Mr. K. H. Garvey

Promoted to Governorship Rank

MANY people in the South Pacific were interested to learn that Mr. Ronald H. Garvey, CMG, MBE, who has been Administrator of St. Vincent since 1943, has been appointed Governor of British Honduras.

Mr. Garvey is in his early forties, and he spent most of his British Colonial Service in the South Seas—mostly with the High Commission for the Western Pacific. He filled a wide variety of posts in Fiji, Solomons, New Hebrides and G & E Colony, and he was Acting Resident Commissioner in the latter Colony when the Japs invaded in 1942. He and his staff remained at their posts in Ocean Island until April, 1942, when all except a handful (who were afterwards murdered by the Japs) were removed under cover of darkness by a very fast Free French destroyer.

Mr. Garvey was appointed to Tan ganyika shortly afterwards, and he moved on to the West Indies in 1943. His wife is a daughter of Dr. V. W. T.

McGusty, OBE, who held the post of Director of Medical Services and Secre tary for Indian Affairs in Fiji for many years, apd is now retired. Mr. and Mrs.

Garvey were notable for their charming social qualities, and were popular in all Territories.