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Pacific Islands Monthly, 18 August 1944Vol. XV, No. 1

Death Of Mrs. Jane

p. 34 · Read in the full issue

Beddoes

AFTER a residence in Fiji of over 50 years, Mrs. Jane Beddoes, widow of the late Ernest Beddoes, died in Suva on June 18. The Bishop of Polynesia conducted her burial service.

Mrs. Beddoes was born in New Zealand 81 years ago and came to Fiji Tn 1888, marrying three years later, and living with her husband on a plantation on the Rewa River. Later they settled in Suva.

She is survived by two daughters and two sons: Carl (of Wellington); Phyllis (Mrs. Tretheway, of Sydney); Zena (Mrs.

Michel, Fiji); Percy, of Australia; and three sisters: Mrs. John Rennie, of Suva; one in Vancouver, and one in South Africa.

The Rev. H. V. R. Reynolds, of the Melanesian Mission, is on three months’ furlough, which he is spending in New Zealand.