Death Of Mr. Alan Campbell

ONE of the best known and most popular men in the Southwest Pacific, Mr. Alan Campbell, died suddenly in Rabaul on September 10. from a heart attack. As a supervisor and manager of Burns, Philp plantation interests, he was a trusted official of the Big Firm. He had been for some weeks in Rabaul, making preparations to re sume active direction of the Choiseul Company’s plantations in Bougainville, for which he had been responsible since 1933. He first became associated with Burns Philp in 1908, as a plantation overseer.

Mr. Campbell served in both World Wars. After the Jap invasion forced him to leave the Solomons, in 1942, he was attached to the Navy and the Allied Intelligence Bureau, and did good work in the ensuing 31 years—mostly at Bris bane, where he attended to shipping and supplies. Mr. Campbell leaves a widow — he had no family.