Pacific Recipients Of

Birthday Honours

IN addition to Sir Alport Barker (re ferred to elsewhere) the following residents of Fiji participated in the Birthday Honours awarded by the King: Ratu George Tuisawau, 0.8. E. He is a High Chief of Rewa and is Roko Tui Nadroga and Navosa and senior Fijian Member of Legislative Council. During the war he commanded the First Docks Company of the Fiji Labour Corps which served wih distinction in the Solomons, Mr. S. A. Lee, M.B.E. He is Telephone Inspector in the Post and Telegraph De partment, and has been attached to the telephone branch of the department for nearly 30 years.

Miss G. E. Atherton, M.B.E. She recently retired from the post of Head mistress of Vatuwaqa Indian Girls’ School after 26 years service as a teacher in schools in Fiji.

Mr. R. D. Blandy, C.M.G. He retired last November from the post of British Resident Commissioner, New Hebrides.

Major S. G. Masterman, 0.8. E. He recently retired after 28 years’ service in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate.

For much of this period he was Labour Inspector. For two of the difficult post war years he was Secretary to the Gov ernment of the Protectorate and for 15 months before his Retirement he was acting District Commissioner. Malaita.

Rev. A. T. Hill, M.B.E. He is Head master of the Church of England Me lanesian Mission Senior Boys’ School at Pawa, in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. He was formerly an extra- Master Mariner. When he went to the Solomon Islands in 1939 he was placed in charge of the Pawa School, and he has since built it into an institution of ex ceptionally high standing and efficiency.

The 34,180-ton luxury ship Caronia with her cargo of Texan oil millionaires and retired Yankee bankers will reach Sydney on February 13. On February 16 she will leave for the S-W Pacific —New Guinea ports and Guadalcanal.

A proposal for a new issue of BSIP stamps has been approved by the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific.

It is understood that members of the public are to be asked to submit designs for new Solomon Islands stamps, and that a prize is likely to be offered for each design accepted.

Suva Landmark Is

Demolished

This photo shows one of Suva’s well-known [?]ndmarks disappearing. This was the 150-ft. [?]idio mast at Suva Point. It was erected in [?]11, weighed 160 tons and was made of steel, except the wooden top portion. Cost of up [?]ep was high, and the top portion dangerous [?] the new owners (Cable & Wireless Ltd.) [?]ave decided to erect a latticed mast. The [?]ork of demolition was carried out by the Fiji Public Works Department. —Photo by Stinson’s Studio.