Rarotonga
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Lived 30 Years On
From Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, June 5.
rpHE death occurred at his plantation X at Nikao, on May 7, of Dr. A. Storey, who had been on Rarotonga for more than 30 years. He is survived by one son, Mr. A. L. Storey, engineer on board the schooner, “Tiare Taporo”.
Dr. Storey was an Englishman who graduated at Manchester and spent his early life in practice in London. Tiring of the daily round he went to Canada, working on a ranch and being attached at one time to the Canadian Army.
Wandering around the world, he went to NZ and shortly afterwards married Mrs.
Engelke, widow of a German planter in Rarotonga. Their land was planted with coconuts and buffalo grass and, being the only dairy farm on the island at that time, was a flourishing concern.
However, when Mrs. Storey was gored fatally by a bull, her husband became a strict recluse.
Dr. Storey is remembered kindly by the Maori population of the island as the man who worked tirelessly to stem the influenza epidemic after the last war. It was largely due to his % efforts that the epidemic was so brief in Rarotonga.
Mrs. R. G. Speedie, wife of the manager of Domara Plantation, Papua, died in Port Moresby Hospital on June 5, after a short illness. She was 32. Mr. Speedie was formerly a member of the Papuan Magisterial Service.