Death Of Well-Known
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Morobe Woman
THE death in Sydney on February 5, of Mrs. A. J. Peadon, one of New Guinea’s best-known women, has been a great blow to her many friends.
She had been seriously ill for a long time and, since October, 1945, an inmate of Petersham Hospital, Sydney, where she appeared, at one stage, to be re sponding to treatment.
Her husband has mining interests in the Ramu district and Mrs. Peadon lived there until the evacuation of women at the end of 1941. During her “exile” in Sydney she organised the New Guinea Branch of the Country Women’s Asso ciation and had been the branch’s presi dent since its inception.
Mrs. Peadon was an extremely good hostess, with a gift for organisation and gathering people around her, and these attributes she had used unstintingly on behalf of New Guinea residents and Servicemen during the hard, evacuee years.
The Peadons had no children. Mr.
Peadon is at present living at Dover Heights, Rose Bay, Sydney.