Death of Samoan Pioneer
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From Our Own Correspondent.
APIA, June 27.
AN old and respected resident of Samoa, Mr. Frederick Ernest Syddall, died suddenly of heart failure at Tuvao Plantation on May 5. Mr. Syddall, who was 72 was a native of Manchester, England, and arrived in Samoa from South America in 1894. He took up land in the Falefa dis trict and for some time was trading for the well-known firm of H. J. Moors.
He owned for many years a store in Apia on the site of the present new Burns, Philp building. A second building and store, which he had erected, he sold out a few years ago to Messrs. C. Bartley and Son, and then took up the lease of Tuvao Plantation from the N.Z.R.E., where he planted cocoa and bananas.
He had been a member of the Land and Titles Commission for ten years, and a member of the Legislative Council for three years. He was a Freemason of 42 years’ standing. The funeral was largely attended by the European residents. He left a widow and six children, of whom the eldest daughter is married to the In spector of Produce, Mr. Newton.