Important Nigerian Job
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Harold Cooper For Important Nigerian Job
From Our Own Correspondent Suva. Oct. 2.
POPULAR Harold Cooper, of the Gov ernment Secretary's staff, Suva, Fiji, has been appointed Administrative Officer in Nigeria, from which post he will be seconded to that of Public Rela tions Officer (rumoured to carry a salary of £1,400 per annum). Mr. and Mrs.
Cooper expect to leave Fiji late in Octo ber.
Mr. Cooper has been in Fiji since April, 1940. During the war he organised Information Services in the Colony and as Information Officer, Fiji and Western Pacific, he made several tours of Pacific battle areas and wrote a number of des patches which were widely published and which later provided material for a book which was commissioned by the Ministry of Information.
Mr. Cooper later visited the United States, where he lectured on the war effort of the people of British territories in the South-West Pacific.
Mr. J. W. Beagley, director of the observatory at Apia, Western Samoa, arrived in Auckland in October for dis cussions with the NZ Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.