Fiji Medical Officer Retires
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Suva, October 13.
AFTER 26 years in Fiji, Dr. H. S. Evans of the Medical Department, has been granted leave prior to retirement.
He entered the Fiji Government ser vice in 1920, and was District Medical Officer and District Commissioner in Lau and Taveuni. In 1927 he was sec onded for 21 years as a Medical Officer to the Belgian Congo, Northern Rho desia Boundary Commission. He returned to Fiji in 1930, and served in Lau, Ra, Taveuni and Rewa. In 1940 he conducted a medical survey in Rotuma. In 1944 he was appointed Assistant Director of Medical Services, and lately had been acting as Director.
Mr. R. G. Looker, who has been appointed Assistant Postmaster-General, Fiji, arrived in Suva by air from Auckland on October 3. He is on secondment from the New Zealand Department of Posts and Telegraphs.