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New Resident Commissioners were appointed to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony and the New Hebrides Condominium in Nov ember. Sir John Field, will take up his position as Resident Commis sioner of the GEIC early in the New Year, and Mr. Robert Langlois, becomes French Resident Commis sioner for the Hebrides.
Sir John, currently acting Admin istrator of Britain’s West Indies island of Montserrat, was Governor of St. Helena from 1962-68, and before that he had spent 26 years with the British Colonial Service in West Africa.
He was appointed a staff liaison officer to the British Overseas Civil Service in July, 1968, and in the GEIC he will succeed Mr. Val Andersen, who left the GEIC earlier this year.
Mr. Langlois, 47, a Civil Admin istrator First Class, is a previous Secretary-General for French Poly nesia and he was Chancelier at the New Hebrides French Residency from 1961 to 1965. Like Sir John, he has had previous experience in Africa.
Mr. Langlois will replace Mr. J, Mouradian, Resident Commissioner since 1965, who left Vila in early November to take up a new post as High Commissioner for the Comoro Islands, Indian Ocean.
Before he left Vila, Mr. Mouradian made a farewell speech in which he discussed changes during his term of office.
The economv had steadily devel oped, he said. The local position was sound and major construction work was underway, including the Vila Wharf, airfields, roads and tourist facilities.
“I would like to emphasise the promising trends which are beginning to make themselves felt today, and which tomorrow, T hone, will result in complete honest and fruitful co operation in the snhere of land development,” he added. • Part of Australia’s Captain Cook Bi-Centenary Celebrations and also Sydney’s first maritime exhi bition of its kind. Maritime FXpo sition 1970, wifi be staged in Svdney from January 23 to February 3 next year. Included will be disnlays from shinning companies, history exhibits, frogmen. firefighting and teleprinter demonstrations.