G & E Officcials Visit BSI
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From Our Own correspondent HONIARA, April 30.
THE Resident Commissioner, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony.
Mr. M. L. Bernacchi, with Mrs.
Bernacchi, Mr. W. H. Brabant (Accountant-General, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony), Mr. I. G.
Turbott (Secretary to Government), and Mr. K. Nicholson (Co-operative Societies Officer) arrived in Honiara in the RCS Nareau on April 19 to confer with the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Mr. R. C. S.
Stanley, regarding Colony matters.
This is the first time that a Resident Commissioner of the Gil bert and Ellice Islands has visited the British Solomon Islands Pro tectorate.
f Dr. Ted Kn owles and his wife are i eav i ng Fiji j n June or July.
Dr. Knowles is CMO. Western, and he will probably attend a two years radiographer’s course in United Kingdom before rejoining.
II Mr. and Mrs. MacDufT (he has been Chief Magistrate, Western Fiji, for the last four years), have gone to UK on leave. Mr. Mac Duff ser ved with the NZ Forces in the Western Desert, Greece and Italy, with the rank of Lt/Col. (and with an MC) in W War 11. _, w . * t Mr. and Mrs. M. Ballande of Noumea, New Caledonia, were m the Tavua-Vatukoula area of Fiji recently where they were visiting their daughter who is the wife of Mr. Bruce Roach of Voco, Lautoka.