[?]Sr General-Post Follows

[?]R. Elliot’S Retirement

VE ELLIOT, chief manager in Fiji t Colonial Sugar Refining Company, etire in January, 1957. His retire be followed by a reshuffle in CSR positions in Fiji.

R. (Barney) Rourke, at present Lautoka, will succeed Mr. Elliot.

Potts will go to Lautoka from id will be succeeded at Rarawai by Rowley, who has been manager at . J. M. Aitken, acting manager at le Mr. Rowley has been on leave, ■firmed in his present appointment. retires, Mr. Elliot will have been pany's service for 43 years, 39 of i. He was appointed chief manager the retirement of Mr. E. H. Griffiths, t has been actively interested in rs in the Colony. In 1950 he be minated member of the Legislative

i three years mber of the louncil. his year he inted chair e Committee tural Educa- Committee's ere released une. He is mber of the 'isory Board, Conservation the Fijian t Fund Board. awarded the this year, lot is im> ist - president luva Rotary always took interest in is the re dent of the

Fiji Lawn Tennis Association.

Mr. and Mrs. Elliot plan to settle in Aus tralia after a brief holiday in New Zealand.

MR. ROURKE joined the CSR in 1918, and went first to Fiji in 1923 as mill chemist at Labasa mill. In 1933 he became mill manager at Penang, and several years later, manager of the company there. He has been manager at Lautoka since 1947.

In his 33 years' service in Fiji he has had appointments at most of the company's mills.

Mr. Rourke has been a member of various boards in the Lautoka district, and is chair man of the board of visitors to the Lautoka Hospital. He is also a member of the Advisory Council on Agriculture.

Like Mr. Elliot, Mr. Rourke is interested in sport and, as president, has worked hard for the Lautoka Golf Club.

Mr. Elliot.

Mr. Rourke.