Territorian Bride
pp. 30-32 · Read in the full issue
Captain J. R. Grey, who has been Ship ping Controller in North Queensland for the past two years, has now been trans ferred to Western Australia to take up a new position.
A former well-known resident of Fiji, Mrs. C. H. H. Irvine, died in Sydney recently. She was married in Levuka in 1874, the year of the cession of Fiji to Britain, and her husband, who later became Attorney-General of the Colony, died in 1903. Mrs. Irvine had been liv ing with her daughter, Mrs. Doyle, in Australia, for many years, Mr. R. F. Freeman, who died recently at the age of 76 years, went to Fiji in 1888 as a chemist for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company. He stayed with the company until 1898 when he leased the Baulevu estate in the upper Rewa. Mr.
Freeman left Fiji a number of years ago and since lived in retirement in Sydney, where he died.
On November 4, 1944, Miss Shirley Evelyn Chugg married Mr. George W. J. Manners, of South Camberwell, Victoria. This photograph shows the couple leaving the church after the ceremony. Miss Chugg was born in Kavieng, TNG—one of the first white children to be born in the then newly-constituted Mandate. She is the elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ron Chugg, well-known residents of New Guinea. Before the evacuation, Mr. Chugg was stationed in Madang.
Mr. Peter Kellert, owner of “Stockholm” and other plantations in eastern New Britain, has had a spell in hospital in Sydney and has undergone a couple of operations. He now is convalescent and appears to be making an excellent re covery. Mr. Kellert, and members of his household, were rescued last year by an Australian commando, after they had been prisoners of the Japs on the north coast of the Gazelle Peninsula for 2i years. While he was in hospital, Mr.
Kellert was visited by a young, smiling soldier—the officer in charge of the com mando which had rescued him in 1944.
Mr. Kellert at first did not know him— the man who got him away in the dark ness before dawn one night was rough and tough and heavily bearded, and did not look very “civilised.” A former re sident of New Guinea, who now holds a commission and a couple of decorations, may be amused to hear this description of himself.
Mr. F. G. Everett, formerly accountant at the Labasa branch of W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji), Ltd., has been transferred to Rotuma, to take the place of Mr. C. E Christoffersen, who left Rotuma some months ago.