Mr. Richards Hot Retiring
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IT was reported in Melbourne at the end of June that Mr. R. S. Richards, Administrator of Nauru, would soon be retiring because of ill health.
Mr. Richards later denied this. He said that he had not been well because of overstrain but was “much better.”
Mr. Richards, formerly Leader of the Labour Opposition in the South Aus tralian parliament, was appointed Ad ministrator of Nauru by the Chifley Labour Government just before it went out of office. He has been in Nauru about seven months.
Although Mr. Richards had had no experience of the tropics or Islands ad ministration, it is said that he has shown himself a “sound and wise administra tor.”