Death of Mr. V. B. Rippingale

A Well-Known Awa Man, Mr.

Victor B. Ripningale, who was only 46. died suddenly from cerebral haemorrhage on Sentember 28 at Goul burn, where he had been radio technician and announcer at the local station since he was invalided out of the Merchant Navy in 1942. ..

Mr. Ripningale was a veteran of World War I. He served as a radio operator on various ships, and he was on the “Morinda” in the early nart of World War 11. He had many friends in New Hebrides. Solomons and Norfolk Island.

He had been married only four years.

Captain C. W. Seton is in Sydney at present. He expects soon to receive his discharge from the Allied Intelligence Bureau, so that he may return to his work in the Solomons, In recent months, Cantain Seton was in charge of a large patrol of Bougainville natives, carrying on onerations against the Japanese, in the jungles of Bougainville. He was highlv impressed with the good quality of the plateau country in the interior lof the big island, and he also formed a favourable impression of the type of nptivps there. He ioins with those who believe that there is a good future for Bougainville in the era of post-war development.