Queen's Birthday
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One Knighthood In
Honours List
A knighthood (KB) was the highest honour bestowed on people of the Pacific Islands in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List this year. The main awards were:—
British Solomon Islands
OBE—Peter Marriott Smith, Ac countant-General, BSIP.
Fiji
Knight Bachelor Henry
Maurice Scott, CBE, DEC, Speaker of the Legislative Council.
CBE Ratu Edward Cakobau,
Mc, Ed.
OBE William George Johnston Cruickshank, Postmaster-General; Kenneth Arnold William Johnson, Director of Audit.
MBE—Sister Betty Slader, nursing sister and lay evangelist, Diocese of Polynesia; John Daniels, chief cane agronomist, SPSM Ltd.
Colonial Police Medal Super intendent William Wallace Thomas Caldwell.
Gilbert And Ellice Islands
MBE—Michael William Adams, senior auditor, GEIC Administration.
BEM—Te Toaiauea Eti, magistrate, Onotoa Island.
New Hebrides
MBE Darvell Kappel Wilkins, British District Agent, Central District No. 2.
Papua-New Guinea
CBE—Lady Rachel Cleland, presi dent of the Red Cross Society and Girl Guides Association.
OBE—Mr. B. C, Goodsell, manager of Burns Philp (NG) Ltd., for public service.
MBE—Mr. H. L. Thompson, MC, for services to the welfare of ex servicemen; Mr. Edward Boyd S'cobie, former Assistant Director of Works in Northern Territory, for public services in that territory and in P-NG.
BEM—Sergeant First Class Bagita, Papua-New Guinea Constabulary.
Pitcairn Island
MBE—John Lorenzo Christian, Island Magistrate.
Tonga
CBE—Prince Fatafehi Tuipelehake, Prime Minister.