[?]SW Honours BSIP Official

HANDSOME mahogany writing desk and silver inkwell have been presented to the High imissioner’s Court in Honiara by C. L. Devenish Meares, QC, Mr. !. Jacobs and Mr. P. F. Galvin tppreciation of the services to ce of a former BSIP Judicial missioner, Mr. W. T. Charles. ie desk and inkwell have been ;d on the Bench in the Central t House at Honiara.

Messrs. Meares, Jacobs and Galvin are all members of the Bar of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and are also members of the Bar of the High Commissioner’s Court for the Western Pacific. They appeared before the Judicial Com missioner on several occasions.

Mr. Charles, after eight years in the Protectorate as Judcial Com missioner, transferred to Hongkong in 1954, and is now a Judge in the Colony.

t Applications closed end of April for an appointment as Director of Works, Nauru. Salary was £1,628- 31,796 —tax-free, of course, in this Trust Territory administered by Australia for the other partners New Zealand and the UK. t The USS Co. motor-vessel Tofua lifted 15,000 cases of Western Samoan bananas for New Zealand in April.