'Ti m'Carver Retires from CSR Co.

rSTHE face pictured below—which 1. has seen more than 60 summers, but does not look like it —has been well known in Fiji for 37 years. However, its familiar place in the Colony now will be empty —for Mr. A. G. T. Carver, Fiji Inspector for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, and one of the Co.’s Senior General Executive Officers, retired on September 30, after 40 years’ service.

Practically everyone in Fiji knows and likes “Tim” Carver—a grim and tough executive, but a staunch friend and a charming host. He was sent from Sydney to Rarawai in 1920; was a field staff man at

Rarawai and Lautoka until 1 when he became Field Superintl dent at Lautoka; then he went the Rarawai Mill (Ba) as F r Superintendent; and two ye later he become Manager of Penang Mill.

In 1944, after 24 full years; Fiji, Mr. Carver returned to Sydi as Assistant Field Inspector; a three years later, he followed E. R. Day as Chief Fiji Inspec Although now nominally a resid of Sydney, he was for anothen years a very frequent andJ welcome visitor in Fiji.

“Tim” was only a youth when joined the CSR Co. service in Jt 1915; and he had been there o three months when he heard call to World War I. He bee;; an artilleryman, and took part some of the major engagement:: Egypt and in France; he had H promoted to commissioned n when the war ended.

He was as popular at No O’Connell Street as he was ini and Lautoka and Suva; and retirement did not pass unnoti; There was a formal presentation September 27, made by Dr. R.

Harman (General Manager); then “Tim” was led off to a so; of staff functions from which pi reporters were sternly excluded:

Succeeded By Mr. H. G

Nicholls

Mr. Carver has been in the Chief Fiji Inspectorate Mr. H. G. Nicholls, who has T in CSR Co. service since 1923.

Nicholls left Sydney for Fiji!

October 10.