Further New Year
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Honours
TWO people, well known to South Pacific residents, although not them selves Islands residents, received honours in the New Year.
One was Mr. P. J. Twomey, Secretary of the Leper Trust Board, New Zealand, who was made a member of the Order of the British Empire.
Mr. Twomey is well known for the enthusiasm with which he has raised money for the care of the lepers in the South Pacific. Many gifts have been made by the New Zealand Leper Trust Board to the Central Leper Hospital at Makogai, Fiji. Another again a New Zealander was Captain A. H. Prosser, who received the OBE.
Captain Prosser commanded a number of Union Steamship Company vessels during the war, among them the Matua.