Fiji loses Two
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Another To
Samoa
Fiji loses Two Valuable Officials
Recently when Mr. b. v.
Parham, Deputy Director of Agriculture, accepted the post of Director of Agriculture in W. Samoa, Fiji lost a valuable oflicer.
It is now to lose another to the same quarter with the pending retirement of Dr. R. w. D Maxwell, Deputy Director of Medical Services, who has accepted the post of Deputy Director of Health and Superintendent of Apia Hospital in Western Samoa.
Dr. Maxwell was born in Fiji and has served in many districts and at all the main hospitals in the Colony, and has been Deputy Director of Medical Services since 1952.
He is at present acting as Director of Medical Services and Inspector-General of the South Pacific Health Service.
As a practitioner he specialised in nose and throat ailments and in this work built up a considerable reputation.
While the Unified Colonial Service may have its good points as far as the Civil Service is concerned it has not always worked favourably for Fiji; many of its best men, finding that promotion was dependent upon accepting transfers to other and more distant Colonies, have preferred to resign and seek
ns in New Zealand or ,11a. This applies particularly Ecers who have been ed from either of those ies, and who do not wish to ; themselves too far from home-land, or from sources gher education for their n. they resent having Tally to carry new superiors ihey find their feet in Fiji. continual arrival of new inds them either relying for e on subordinates, or making es through ignorance of local ons, or trying to force the es of other Colonies upon yeiry often the transfer of through the Unified Service means the loss of valuable nee so often gained at the e of the Colony.
Egbert Baron, a well-known of Tahiti, veteran of World I, and an engineer by ion, died at Papeete recently, 8 years. He is survived by hter.
Amelia Teore, of Arareaitu, i, was married to Mr. Baldwin , of Moorea, on September iy will settle at Pirae, Tahiti, Mr, Tauraa is attached to spartment of Agriculture.