Two Deaths At Wau
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From Our Own Correspondent WAU, Feb. 15.
WITHIN a week, the deaths have oc curred of two well-known and esteemed residents of the Morobe Goldfields —Mr. Edward Turner and Mr.
Carl Beck.
Mr. Turner had lived in Wau and dis trict since 1932, and at the time of his death was managing the Wau Carrying Co., which he recently sold to Stephens’
Aviation Co. “Ted”, as everybody called him, was known in days gone by for his generosity to any cause in need. Among his many activities, he was a building contractor, and built the present Bank of NSW building and many others in Wau. Mr. Turner is survived by Mrs.
Turner and three children.
Born in Victoria in 1893, Mr. Beck went to Papua in 1923 from Queensland, where he spent the earlier portion of his life. In 1926, he took over management of the Kokopo Hotel in New Britain, but left for Australia the following year. He was at Mount Isa for a while, then re turned to Papua and later crossed to the Morobe Goldfields, where he had been with Koranga Gold Sluicing Co. since 1934. He left a widow and two daughters, Nance (Mrs. J. Lowe, of Bulolo), and Daphne; his brother, Mr. Norman Beck, is on the staff of the Public Works De partment, Rabaul.
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