Mrs. S. C. Axam
pp. 29-30 · Read in the full issue
Death of Old New Hebrides Settler
From a Special Correspondent
Vila. Nov. 10.
MRS. Alice Axam, wife of Mr. Sydney C. Axam, who had lived on South Santo for 36 years, died in the French Hospital at Segond Channel on October 25, a few minutes after admis sion.
As Miss Watson, she came to the New Hebrides from Australia with her par ents in 1005 to join her brothers, Wil liam and Robert, who had acquired land on Santo Island a year or two previ ously. In 1914, she and Mr. Axam (who had taken up planting on a neighbour ing block of land in 1904) were married by Rev. F. G. Bowie. MA, of the Presby terian Mission.
Mrs. Axam left two sons, George and Frank (both in the AIF), and a daugh ter, Margaret, who is living with her father on Santo.
The small European community on South Santo is, and has been for many years, particularly happy in that plant ers, traders, Government officials, and missionaries pull together for their mutual good, and for the good of the local natives and the students at the Teachers’ Training Institute on Tangoa.
Not the least contributing factor to this, perhaps unique, state of affairs was the life of the late Mrs. Axam, who will be sadly missed by all who knew her.
Mr. W. Holloway, of Rockhampton, Queensland, has replaced Mr. Charles W.
Dickenson at the Thursday Island branch of the National Bank of Australasia. Mr.
Dickenson is now serving at the Brisbane branch.
The motor vessel “Trinity”, owned by Mr. Fred. Evennett, of Samarai, who died recently, has been purchased by the BNG Trading Co. Ltd., for service along the western coast of Papua.