Birthday Honours

For Fiji

OBE for Dr. Hoodless

rE following awards to Fiji residents, were announced in the recent Birth day Honours: QBE: Dr. D. W. Hoodless B.Sc.,

L.M.S.S.A.

MBE: Setariki M. Koto.

Colonial Police Medal; Superin

tendent B. F. Hooper.

Dr. D. W. Hoodless, OBE, retired last year from the post of Principal of the Central Medical School, Fiji. He served in the Education Department of the Colony from 1912 to 1930, becoming As sistant Director of Education in 1927. In 1930, when the Central Medical School was established. Dr. Hoodless was ap pointed Tutor. The title of the post was later changed to Principal.

Setariki Koto. MBE. has been asso ciated with the work of the Native Lands Commission, Fiji, since July, 1916.

Superintendent B. F. Hooper, who has been awarded the Colonial Police Medal, first became a member of the Fiji Police Force in 1929. He was appointed an As sistant Superintendent in 1938 and Super intendent in 1943.