Mr, Stoddart Leaves

Fiji’S No. 2

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Mr, Stoddart Leaves Next March

MR. A. F. R. STODDART’S term of office as Colonial Secretary of Fiji will end in March next year when he goes on leave. He will be succeeded by Mr. P. D. Macdonald, who had previously served for three years in Fiji as Assistant Colonial Secretary (Development).

Mr. Stoddart has been Colonial Secretary since 1949, and has twice acted as Governor of the Colony.

Previously he had served in Nigeria and Sierra Leone.

Mr. Macdonald left his previous Fiji appointment in 1949 to go to the Leeward Islands in the West Indies as Assistant Colonial Secre tary (Administration). He has had other Colonial Service experience in the Pacific, in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. From 1942 to 1946 he was Assistant Colonial Secretary in Trinidad.

Mr. J. W. Sykes, formerly an administrative officer in Fiji, has been appointed Colonial Secretary, Bermuda. He \|as transferred from

Fiji in 1954 to the trouble spot of Cyprus as Deputy Colonial Secretary and last year was pro moted to the post of Administrative Secretary.

His wife is a daughter of Sir Hugh Ragg.

H Mr. John Ryan, who retired j months ago from the positio: Deputy Secretary-General of) South Pacific Commission, wai ported in October to be serious in Sydney. Mr. Ryan, during occupancy of a difficult joy Noumea, won many friends.