Death Of Mr. Ernest Till

THE death occurred in January last, at Lae, New Guinea, of Mr. Ernest Till, who had been a very old resi dent of the Territory. He came from Czecho-Slovakia, and he established his first plantation on tiny Pigeon Island, off Kokopo, but later moved to the Bainings, behind Rabaul. He and Mrs. Till (who was his third wife, also a Czech, who survives him) were caught on their plan tation by the Japanese invasion, and they spent 3i years in a Jap internment camp.

He had three daughters. One married Mr. Isenbert, who has now returned to Lae; one married Mr. Batze, a member of an old New Guinea family, who is now back in the Territory, on the staff of BGD: and the third is the wife of Mr. Rudolf Jahnke, at present in Sydney awaiting a ship whereon to return to their plantation in the Bainings.

Mr. Cyril Doyle, a well-known planter in TNG, in pre-war days, has returned to Papua-New Guinea, and intends de voting his attention to trading.