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Pacific Islands Monthly, 14 October 1939Vol. X, No. 3

Sport In Western Samoa

p. 43 · Read in the full issue

Mr. Robert Graham Kerr, who had re sided in the Morobe District, New Guinea, for the past five years after having lived for a long time in Papua, died in Wau Hospital on September 13. When her husband took ill, Mrs. Kerr was on her way to New Guinea from Australia by air, but she arrived a day too late. In ■addition to his wddow, Mr. Kerr left four daughters—two of whom, Mrs. J.

Ecclestone and Mrs. Joan Lane, live in Wau—and a son.

Mr. William Hay, of Burns Philp (S.S.) Co., Ltd., Levuka, Fiji, married Miss Effie Simmons, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Simmons, of Levuka, early in September.

Mr. J. H. Lindon has been appointed to the board of directors of Vacuum Oil Company Pty., Ltd. Since joining the Vacuum organisation three years ago, he had held important executive positions in Australia and New Zealand.

The hard-court tennis champions of Western Samoa, with the trophies won at the annual tournaments held recently.

Photo: Tattersall’s Studio.