After Cambridge, in 1938, Philip Snow left the first-class cricket
field and sailed halfway around the world to pursue a Colonial
Service career. His work in Fiji could hardly have been more
varied: Commissioner, Magistrate, Officer-in-Charge-of-Police,
Superintendent of Gaols, Reciever of Wrecks and Colonial Secretary.
He was joined by his fiancee, just before the exotic setting was
shattered by the Pacific War. After Pearl Harbor and the fall of
Singapore, Fiji was virtually surrounded by the Japanese. Philip
Snow was Government Liaison Officer during this critical period.
The presence of C.P. Snow, his elder brother, exerted a powerful
influence on Philip's life during this time.
This is a record of the flavour of British experience in the
colonies. Overshadowing all is the theme of racial harmony, mutual
tolerance and distant respect which informed Snow's life.
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