Sudden Death Of Mr. "Tom"

Targett

rpHE sudden death of Mr. Thomas Henry X Targett came as a shock to his many New Guinea friends who felt that “Tom was good for many years yet.” Although well on in his 50’s he was one of the few who escaped from New Britain at the time of the Japanese in vasion in 1942. He has since lived in Townsville.

He went to Rabaul about 1928, and managed both the Kokopo and Wunawu tung Hotels for brief periods; but spent most of his years there in the emnloy of Burns Philp & Co., and W. R. Car penter & Co.

Recently he visited Sydney, received a permit to return to the Territory—to work again for WRC—and was passing through Rockhampton, on March 4, on his way north, when he died.

Tom Targett was one of several Ter ritorial who, within recent months, have died suddenly. He will be missed from post-war Rabaul where, for long years before the invasion, he was popular with all sections of the community. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and the bowling club, and his was the genial dis position that makes many friends.

Dr. G. R. Hemming, of the Fiji Medical Service, has now left the Colony, and is enjoying a well-earned vacation in Queensland with his wife and two children. Dr. Hemming is then due to go to the Solomons as a mission doctor, stationed at Aoba, for the LMS. We understand that a considerable amount of new medical equipment has been ob tained for this mission hospital at Aoba.