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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1963Vol. XXXIII, No. 12

Fiji Named

p. 10 · Read in the full issue

New Governor Of

Fiji’s new Governor will be Mr Francis Derick Jakeway, 48, Chief Secretary of Sarawak since 1959.

M R JAKEWAY, whose appoint ment was announced on July 2 succeeds Sir Kenneth Maddocks, who was appointed in 1958 and retires in September.

Mr. Jakeway, CMG, QBE, is married, with three sons. He was edu cated at Hele’s School, Exeter and at Oxford and was first appointed to the Colonial Service in Nigeria in 1937 He has also served in Seychelles, with the CoJomal Office (1949-51), and in British Guiana, where he was Chief Secretary from 1954 to 1958.

Mr. Jakeway will be Fiji’s 20th Governor.