Another "Kiwi"
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In Top U.K.
Islands Post
A New Zealander, Mr. Colin Hamilton Allan, has been ap pointed British Resident Com missioner in the New Hebrides.
MR. ALLAN, who became Assis tant Resident Commissioner in 1962, succeeded the late Mr. A. M.
Wilkie, who died in August while travelling to England on leave ( PIM, Sept., p. 20).
Mr. Allan’s new appointment means that there are now two New Zealanders at the head of Britain’s four remaining colonial territories in the South Pacific. The other is Mr.
V. J. Andersen, Resident Commis sioner in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony.
Mr. Allan, who is 45, was born in Wellington, New Zealand. He studied at Canterbury University and at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and holds a Master of Arts degree and a diploma of anthropology from Cam bridge.
After serving with the New Zealand Army during the war, Mr. Allan went to the BSIP as an administrative cadet in 1945. He remained there until 1958, serving at various times as a District Commissioner, Special
Lands Commissioner (he wrote a study of BSIP land tenure), and Senior Assistant Secretary of the Western Pacific High Commission.
Mr. Allan was seconded to the New Hebrides in 1959 and has re mained there ever since. He is mar ried with two children.
In the 1955 New Year Honours List, Mr. Allan was awarded the OBE. He was made a Commander of the French Order of Merit during the visit to the New Hebrides in September of General de Gaulle.
Mr. Allan