New Governor of Fiji

Sir Leslie Freeston

riIHE appointment of Sir Leslie Brian JL Freeston as Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific was announced on August 7. He is at present Governor of the Leeward Islands, West Indies.

Sir Leslie was born in 1892, educated at Oxford, served in World War I, and joined the Colonial Office in 1919. He was engaged during the first 15 years of his service there mostly on special com missions, in the course of which he visited Ceylon, the Far East, the West Indies and various parts of Africa.

Sir Walter Carpenter and Mr. C. H.

Carpenter, directors of the Carpenter group of companies (now based, on Aus tralia New Guinea, Fiji and Canada) left Sydney on August 14 for Vancouver. They will remain indefinitely in Canada. Mr.

R B Carnenter who returned from Canada a few months ago, will be the princinal resident Director in Australia, for the present.

Mr. Keith Colyer, of Colyer, Watson <NG) Ltd, proceeded from Sydney to Rabaul on a business trip at the begin ning of July.