Death Of Early Fiji Settler
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Mr. Robert Lepper
ONE of Fiji’s oldest European residents, Mr. Robert Lepper, died on January 8, at Levuka Hospital, at the age of 95.
He was born in Oxfordshire in 1852 and went to New Zealand in 1880 where he lived for over two years before going to Fiji.
Sixty-five years ago he settled in the salt lake district on the southern coast of Vanua Levu and established a planta tion there at Namawa.
He had been in failing health for some time and had been living in retire ment at Levuka.
He is survived by his wife, a son, Mr.
Alfred Lepper of Namawa and five daughters; Miss Sarah Lepper, of Levuka; Mrs. Robert Haynes, of Maravu, Savu Savu; Mrs. Hartley Palmer of Levuka; Mrs. Frederick Robinson, of Suva; and Mrs. W. Morgan.