by Sir Arthur Grimble including the early experiences of a District Officer in the Pacific Islands thirty-five years ago
1—' The Old Man of the Colonial Office'
When Sir Arthur Grimble joined the Colonial Administrative Service in 1914, he was the first of the species cadet to be appointed a District Officer in the Central Pacific. In this talk he describes his feeling when he attended a final interview at the Colonial Office, divided between a sense of his own inadequacy as a Kiph'ngesque leader of men and his romantic desire to explore the lagoon islands of the Pacific described by Robert Louis Stevenson.