Death Of Mr. D. G.

Irvine

Well-known Papuan Planter

THE death of Mr. Don G. Irvine, man ager of the Commonwealth Copra Co. Ltd. at Gili Gili. Eastern Papua, at the age of 44. occurred in Samarai Hospital on July 16. following a sudden heart attack.

As a boy, Mr, Irvine served his ap prenticeship on board the four-masted

barque “Lauriston”, and at the outbreak of war, while still in his teens, was mate of one of the American Fruit Packing Co.'s steamers running between New York and the West Indies. At first opportunity he proceeded to Ireland and enlisted. After service with the Royal Irish Rifles, he transferred to the Motor Machine Gun section of the British Army and rose to the rank of Captain, After being severely wounded in 1917, he was invalided to Australia.

Following his convalescence, after a brief period with Parson Bros., of Bris bane. Mr. Irvine entered the service of the Expropriation Board in New Guinea.

In 1925 he went to the British Solomon Islands in the employ of Levers’ Paci fic Plantations Pty. Ltd., and in Janu ary, 1929, was transferred to Gili Gili Estate in Papua, as manager.

With a happy disposition and a gen erous outlook on life as it is presented in the Islands. Mr. Irvine has left very many friends to regret his untimely pass ing. His wish was to be buried at sea but this could not be arranged and he was laid to rest on Cemetery Island, alongside the late Captain Bunting. A guard of honour assisted in the funeral ceremony.

Mr. Irvine leaves a widow, who was with him at the time of his death.

Dr. Thomas Clunie, Medical Officer at Labasa, Fiji, has been transferred to the Central Medical School. Suva.

Mr. John Robins, of Guinea Airways, Ltd.. New Guinea, will marry Miss Flora Mitchell, of Annandale, Sydney, at All Saints’ Church, Woollahra, on August 30.

They will sail for New Guinea in October to make their home at Lae.