WPHC Chronology
1941-42 |
Resident Commissioners' correspondence lost for GEIC & BSIP because of Japanese capture of Tarawa. |
1942 |
Sir Harry Luke leaves Fiji |
1944 |
The British Return to Tarawa |
1945 |
Peace in the Pacific (GBG’s trunk) |
1952 |
WPHC Moved to Honiara (an "outpost of nothing"--Gatty). |
1954 |
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1970 |
Fiji gains independence |
1972 |
GEIC removed from WPHC |
1973 |
New Hebrides removed from WPHC |
1976 |
Archival Process begins (Paddy Mac!) |
1978 |
Archives separated: GB, Tarawa, Funafuti. WPHC defunct. |
High Commissioner / Governor General of Fiji
- Sir Harry Luke left Suva on July 20, 1942.
- Major-General Sir Philip Even Mitchell, KCMG, MC, appointed Governor of Fiji July 22, 1942. "I came out here not to govern but to wage war." That's all he did. He didn't last long. They appointed another High Commissioner when the war moved away from Fiji.
- Sir Alexander William George Herder Grantham appointed Jan 1, 1945.
- Sir Leslie Brian Freeston, KCMG, OBE November 22, 1947 until Jan 29, 1952.
- Sir Ronald Herbert Garvey, KCMG, MBE. Governor-designate. Took office on February 5, 1952.