Mrs. C. G. Chadderton

Dies In Sydney

mHE death occurred on September 9 X of Mrs. May Chadderton, widow of Mr. C. G. Chadderton, a well known plantation owner .of New Ireland. Mr.

Chadderton was interested in three plantations—Kapsu, which he owned; Lamerika, in which he was part owner with his brother; and Dalum, which was owned by Mrs. Chadderton.

Mr. Chadderton was overtaken by the invasion and his actual fate is still un known —but there seems little doubt that he was murdered by the Japs. Mrs.

Chadderton went to Sydney in 1941 and had lived ever since with her daughter at Dulwich Hill, Mrs. M. E. Carter. She was only 51 years old when she died very suddnely from a stroke.

Mr. and Mrs. Chadderton had lived in New Guinea'for over 20 years.

The Catholic Bishop of Rabaul, Right Rev. Leo Scharmach, well-known head of the Sacred Heart Mission in Britain, arrived in Sydney on a short visit at the end of September. Bishop Scharmach was in New Guinea during the whole period of the Japanese occu pation and was a prisoner of the Japs at Vunapope and elsewhere. He, along with other members of his Mission, suf fered great privations between 1942 and 1945.