Mr. P. T. English, of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. (At the time of the first Japanese raid on Tarawa, Mr. English destroyed much of the oil in store before it could be seized by the enemy.) Mr. J. A. Johnstone, Second-in-Com mand of the British Solomon islands Labour Corps.
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Mr. H. H. Vaskess, QBE, Secretary to the Western Pacific High Commission.
QBE (Civil) The Rev. G. H. Eastman, of the London Missionary Society. (The Rev. G. H. Eastman has been sta tioned in the Gilbert Islands since 1918.) BEM (Civil) Alan Maekale, an NCO in the British Solomons Islands Armed Constabulary and a District Headman for over 30 years, Peter Waitusu, Headman in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate since 1918.