From Office
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Mr. J. R. Halligan Retires From Office
Senior Commissioner for Australia on the South Pacific Commission since 1948, Mr. J. R. Halligan, retired in November from that post and most of his others. Mr. Halligan has been ill for some months, but his retirement was due to the fact that on November 8 he reached the retiring age of 65.
Mr. Halligan began his career in 1911 with the Commonwealth Depart ment of External Affairs, which then administered territories, and later was the Administration Accountant in the old Mandated Territory of New Guinea; Deputy Administrator and Chief Magis trate on Norfolk Island, and then Secretary of the External Territories Department. Since 1951 he has been Special Adviser to the Australian Minister for Territories; and Australian member of the British Phosphate and the Christmas Island Phosphate Com mission since 1952.
In his retirement, Mr. Halligan will live in Canberra. Mr. Dudley Mc- Carthy is now Acting Senior Australian Commissioner for the SPC. (See “Commentary”, page 25)