Death of Mrs. A. Q. McGowan

THE death occurred in Sydney, late in May, of Mrs. Ella McGowan, wife of Mr. A. Q. McGowan, one of Fiji’s well-known business men. She had been ill for some considerable time, and came to Sydney in search of specialist treat ment. She was a daughter of a Fiji family, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Kennedy; and she was held in high regard by all who knew her. She is survived by her hus band, and one son and two daughters— Mr. George McGowan, now abroad, Mrs.

Smith (wife of a New Zealand officer), and Miss Doris McGowan. As a mark of sympathy with Mr. McGowan, flags were flown at half-mast in Suva on May 29.

One of Fiji’s best-known cricketers, a Fijian named Aminiasi Turaga, was elec trocuted recently. He was assisting in timber-getting, near the Vatakoula mines, when he somehow came into con tact with a live wire and was killed instantly. He was an extremely fast left hand bowler.

Rev. W. W. Danks, who was for some five years a Methodist missionary in New Britain, died* on June 23. He was the only son of Rev, Benjamin Danks, who was one of the pioneer missionaries in New Guinea and who, later, was general secretary of the Methodist Missionary Society.