Death Of Fiji Public
pp. 51-52 · Read in the full issue
Servant
One of Fiji’s best-known public servants, Mr. Harold Ivor Horton, died in Suva on January 29. He was an Englishman and had travelled widely be fore going to Fiji where he joined the Customs Department and was later transferred to the Audit Department.
He retired in 1935. but when shortage of staff became acute during the war, he returned to the Audit Department and worked until a few weeks before his death.
He is survived by his wife and son, Mr. E. Horton, who is on the staff of the Western Pacific High Commission.
Sister Elsie Edgar, of the Presbyterian Overseas Mission, will shortly relieve Sister Muriel Campbell at the Paton Memorial Hospital, Vila, New Hebrides.
Sister Edgar is not a stranger to the New Hebrides—this is her second term there. She has also served in Korea.
Mr. and Mrs. E. V. O’Brien, of Mililat Plantation. Madang, New Guinea arrived in Sydney by air on February 2. Mr.
O'Brien was in ill health and entered hospital for treatment soon after his ar rival.
On February 1, French officials and resi dents of Noumea and the American dele gation to the civil aviation conference in Melbourne, who were passing through New Caledonia, attended a reception given by Mr. Long, Noumea manager of Pan-American Airways.
Mrs. Iris Henry, who is known to many Territorians, has been seriously ill in the Newmarket Private Hospital, Brisbane.
She has been ordered by her medical ad viser to go back to the high altitude of Toowoomba (Q’ld.). She met many New Guinea evacuees there on canteen duties during the early portion of the war.