Sykes

Promotion for Mr. J. W Sykes

MR. J. W. SYKES, who has been in the public service of Fiji 0 . . f or many years—latterly as As sistant Colonial Secretary—has been promoted to the post of Deputy Colonial Secretary in Cyprus. He “ f 4 P^ esent on teave in England and will go directly to Cyprus from there. Mr. and Mrs. Sykes (she S a daughter of Sir Hugh Ragg of well - know n mem oers of the Fiji community over a long period, and have many friends there. He joined the British Colonial Service in 1938, after graduating from Oxford. He will find Cyprus, in a political sense, much more lively than Fiji—there is a strong movement there for union with Greece.