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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 June 1940Vol. X, No. 11

Death Of Old Papuan

p. 36 · Read in the full issue

Resident

From our Own correspondent May 20 „ rTTH the oldeV reLents W 1 ™ *55? ** 2 f ,^ M°resby leamea. °Jv death of a well mfl aw St in p resident, Mrs J - G - Cairns Hospital, on May 10, after a long illness.

Mrs. Grahamslaw, who arrived first in

Port Moresby in 1910, leaves a widower, Mr. J. G. Grahamslaw, one son, Mr. T.

Grahamslaw, and five daughters, Mes dames Baldwin, Leydin, and de Boom, and Misses May and Ivy Grahamslaw.

Mrs. Grahamslaw had been continu ously in rt Moresby for 29 years. She was deeply inspected and loved for her self-sacrifice, devotion to her family and never-failing kindness to her friends, She will be greatly missed; and her passing leaves a sad gap in the ranks of the fast diminishing band of early pioneers.