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New Officers For
From Our Own Correspondent
Honiara. July 13.
THE new Treasurer to the BSI Govern ment, Mr. R. F. Rankine, arrived In Honiara by MV “Muliama” on July 12. Mr. Rankine’s last appointment was in Swasiland. He was accompanied by Mrs. Rankine and their three children.
They have taken up residence in a newly completed house on Vavaya Ridge, Honiara.
The newly-appointed Superintendent of the BSI Armed Constabulary, Mr.
Hugo Colchester-Wemyss, arrived here by the same ship. His wife and four months-old daughter followed him by plane from Sydney.
Mr. Colchester-Wemyss has been for
16 years In the Colonial Police Service, with experience in Palestine, Barbados and Jamaica. He was stationed for the past seven years in Jamaica, which has a population of one and a quarter mil lions and is roughly 4,000 miles in area.
Principal exports are sugar, rum, cigars, bananas and coconuts —and just recently a play by Noel Coward, who has a Jamaican property to which he retired to write his latest opus, which is called “South Sea Bubble.”