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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1949Vol. XX, No. 5

of Fiji

p. 11 · Read in the full issue

Promotion for P. D. Macdonald of Fiji

MR. P. D. MACDONALD, who held the post of Assistant Colonial Secretary, Fiji, has been appointed Colonial Secretary, Leeward Islands.

Mr. Macdonald, who is at present on leave in the United Kingdom, served in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony as an Administrative Officer from 1932 un til 1940, when he was appointed an Assistant Secretary, Western Pacific High Commission. .

In 1942, he was seconded to Trinidad as Assistant Colonial Secretary, and in 1946 was transferred to Fiji.

The report of Mr. E. B. Rice, Director of Dairying, Queensland, on the Dairy Industry in Fiii, with particular reference to the costs of production of butterfat has been published as a Council Paper Copies are available at the Government Press, Suva. The price is 47-