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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1951Vol. XXII, No. 5

R. Macmillan Leaves

p. 17 · Read in the full issue

S. Pacific Commission

IOR reasons which have not been disclosed, the South Pacific Commission demanded and re ived the resignation of Dr. H. G. acMillan, head of the Economic evelopment section of the Re arch Council; and Dr. MacMillan Ivises that he will be leaving the rvice of the Commission, and oumea, early in the New Year.

Dr. MacMillan was appointed in 48. He spent some 20 years as a ithologist in the US Department Agriculture, and he then was in le service of other official bodies the Pacific Islands as an agri- Qtural economist. He speaks :ench, German and Spanish.

New Secretary-General

After the meeting of the Com ission in October, Sir Brian Free on, late Governor of Fiji, pro dded to Noumea and settled in to s new position as Secretary eneral of the Commission.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Trotter and their lighter returned to Suva in Nov nber after visiting the USA and K.