at Apia
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Inquest Into Death of W. E. Links, at Apia
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, June 3.
THE inquest into the recent death from gun-shot wounds of Mr. W. E.
Links, a well-known resident of Apia, resulted in the Coroner finding that: “The death of William Edward Links occurred on April 24 at his flat in Apia, as the result of a gunshot wound in the head caused by a bullet from a .22 rifle while he was apparently alone, under circumstances which do not pre clude death by misadventure.” The evi dence did not disclose any reason for suicide.
Miss Gwendolyne Myra Warren. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Warren, of Papatoetoe, Fiji, was married recently to Mr. John Howard Price, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Price, of the same district.
Captain L. Austen, manager of the Papuan Government’s coffee plantations in Eastern Papua, has been spending furlough in Sydney.
Mr. S. T. Brown, of the R.A.N. base at Port Moresby, recently married Miss S.
E. White.
Mr. J. H. MacDonald, of the New Guinea Administration, arrived in Aus tralia in June on long leave. He has re cently been stationed at Manus, as Dis trict Officer.
Miss L. M. Lea, Matron of the Col onial War Memorial Hospital, Suva, is at present on leave in U.S.A. Miss J.
Sinclair is acting as Matron.
The death occurred suddenly, in Victoria, early in June, of Mrs. Boehm, wife of Mr. E. Boehm, of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission station at Aroma, Papua. Mrs. Boehm, a young woman, left the Territory last October, and later was joined by her husband, on furlough, in Australia , , , Our .?“? Moresby correspondent reports that the following engagements !? avo u+^ eel e „ annoU . nC , e A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Lovell, of Manly, Sydney, to Wilham Robert eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Frame, of Port Moresby, Papua; Monica Faith, second daughter of Rev. and Mrs. H. Mathews, of Port Moresby, Papua, to John McAdam, second son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Frame, of Port Moresby, Papua; Marjory Ruth, eldest daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. H.
Mathew 3, Port Moresby, to Roy (Warrant Officer, R.A.N.) second son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Copley, of Ararat, Victoria.