Knighthood For
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J. F. Nicoll
HAVING recently received the appointment of Governor of Singapore, Mr. J. F. Nicoll, who spent some years in Fiji aS Government Secretary, and acted on several occasions as Governor, has been raised to knighthood. He receive his KCMG in. the
New Year Honours.
Sir John Nicoll always was regarded in Fiji as a man of marked ability, and certain to receive a Governorship.
It is interesting to note that two former outstand ing officials of Fiji, Sir Alexander Grantham and Sir John Nicoll, are to-day respectively Governor of Hongkong and Governor of Singapore. Those were the two first British terri tories to be over-run by the Japanese in 1941-2, and they now are regarded —in view of continuing developments in Asia —as being in the front of the Cold War.
Sir John Nicoll