Sir Ronald Garvey
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Well Known Administrator In Birthday Honours
THE King’s Birthday Honour list, in June, included the name of Ronald Garvey, Governor of British Hon duras. He receives a Knighthood.
Sir Ronald Garvey is well-known all over the South Pacific—-he served in Fiji, the New Hebrides, and the Solomons, and he was acting as Resident Commissioner in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony when the Japanese invaded in 1942. He and his staff were taken off Ocean Island, at dead of night, by the Free French destroyer Triomphant. Sir Ronald afterwards served in Africa, and was sent to the Caribbean area two or three years ago. The Governorship of British Hon duras is no bed of roses. The Territory has one or two unpleasant neighbours, who either want to start a war with British Honduras concerning disputed territories or are hotbeds of Communism.
Lady Garvey—who shared much per sonal popularity with her distinguished husband in the South Pacific—is a daughter of Dr. V. W. T. McGusty, who was Director of Medical Services in Fiji, Dr. and Mrs. McGusty now live in retirement in New Zealand.