Chief Secretary
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Wphc To Lose
The Chief Secretary of the Western Pacific High Com mission, Mr. R. J. Minnitt, CMG, who has held the post since the WPHC was sep arated from Fiji in 1952, is shortly due to retire from the Colonial Service.
It is expected that he will leave Honiara, BSIP, in May for the United Kingdom.
Prior to 1952, the Governor of Fiji was also High Com missioner for the Western Pacific, an d WPHC head quarters were in Suva. Sir Robert Stanley was the first High Commissioner to be so in his own right. He was also the first to have his HQ in Honiara. Mr. Minnitt was appointed to the WPHC about the same time as Sir Robert — then Mr. R. C. S. Stanley.
Most Colonial Servants will probably agree that to get a WPHC appointment these days is to get farthest out on the Colonial Service limb — but with the Empire shrink ing so fast it seems that it will be only a matter of time before only the limbs are left.