Mr. J. S. Thomson
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for Virgin Isles
Mr. J. S. Thomson, Fiji’s Acting Chief secretary, has been appointed Administrator of the British Virgin Islands and will take up his post in April. He will leave Fiji toward the end of January.
The British Virgin Islands comprise about 40 islands, 12 of them inhabited. Population is about 7,500. They have been a British Colony since about 1672.
Announcement that Mr. Thom son would not be appointed Fiji Chief Secretary in succession to Mr. P. D. Macdonald caused public expressions of dismay in Fiji in November ( PIM, Dec.
II). Many wanted him to remain in the colony.