Many Changes In

Top Fiji Posts

T'UI’S triennial game of musical - chairs in the top Government osts will start again in May when le Colonial Secretary (Mr. P. D. facdonald) goes on leave. He will e succeeded by the 40-years-old Mr.

R. Bain for about two months.

Ir. Bain is about to move from the übstantive post of Controller of )rganisation and Establishment to iat of Assistant Colonial Secretary.

From mid-July the Acting Colonial Secretary will be Mr. H. P. Ritchie, he Financial Secretary, who is at iresent on leave. Mr. Ritchie will ict in the chief executive officer’s »ost for some time, at least till Mr.

Macdonald returns, and possibly for ome weeks after that. Presumably vhen the Governor (Sir Kenneth Maddocks) retires in September Mr.

Macdonald will act as Governor till he new Governor arrives.

Thus Mr. Ritchie, who went on leave in January, will have very little to do with the preparation of the

1964 Budget. This will necessarily be in the hands of Mr. R. M. Major, who is filling Mr. Ritchie’s substantive post. , , . .

Other .changes m the top posts m Ftji include the retirement of the Commissioner Western, Mr. J. A. C.

Hill, the posting to Labasa as Commissioner Northern of Mr C. A.

SeUer, and the appointment of Mr.

J B Claydon as Acting Controller of Organisation and Establishment.

Mr. Hill will be succeeded by Mr.

J. S. Thomson, an experienced officer, much of whose service has

been connected with the Fijian ad ministration. The previous Com missioners Northern, Mr, W. W. A.

Miller, will act as Assistant Colonial Secretary from the end of May till the middle of July and will then be seconded to the Land Development Authority.

Ratu Edward Cakobau, who is at present on leave, will take over from Ratu Penaia Ganilau at the end of May as Deputy Secretary for Fijian Affairs. Before he went on leave Ratu Penaia Ganilau at the end of Eastern, and he has previously been Deputy Secretary for Fijian Affairs.