Fiji Governor
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To Retire
The Governor of Fiji, Sir Ronald Garvey, KCMG, has announced that he will leave Fiji for England, at the end of August, on retire ment.
It was expected, when Sir Ronald accepted the Fiji Governorship in 1952 that he would move on from Fiji in 1957 or 1958 to a higher grade Governorship, and retire from that post, thus ensuring him a higher retirement pension. But, since World War 11, the British Empire has shrunk considerably, and there simply are not enough Colonial Governorships to provide posts for the oncoming men who have earned them. Sir Ronald Garvey is one of many.
Sir Ronald Garvey was the only Governor, in 40 years, who went to the top job in Fiji with a prior knowledge of Fiji and the Pacific Islands —he spent the early part of his life in the Colonial Service in Western Pacific High Commission and Fiji. In Fiji, he married a daughter of Dr. McGusty, the Chief Medical Officer, and she accom panied him to positions in Central Africa and the West Indies, and on to British Honduras, where he be came Governor and received a knighthood.
The Fiji appointment was heartily approved in Fiji, and Sir Ronald and Lady Garvey have been very popular there. At the request cf the principal residents, Sir Ron ald’s term of office was, in 1956, extended for two years.