Death Of Captain "Dick"

Reynolds

PEOPLE of western Papua and Thurs day Island will learn with regret of the sudden death in Sydney, on June 28, of Captain “Dick” Reynolds, one of the best-known and best-loved men of the Torres Strait region. He was the type of big-hearted man who is loved by whites and natives alike —the people of the Fly and Bamu rivers will miss “Cap tain Dick.” He was only 63 years of age.

“Dick” Reynolds and “Wally” Maidment went to Daru 30 years ago as pioneer traders and shippers; and they had been close friends ever since.

Those present or represented at the funeral included Mr. and Mrs. W. Maid ment (Daru), Mrs. Eva Standen (Bamu), Messrs. Carpenter (Thursday Is.), and O’Malley (Papua), Mrs. Cowling (Ply River), Messrs. L. Luff and H. Beach (Daru), Wyborn Pearling Co. (Thursday Island).

Mrs. A. B. Herr old, of Fiji, returned to the Colony from overseas recently.

The Rev. H, V. C. Reynolds, of the Melanesian Mission, BSI, recently visited Maravovo (mission station on Guadal canal, BSI) and writes that it is in a sad state—“ ... a shambles of shambles, not one stone upon another, either at the school or at the Mission Press.”