George Hill Retires

George Sidney Hill, The

■Rritich Treasurer of the L/on dominium of the ■ N f "oowters of cne of the steadiest supporters oi that much-maligned edifice of ex nprimental government. His jou Mils for impartiality as between the French and British viewpoints which George adds a good deal of q ukeTany n of e "he permanent re sidents, and unlike many the

have been born happily under the two flags of the Condominium.

George Hill first saw Islands ser vice at Nauru in 1920. Five years later he joined Burns, Phfip and went to the New Hebrides. In 1926 he was married in Sydney to Miss Mildred McCoy, of Vila, and went to Salamaua to open a store there for Burns Philp. From there, he ioined the Edie Creek gold-rush, with Jack Edwards, and then staked the first mining leases for the Kaindi Syndicate. By 19 28 he had given up goldmining, and went to Kavieng to work for Ted Bishton, on Ulul None plantation The following year. Mr Hill uas back in the New Hebrides as a trader: but the price of copra was falling fast, and h e. joined the Con dominium service in 1931. He b came Treasurer in 1935, and is aue toTetire this July. He is remaining in the Hebrides, and will live at his home at Black Sand four trJtes along the coast from ViIa— BRETT.

Hilder.