Visit of G&E Officials
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Honiara, May 16.
F[E Resident Commissioner, Gilbert & Ellice Islands Colony, Mr. M. L. Bernacchi and Mrs.
Bernacchi, with the Accountant- General, Gilbert & Ellice Islands, Mr. W. H. Brabant, the Secretary so Government, Mr. I. G. Turbott and the Co-operatives Officer, Mr.
K. Nicholson, left Honiara, BSIP in :he Colony vessel M. V. Nareau for Tarawa on April 20, after a fort night’s stay in the Protectorate.
Mr. A. J. Carstairs, Assistant Superintendent of Police, British Solomon Islands Protectorate, also ravelled in the Nareau to Tarawa. 3e will act as Superintendent of Police in the G & EIC during the ibsence on leave in England of Mr. 7 . C. Moore.
Mr. Bernacchi and his staff dis missed Colony problems with the iigh Commissioner, Western Pacific High Commission (Mr. R.
Z. S. Stanley, CMG, OBE) at loniara.
This is the first visit ever made o the Solomons by a Resident Commissioner of the G & EIC.
A new boat (“Simbung”) for the lUtheran Mission, New Guinea, was edicated and launched at Brisbane i March and expected to sail for Few Guinea in May.