Mr. C. B. Higginson

Death In Papua

His Good Service As Magistrate

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Port Moresby, October 10.

WORD was received in Port Moresby last Saturday, of the death of Mr. C. B. Higginson. who died at Kopipi on September 29th, while on his

way to Popo, where he was employed by the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. He was another of the fast lessening number of old timers in Papua, and had been in the Territory for about 25 years, twenty of which had been spent in the service of the Government.

Mr. Higginson was almost the last of the older Magistrates—those fine men who, in the old days, did such magnificent work in subduing and training, with wisdom and justice, the fierce and savage Papuans.

Mr. Higginson leaves a widow and three children, who had only just left the territory by the last Morinda.

The news of his death cast a gloom over Port Moresby. One of his friends writes: “Good sport, firm friend, fearless officer and able administrator of justice, he will be long missed and remembered in Papua.” ———

Mr. C. B. Higginson.