Lami, Fiji
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Death Of Louis Rogers, Of
rE death occurred recently in Lami, Fiji, of Mr. Louis Rogers, descen dant of a French colonist. Roderique, who settled in Fiji as far back as 1812.
Mr. Rogers was 70 when he died, and was well known as a boatbuilder and owner of small pleasure craft at Lami.
His family have used the Anglicised ver sion of their name for many years, but the original Roderique came into the South Seas from the Philippines with a number of Filipinos and people of French and Spanish extraction. They reached Fiji, and in 1812 were granted land by the Fijian chief of the Lami district.
Mr. Alport Barker, publisher of the “Fiji Times and Herald,” who had been ill in Suva for several weeks, returned to active duty in October.