Not Expected Until 1948

New Governor Of

Fiji

IT is not expected that the new Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for Western Pacific, Sir Brian Freeston, KCMG, will arrive in Suva much before December or January next.

Sir Brian has been Governor of the Leeward Islands (West Indies); and the British Colonial Office has decided to merge the Leeward and/ Windward Islands into one Administration; and the present Governor of the Windward Islands, Sir Arthur Francis Grimble (who served hi the South Pacific Islands for many years) has been appointed Gov ernor of the new Colony. Sir Brian Free ston therefore has a considerable job of “winding up” to do before he is free to take up his new appointment, and he probably will spend some time on leave m Europe after that work is finished.

The New Governor.

Photo by Fiji Public Relations Office.