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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1955Vol. XXV, No. 6

India’s New High

p. 18 · Read in the full issue

Commissioner in French

Mr. Devi Dayal Bhatia ]

been appointed Commissio: for the Government of In in Fiji in succession to Dr. N.

Raj Kumar, who has gone to In< China as Deputy Secretary Gene of the International Truce Sup< visory Council.

Mr. Bhatia was born in 1907, a educated at the Edwards Miss: College in Peshawar, later gradui ing from the University of Punj He entered the Indian Govei ment Service in the Northw Frontier Province.

In 1947, after the partition India, he was appointed Unc Secretary in the Ministry of I ternal Affairs. He was promoted Deputy Secretary in 1949.

Mr. Bhatia is expected to lea for Fiji in mid-January.