New Year
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Honours
mHE following were New Year X Honours awarded to residents of Fiji and Tonga: CBE (Military Division): Colonel T. C. Campbell, DSO. MC, who recently returned to New Zealand after three years in Fiji as Commander of the Fiji Military Forces.
OBE (Civil Division): Dr. R. W.
D. Maxwell, Deputy Director of Health in Western Samoa and until recently Deputy Director of Medical Services in Fiji.
OBE (Honorary) : Havea Tui’iha’ateiho, Deputy-Premier of Tonga.
MBE (Civil Division): Mr. A. L.
Baker, Establishment Officer, Fiji Government; Miss I. E. Foulcher, Principal of Annesley Girls’ School, Suva.
BEM: Ramnath Badlu, Field Officer, Department of Agriculture.
Certificates Op Honour:
Leone Batigai; Mr. Jagessar Chaudhary; and Ratu Isimeli Mocevakaca.
Honours in W. Samoa CBE: High Chief Tupua Tamasese; High Chief Malietoa Tanumafili 11.
These two paramount chiefs of Western Samoa, referred to as the Fautua, will in time assume the office of joint Heads of State when Western Samoa gains complete self-government. t The Association of the French in North Africa has written to New Caledonian authorities about the possibility of settling. Most of the people are from French families who now have no future in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. A list of the settlers has been supplied and every effort is to be made to find a place for them in New Caledonia.