Death Of Mr. J. T

Mcevoy

INFORMATION reached Sydney this month that the death had occurred in New Guinea of Mr. J. T. McEvoy in circumstances at present unknown ’

When the Japanese struck southwards, in January, Mr. McEvoy, accompanied by the Lorengau radio officer, Mr. H. S.

Taylor, left the Admiralty Islands (Manus) v in Mr. McEvoy’s schooner and it was calculated that they would have reached Rabaul about the time of the Japanese invasion. Nothing was heard of them for some time. Mr. Taylor recently arrived safely in Australia, but it is reported that Mr. McEvoy is dead Mr. McEvoy went to New Guinea nearly 20 years ago as a plantation manager and he later acquired his own plantation in the Manus Group. . When he was in Sydney in 1939, buy ing a schooner, his friends jokingly told him that “he was living too near the Japs for comfort”; neither he nor they realised how truly they were speaking.

Mr. Frederick Moore, manager of the Melbourne Hotel, Suva, Fiji, who had lived in the Colony for over 40 years, died recently, aged 64. Born in NSW, he went to Fiji in 1900 to join A. M.

Brodziak and Company’s staff; then he was partner in the firm of Koroniva Trading Co. For many years he man aged the Rewa Hotel. Mr. Moore is sur vived by two daughters, Mrs. L. Lee and Mrs. B. Storck, and a son, Second Lieu tenant T. Moore, of the Fiji Defence Force.