GOVERNOR OF BARBADOS
TERM OF OFFICE EXTENDED. t Biitish Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 21. The King has been pleased to approve of trie extension of the terpi of office of Sir William Charles Fleming Robertson K.0.M.G., as Governor, arid Coriima-rider-iri-Ciiief of Barbados for one veai; from December 30, next. ; ■ • ■ .7/0!
Sir William RohertVb'o, an Irishman,' joined the Colonial Service after his ediication the Colonial Service after his gdu'chtibri- ! ‘rit Trinity College, Dublin, and rivals' appointed to 'Director of Edit-' cation on the Cold Corst; hr 1899. He, rem'a-inod on ''the ; Gold' Coast for sixteen; years,: eventually Becoming Assis-tant'-Colcnial Secretary. Tile year 1915 saw him transferred to Gibraltar, as Colonial Secretary, and two years later he was moved to Malta, as chief secretary to the Governor, Lord Methuen. In 1925 he was appointed Governor of Barbados, being knighted in 1927.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1931, Page 3
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