New Job For Sir Ronald

Sir Ronald

Sir Ronald Garvey, KCMG, Governor of Fiji until 1958, when he retired from the British Colonial Service, has been appointed Governor of the Isle of Man—a post which carries a salary of £ 5,000 per annum.

The Isle of Mans popula tion is 55,000, and it has an independent government—it is not necessarily bound by the laws of the British Parlia ment.

It has an area of 227 square miles and is in the Irish Sea. north of Liverpool.

Manxmen now speak.

English—in 1951 only 355 persons spoke the Manx dia lect of Celtic, and they were all biligual.

Sir Ronald was only 55 when he retired. Normally, he would have moved to a higher Governorship—but the British Empire has shrunk consider ably since World War 11. He jokingly told his South Pacific friends when he left Fiji that, in view of the modesty of his pension, he might take up professional lawn-mowing. It seems he’s done better than that.