Death Of Oldest Member
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Op N.G. Police Force
From Our Own Correspondent
Rabaul, Dec.B.
Vl^ ARRANT Officer Harry McFarlane, who had the longest record of ser vice in the N.G. Police Force, died in Namanula Hospital on November 29, aged 52. His funeral was one of the largest Rabaul had ever seen.
Mr. McFarlane served in the Great War at Gallipoli, and in the Royal Navy with the North Sea Fleet. He also took part in the landing at Kabakaul, New Britain, with the Australian forces, in September, 1914. After the War, he joined the R.A.A.F., and then, in 1923, came to New Guinea, where he was held in very high regard. . Mr. Francis L. W. Whitlock, manager of Lever’s Pacific Plantations Pty. Ltd.’s estate at West Bay, British Solomon Is lands, died from cerebral malaria on November 22, when he was returning to 8.5.1. from furlough in Australia by the Malaita. He was buried at sea. Mr. Whit lock had spent 12 years in 8.5.1.
Rev. F. J. Searle, Principal of the Lawes College, Fife Bay, Papua, arrived in Sydney by the Macdhui on December 15 to spend furlough on the Blue Moun tains, N.S.W. Mr. Searle is a member of the London Missionary Society’s staff.