New Resident Commissioner
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of G. and E. Colony
MR. W. J. PEEL has been appointed Resident Commissioner of the Gil bert and Ellice Islands Colony, with headquarters at Tarawa. He replaces Mr.
H. E. Maude, who was recently appointed Deputy Secretary-General of the South Pacific Commission.
Mr. Peel, who was born in 1912, is mar ried and has two children. He was edu cated at Wellington College, Berkshire, and Queen’s College, Cambridge, where he obtained an Honours Degree in Law (8.A.). He passed the Bar Intermedia e examination in 1934.
He was appointed to the Colonial Ad ministrative Service as a cadet in the Malayan Civil Service in 1937; was in terned by the Japanese during the Pacific War; and after the war he acted as Bri:ish Resident in Brunei, Northern Borneo.