First War Widow At Lae

Cemetery

From Our Own Correspondent Lae, August 20.

THE first war widow to visit her hus band’s grave at Lae probably the first of many—was Mrs. Mavis White.

She is the widow of QX34.589 Lieut. E.

K. White, of the 2/9th Battalion, who was killed at Shaggy Ridge on January 26, 1944.

Mrs. White arrived by plane from Brisbane on August 13, having been granted a travel permit. All arrange ments for her passage were made by Victoria Barracks, Brisbane, who (Mrs.

White states) were exceedingly helpful in every way. g Mr. Hugh Ragg, of the Posts and Tele graph Department, Fiji, has been trans ferred to the British Solomon Islands Administration.

The death occurred In Suva on August 15 of Miss Hallie Booth, niece of Lady Grantham, the wife of the Governor of Fiji. Miss Booth came to Fiji on a visit last December and made many friends there. When Miss Booth became seri ously ill a few weeks ago, her mother made a hurried trip to Suva from the United States, and was with her before she died.

Mr.D. W. Amos left Suva in August for the Cook Islands where, at the request of the New Zealand Government, he will

organise an anti-filariasis campaign, similar to that in Fiji.