BSI Administrative
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Division Northern ond Southern Districts
From Our Own Correspondent
Honiara, Jan. 8.
THE British Solomon Islands Protec torate has now been divided experi mentally into two divisions for ad ministrative purposes Northern and Southern Solomons.
Northern Solomons comprises the Western and Central districts, with head quarters at Auki.
The two divisions are in charge of two Grade I, administrative officers newly ar rived in the Protectorate. Mr. P. Hughes (Divisional Officer, Northern) comes from a post in Basutoland. Mr. J. Germonde (Divisional Officer, Southern) .was formerly stationed in Bechuanaland.
There are now ten administrative offi cers on duty in the Protectorate, plus four away on leave.
Tulagi’S Glory Is Gone
TULAGI’S sole claim to fame these days is as Northern Solomons head quarters, Before the war it was, of course, the capital of BSI. The three houses left standing there after the fierce Tulagi campaign now house three ad ministrative officers and their wives. Mr.
Hughes occupies the old Residency; Dis trict Commissioner A. Davidson lives in Mr. “Spearline”'Wilson’s old home; and the newly-arrived Assistant District Com missioner, Mr. Johnson, on secondment from New Hebrides, has moved into the former postmaster’s old house.
The main Tulagi wharf, enlarged con siderably by the Americans, was recently patched up to allow handling of local shipping and cargo but it is still weak in places. Other war-time edifices, which were not bought as scrap by Messrs. W.
R. Carpenter & Co., are in an advanced state of decomposition.
Messrs. Carpenter still have a quantity of their vehicles, etc., which they pur chased from the US authorities, con centrated on the waterfront awaiting shipment at some future date.
There is also a mooring buoy for flying boats (BSIP possesses three at Tulagi, Honiara and Hobu Hobu) which has been used, to date, by visiting aircraft; but in good weather the new Honiara one (off Point Cruz) will supplant this.
A detachment of about 15 Solomon Is land Armed Constabulary is based on Tulagi for general duties.
Mrs. Douglas Higlet of Port Moresby was holidaying in Southport, Queensland in January.
Father Paul Sorin, who has been the business executive of the Yule Island Mission, Papua, for about ten years, has retired from the mission field, owing to persistent ill-health, and has gone to France. Father D. Coltre, who has spent 20 years in the mission field, at Yule Island, left Australia in February by the “Briancon”, on a visit to Italy.