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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1950Vol. XX, No. 6

Fiji

p. 26 · Read in the full issue

New Director of Public Works, Fiji

MR. J. P. Bruen, Deputy Director, Drainage and Irrigation Branch, Public Works Department, British Guiana, has been appointed Director of Public Works, Fiji, in succession to Mr.

J. L. Brown, who was recently transferred to Cyprus as Director of Public Works Mr. Bruen is now on leave in the United Kingdom. He will probably arrive in Fiji in April, 1950.

He graduated from the University of Ireland in 1924 as a Bachelor of Engineer ing. He was first appointed to the Colonial Service in British Guiana in January, 1930, and served in that Colony until his Fiji appointment.

Mr. J. Judd, CBE, has been appointed a member of the Suva Town Council in place of Dr. D. W. Hoodless who recently resigned in order to take up the post of temporary medical officer in the Gil bert and Ellice Islands Colony.