Retirement of Mr. J. Judd From Fiji District Administration
pp. 29-30 · Read in the full issue
Fiji District Administration
AFTER 34 years service in Fiji, Mr. J.
Judd retires from the District Ad ministration. After leave in Aus tralia he will take up work in connection with the Fiji Native Land, Trust Board.
His place as District Commissioner Southern will be filled by Mr. G. K. Roth.
Mr. Judd was appointed a Sub-Inspector of Constabulary in June. 1915, and re mained in the Police until 1924, when he became a District Commissioner. He has since served in almost every district in the Colony.
In 1927 he went to India on a special mission in connection with the re-emigra tion of Indians. Before the post was abolished, he acted on a number of oc casions as Secretary for Indian Affairs.
Mr. Judd has held many public offices during his long service in Fiji. He has been a member of Legislative Council, a member of the Suva Town Board, chair man of the Publicity Board, a member of the Board t)f Education, the Mining Board and the Board of the Trustees of the Fliji Museum. He was Deputy Chairman of the Coronation Committee in 1936, and in 1938 was appointed chairman of the committee to organise Fiji’s exhibits at the New York World Pair and the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition. He has been a member of the Boards of Examiners in both Fijian and Hindustani and, for a time, he was a member of the Civil Service Board.
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Wauchope, of Ma dang, New Guinea, who have spent several weeks in Australia —in the course of which they were present at the wedding of their daughter—returned to New Guinea by the “Malaita” at the end of March.
The New Guinea coastal ship, ‘‘Mai muna,” broke a fuel line and drifted helplessly out of fuel for some time near the Witu Islands on March 30. The Fairymead Sugar Company ship, “Cy rena,” went to her assistance and sup plied her with sufficient fuel to make Rabaul.