Death Of Henry Dexter
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THE death occurred at Hay ling Island.
Hants., England, on December 9, of of Mr. Henry Dexter, who was a trader at Milne Bay, Papua, for many years between the World Wars. He was about 74.
Mr. Dexter, a world wanderer, came to Papua about the time that the British New Guinea Development Co. Ltd. com menced operations there, and he was well known in the Territory. When he sold out, in the 'thirties, he lived in retire ment in Sydney, and then transferred to London. He settled down to growing tomatoes on his small farm in Southern England: but, as his property was near one of the great ports, he seemed to get the backwash of innumerable air raids, and life there was not comfortable.
He wrote well, and some of his short stories and sketches of New Guinea life were published. He had one daughter, who is a resident of Kenya Colony.