Member Of Fiji Pioneering

Family Passes

MRS. MAUDE KEELING, widow of the late Arthur Keeling, well known in the Central Pacific, died at her home in Auckland on July 23. She sur vived her husband by only one month.

Mrs. Keeling was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Bayly, and was born in Levuka, Fiji, 67 years ago. She married Mr. A. D. Keeling, about 30 years ago in Suva, where he was accountant at the Bank of New Zealand.

Subsequently she resided with her hus band at Apia, Samoa, and then m New Zealand, and on his retirement they settled in Remuera, Auckland. She leaves a son, ‘John, and daughter, Betty, in New Zealand, and two sisters, the Misses Bayly, and a brother, Mr. J. P. Bayly, in Fiji. ..

The New Caledonian Chamber of Agri culture has received from Tahiti'a con signment of coleoptera which, i n the larvae stage, attacks and destroys banana parasites. The Chamber is now breeding these insects, and will be in a position to distribute them to colonists within a few months.