New Governor
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Of Fiji
THE British Colonial Office an nounced on May 20 that it had selected Mr. Kenneth Phipson Maddocks, at present Deputy Gov ernor of Northern Nigeria, for the post of Governor of Fiji. In the Birthday Honours in June he re ceived the KCMG.
Sir Ronald Garvey, KCMG, re tires from the Fiji Governorship and from the Colonial Service in October next. He has been Gover nor since 1952. Sir Kenneth Mad docks will assume office in October.
He is 51 years old, and has served all his official life in West Africa. He went to Nigeria as a cadet in 1929; and there he has been promoted step by step, over the last 29 years, to his present po sition. He was Acting Governor of Nigeria in 1956.
Sir Kenneth was educated at Oxford. In 1951 he married Miss Elinor Radcliffe Russell, daughter of Sir E. John Russell. (See also Editorial Commentary, and article on Fiji’s Constitution on page 49).