Island Printer's Death
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Prom Our Own Correspondent.
Suva, May 27.
T3ESIDENTS of Fiji were grieved to -■-% learn of the death in Auckland on May 19 of Mr. J. H. Waller, a printer well-known in Fiji and Western Samoa.
Mr. Waller, who was 73 years of age, was born in England and spent many years in the printing business in India before coming to the South Pacific. He was first appointed to take charge of the London Missionary Society’s Press in Samoa and then, in 1927, came to Fiji.
For some years he conducted the Pacific Printery at Suva and edited the “Pacific Press”, both in English and Hindu. He sold the business in 1935.
After a visit to New Zealand he re turned to the Islands and took over temporarily the editorship of the “Samoa Herald”. When he relinquished that position he made an extended visit to England and India and returned to New Zealand in a poor state of health, linger ing only a few weeks after his arrival.