Death Of Fiji Pioneer

Mrs. F. M. Conrody

ONE of Fiji’s oldest residents, Mrs. F.

M. Conrady, died in January at Wainiloka, Ovalau, at the home of her son-in-law, Mr. A. G. McCown.

Mrs. Conrady was born on October 6, 1864. almost 10 years before the cession of Fiji to Great Britain. She was the second European child registered under the Cakobau Government, which was in existence prior to cession.

Mrs. Conrady’s grandfather was the Rev. David Darling, who left England as a missionary to Tahiti in the early 19th century and who later, after the death of his wife, settled in Sydney at what is now known as “Darling Point.”

In the middle of the century his daughter met, on a missionary boat in Sydney, a young Spaniard, named John Rosa, who, at the age of 16. had run away from Santiago, in Chile, on a whal ing boat.

Rosa and Miss Darliner married and eventually came to Fiii where they first settled in Levuka. and later on the island of Koro, where Mrs. Conrady was born.

Mrs. Conrady was married in 1894; her husband was a young engineer from Hanover. —From Fiji Public Relations Office Bulletin.

Another large cargo of Samoan pro duce left Apia in December by the United States ship “Augustus Thomas ”

The shipment included over 1,700 tons of copra and about 400 tons of cocoa. Owing to some cases of mumos on board the ship was under quarantine during her stay, and Samoan labourers working the ship were also nlaced in quarantine after the ship had left.