Death Of Mr. C. H. Chester

Well-Known Bp Executive

THE Australian business world which is * interested in Pacific affairs learned on April 4, with a shock, of the sud den and untimely death of Mr. C. H.

Chester, one of the most prominent and best-known officers of Burns Philp & Co, Ltd. He was public officer and head office inspector of the principal company, and he was also manager of the Burns Philp Trust Company, Ltd.—an organi sation for which he was in part respon sible, and for the success of which he could take much credit.

Much of the important business of the Big Firm’s headquarters passed through his hands, at some stage or other; and the hundreds who came into contact with him found him to be a most efficient, painstaking and courteous officer. At his funeral on April 5 the Sydney business world paid him a remarkable tribute of respect.

Mr. Chester was only 54 years old. He had a slight seizure when taking a bath a couple of weeks prior to his death.

Then he seemed to recover, and was get ting ready to resume business, when he suddenly lapsed into unconsciousness, and remained so until he died. A brain haemorrhage seems to have been the cause of death.

A remarkable number of prominent Sydney business men have died lately, in a similar manner, from a collapse of heart or brain. The explanation, of* course, is the fearful strain under which business executives, for several years, have been compelled to work—due partly to war conditions, and partly to the ceaseless muddling and interference of the Socialist Governments which the Australian people, in their wisdom, have put in charge of the nation’s affairs in wartime.

Recent departures from Western Samoa for overseas were Judge and Mrs. H. L.

Young, Dr. P. R. Skinner, and the Rev.

C. L. Williams (of the Methodist Mission) and family.