Sudden Death in Sydney
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"Charlie" Petterson
'“pHE death occurred, unexpectedly, in * a private hospital in Parramatta, on May 12, of Charles Petterson, of Tabar Islands, New Ireland, in the Mandated Territory.
He left Rabaul last February, a very sick man, but he was nursed back to comparative health at the Wahroonga Sanatorium, in Sydney, and he made plans to return to Tabar in May. Shortly afterwards, he had a relapse, and he died, somewhat suddenly, a week later.
Mr. Petterson was a Swede, and he had been in New Guinea for about 36 years.
He established several plantations for the New Guinea Company, and in 1912 he acquired a plantation of his own on Tatau Island, in the Tabar group. Here, for 25 years, he lived happily. His first wife was the daughter of a chief and, when she died, he returned to his home town (Gelfe, in Sweden) and married a Swedish girl. In February, 1936, we re published, from a German newspaper, the romantic story of Mr. Petterson’s adventures in the South Seas, and of his life on Tatau.