Fiji Birthday Honours
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QUEEN’S Birthday Honours in Fiji were as follows: OBE.—Mr. A. B. Ackland and Captain J. P. Mullins. (Mr. Ackland, since his retirement from the Government service in 1949, has taken a prominent part in the development of the Fijian banana-growing industry. Captain Mullins, who has had long service with the Fiji Government and the Western Pacific High Commission, is president of the Fiji Seamen’s Union and commodore of the Royal Suva Yacht Club. After the war he established an extremely suc cessful navigation class for Fijian and other ex-servicemen.
MBE (Military Division). —Captain W. F. Cox, Staff Officer, Fiji Artillery.
MBE—Mr. W. J. Gatward, a Tailevu dairy-farmer who has been a member of the Advisory Council on Agriculture since 1948. Until re cently he was also president of the Rewa Co-operative Butter Factory.
ISO. —Mr. W. E. J. Donovan, who recently retired from the post of Accountant-General.
BEM. —Mr. H. J. Willougby, Work* Superintendent (Roads).