New Puisne Judge Appointment
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For Fiji
MR. W. DESMOND CAREW has been appointed Puisne Judge, Fiji, in succession to Mr. Justice Thomson.
Mr. Carew is expected to arrive in the Colony towards the end of this year. He is already known to many people in Fiji —he is the son of a former Medical Officer in the Colony and in 1921 after medical studies at Trinity College, Dublin, and after taking part in the 1914-18 war,
he was appointed to Fiji as an adminis trative cadet.
From 1923 to 1931 he served as District Officer in the old Province of Colo East, and at Rotuma. He was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn, London, in November, 1930. From 1931 until his secondment to the New Hebrides as British Judge in 1935, he served as Acting Police Chief Magistrate, Suva, and Police Magistrate, North West Viti Levu.
Mr. Carew was transferred to Malaya in 1940. During the war he was captured by the Japanese and was interned for over 3 h years.