Young Tahiti Resident

Dies Of Wounds

ANOTHER name is added to the grow ing list of those men of Tahiti who have given their lives in the service of their country: Adolphe Arthur Lahar rague, who. on February 11, 1944, died of wounds sustained in the course of his duty. He was the grandson of Monsieur Pierre Laharrague, a French colonial of that fine old type from which many of our Tahitian families are descended.

The Laharrague family have long honoured this writer with their friend ship. A noble fruit-tree, planted by Monsieur Adolphe Laharrague (the father of Adolphe Arthur) stands beside my residence as a perpetual memoir of that friendship.

A memorial service at the Cathedral in Papeete, on February 21, was attended by the high dignitaries of the Colony and by a great gathering of friends ACR.

The Rev. Susie Rankin, of the London Missionary Society, expects soon to return to mission work in Papua. She was farewelled in Melbourne recently, when tributes were paid to her for her work on behalf of churches of various denominations, and the YWCA, while she has been in Australia.

Recent New Zealand casualty lists con tain the name of Corporal Alec Gibb killed in action. Corporal Gibb was a member of the New Zealand Reparations Estates’ staff at Apia, before he enlisted, and his death is much regretted by many

Apia friends.