Announced

New Wphc

The new High Commissioner for the Western Pacific is Mr.

Robert Sidney Foster, CMC, at present Deputy Governor of Nyasaland.

Mr. Foster, whose appoint ment was announced on Novem ber 1, succeeds Sir David Trench, KCMG, who is to be Governor of Hong Kong.

No date has yet been an nounced for Mr. Foster’s arrival in Honiara, headquarters of the Western Pacific High Com mission. The WPHC is respon sible for British interests in the New Hebrides, the BSIP and the

Geic.

The new High Commissioner is 50, married with no children.

He joined the Colonial Service in 1956 as a cadet in Northern Rhodesia and became a District Officer there in 1958. He was appointed secretary of the Ministry of Native Affairs in Northern Rhodesia in 1960 before been appointed Chief Secretary of Nyasaland in 1961 During the war he was an officer with the Northern Rhodesia Regiment.

Mr. Foster’s recreations in clude tennis and fishing.