Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1950Vol. XX, No. 9

BSI Resident Commissioner

p. 72 · Read in the full issue

Page 7272

on Tour

Prom Our Own Correspondent HONIARA, March 20.

FIRST visit in BSIP of new Resident Commissioner (Mr. H. G. Gregory- Smith) was to the Gela group of islands towards the end of February, His patrol ship was met by decorated canoes and he was given a traditional

welcome with gifts, including red and white shell-money and much food includ ing a pig. Rarely seen native dances were performed for him, Mr. Gregory-Smith toured Malaita in March with the District Commissioner, Malaita (Mr. S. G. Masterman).

Mr. William Effey, governing director of Hiro Plantations, Ltd., and Fulakora Plantations, Ltd. (BSD, died in Brisbane recently. He was 79.

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