New Year Honours

THE following were included in the list of New Year Honours granted by the King at the end of the year:—

Order Of British Empire

Commander Mr. C. Harvey, Director of Agriculture in Fiji.

Officer Mr. W. F. Hayward, Postmaster-General in Fiji.

Mr. J. D. A. Germond, Actmg Resident Commissioner, British Solomon Islands.

Member Mr. C. M. Dass, agriculture assistant, Lautoka, Fiji.

Jovesa Tana, paramount hereditary chief, Vitogo, Fiji.

Mr. H. T. Lawrence, representative in Fiji of The British Council.

Miss Michele Davies, 2i-years-old daughter of a wireless operator in Honiara, Solomon Islands, speaks Pidgin fluently but not so much straight English.

With her mother, Mrs. Pauline Patricia Davies, Michele arrived in Sydney on the December Morinda.

Mr. Charles Henderson, British Consul in Tahiti, has gone to Rotorua, New Zealand, to receive medical treatment for an injury sustained in a motor accident in Fiji last year. Mr. Asmus is acting as Consul during Mr, Henderson’s absence.