DIPLOMAT’S NEW POST
Deputy To U.K. Commissioner
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 4. Mr F. A. K. Harrison has been appointed deputy High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in New Zealand in succession to Mr C. S Pickard. He will arrive in Wellington in August to take up his new appointment Mr Harrison, who is 46, was educated at Winchester and Oxford. He joined the India Office in 1937 and was assistant private secretary to the Secretary of State from 1941 to 1943. He became a member of the Commonwealth Relations Office when it was established in 1947. From 1949 to 1951 he was first secretary in the office of the United Kingdom High Commissioner in New Delhi and he was deputy High Commissioner in Peshawar from 1956 to 1959. He is at present head of the Central Africa department in the Commonwealth Relations Office. Mr Harrison married in 1955 the stepdaughter of Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Nye. They have two sons and one daughter.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29505, 5 May 1961, Page 14
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164DIPLOMAT’S NEW POST Press, Volume C, Issue 29505, 5 May 1961, Page 14
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