Hongkong's loss will be Ceylon's gain when Sir Andrew Caldecott Teaves 10 take up his new post, Sir Andrew will receive general congratulations on his promotion. Dur-Ing his tine in the Colony he has done mitch.to Improve relations between the Colony and Canton. No better appreciation of his good work could have been given than the enthusiastic reception he received during his re-148] cent visit to that city.
In Sir Geot-48 troy Alexander Stafford Northcote Hongkong will be having another distinguished colonial servant as gov-58 exnor.
Sir Geoffrey has been. in British Gulana.for the last two years. He is the grandson of the. first Earl "of Tddesleigh, and is. therefore cousin to "Lady Rosalind Northcote, who has just passed through Shanghai on a world tour in the interests of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Sir Geoffrey entered the Colonial Service in 1904, and has spent the major part of his time serving in Kenya. From that colony he. was transferred to Northern Rhodesia 1928 as Chief Secretary, thence to the Gold Const as Colonial Secretary, fand thence to the post he Is now vacating as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of British Guiana. Unlike Sir Andrew Caldecott," who spent most of his service before coming to Hongkong in Malaya and the Straits Settlements, Sir Geoffrey has had no previous experience of the Far East. His record as an adminletrator in the positions he hag held on the African continent makes that, serious disability, and he will fake up his responsible past in Hongkong with the cordial. good wishes not only of Britons in the Colony but of all Britons in China itself,
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