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Pacific Islands Monthly, 19 December 1934Vol. V, No. 5

Eric Rondahl Dead

p. 12 · Read in the full issue

ACCORDING to an announcement in a Sydney newspaper, Mr. Eric Rondahl, a very well-known member of a prominent New Guinea family, died in Madang, N.G., on December 1, after a short illness. There are no details—but the death of this young man (he was only 35) was quite un expected. He had been away in the in terior, prospecting for gold, and it is prob able that there he picked up one of the bad attacks of fever for which that region is notorious.