THE COLONIAL SERVICE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19983, 18 July 1930, Page 11

THE COLONIAL SERVICE.

ESTABLISHMENT OF TRADE COMMISSIONER. LBEITISU OjrrjClAL WIBELKSS i (Received July 17th, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, July 16. Questioned as to what progress has been made with the proposal for the establishment of a Trade Commissioner in London for the British colonies in the Carribean Bea, Dr. Sljiels, UnderSecretary for the Colonies, said that Lord Passfield (Secretary for the Colonies) had received favourable replies from the Governors of the Bahama?, Leeward Islands, Bermuda, Trinidad, and the Windward Islands, and he was still }n correspondence with the Governments of Jamaica, Barbadoos, a-.id British Guiana, as their attitude was not yet finally decided. NEW APPOINTMENTS MADE, iBRIYISB OFFICIAL WIBBLESS.) (Received July 17th, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, July 16. The Colonial Secretary at Sierra Leone (Mr M, A. Young) has been appointed to be Chief Secretary to the Government of Palestine. The King has approved of the appointment of Sir Philip Macdonoll, Chief Justice of Trinidad, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon, Jn succession to Sir Stanley Fisher, on tho latter's retirement. Sir Stanley Fisher, who has been Chief Justice of Ceylon since 1926, was born in 1867. Ho was educated at Westminster and at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated M.A. He was called to the Bar in 1800. Ho has held judicial positions in Cyprus, Egypt, and Trinidad, and from 1984-2<j was President of the West Indian Court of AppeaJ. Sir Philip James Macdonell, 8.C.L., M.A., Oxqr„ has been Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago and President of the Wept Indian Court of Appeal since 1927. He was born in 1873. He was war correspondent of "The Times" in the South African War, From 1907-8 he was Assistant Crown rosecutor in the Transvaal. After holding other legal positions In South Africa he was appointed Judge of the High Court of Northern Rhodesia, which he held from 1918 to 1927.