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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1949Vol. XIX, No. 12

Officialdom’S Roundabout

p. 43 · Read in the full issue

In Fiji

From Our Own Correspondent

SUVA, June 22.

ANOTHER temporary move-around among Fiji’s high official posts is in dicated. The present Acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. D. McDonald, will leave for New Zealand on June 27, on his way to Great Britain, where he will spend vacation leave.

Mr. McDonald has been Acting Colonial Secretary since Mr. J. F. Nicoll left to be come Colonial Secretary at Hongkong.

When Mr. McDonald goes on leave, the Financial Secretary, Mr. R. M. Taylor, will act as Colonial Secretary until the arrival, in September, of the Colonial Secretary designate, Mr. A. F. R. Stod dart, and Mr. P. H. Nightingale will act as Financial Secretary.

It is assumed that during any absences of the Governor, Sir Brian Freeston, from Suva (His Excellency and Lady Freeston will visit Vanua Levu from July 3 to July 10). the Financial Secretary, as Acting Colonial Secretary, will be Gover nor’s Deputy.