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Officials

From Our Brisbane Correspondent

Honiara, Jan. 9.

DEPARTED from the Protectorate on January 8 four well-known identi ties:—Major G. E. D. Sandars, Dr. and Mrs. A. G. Rutter, and Dr. Dovi.

Major Sandars is on leave prior to re tirement, after an early 20 years’ service in the Solomons. He entered Government service in 1928, as Sub-Inspector of Con stabulary, shortly after the murder of Mr. Bell and Mr. Lillies on Malaita.

He subsequently joined the adminis trative service and became District Offi cer, Malaita, in April, 1936. He was a member of the Advisory Council in 1939- 40, when Government Secretary, and he had a year’s secondment in New Hebrides in 1941-42. He will be greatly missed by the natives of Malaita and all Protec torate residents.

Dr. Rutter came to the Protectorate in 1938 as a doctor with the Methodist Mis sion, and after the Jap invasion made a precarious escape by small vessel to Aus tralia. Later he went on to New Zealand to join Mrs. Rutter, who had been evacu ated earlier.

Soon after Dr. Rutter returned to BSIP in 1944, he was appointed Senior Medi cal Officer and held that post through what was probably the most difficult period in the Protectorate’s history. Mrs.

Rutter has filled radiography duties at Central Hospital, Matanikau.

With their three children they are off to England, where Dr. Rutter will do a post-graduate course in surgery at the British Post-Graduate Medical School, at Hammersmith Hospital. The new SMO has not yet been appointed but in the in terim Dr. Freeman wil be acting-SMO.

Dr. Dovi, popular Fijian medical officer who has been serving on Malaita for the past two years, is also going to England

to do a post-graduate course in general medical and chest diseases at Hammer smith Hospital.