Death Of Lurline Marama
pp. 39-40 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, April 10.
THE news of the death of Mrs. Lurline Marama in New Zealand, recently, came as a shock to her many friends in Rarotonga, where she had lived for the past twenty years.
“Lurline” was one of the best-loved personalities on the island. She was a famous cook and loved to attend to the commissary arrangements of any “umu kai” (feast) thrown by friend or relative.
Hers was the charm of the French- Tahitian —although her father was an Englishman. She spoke always with a cheerful and voluble French accent.
Mr. Manu Marama went to New Zea land last year and, in November. Mrs.
Marama left her home at Nikao to join him. It was with misgivings that her friends heard that Lurline, always so stout and good-natured, had been put on a diet by her doctor. It was an unhappy presentiment, for in three months she was dead.
Mr. Carl Jacobsen, well-known as a planter and farmer in the Lae district of New Guinea, is now back in Sydney, and in “civvies,” after two years of useful and interesting service with the United States forces.