Death Of Mr. C. Pedersen

THE owner of Volupai Plantation, Tala sea, New Guinea, Mr. Christian Pedersen, died in Sydney on July 2, at the age of 86.

Mr, Pedersen was a native of Denmark, and he went to Australia many years ago, and joined the dairy section of a Government Department of Agriculture.

When he retired, in 1930, he bought Volupai, and became a copra-producer.

He had a narrow escape from the Jap anese in 1942. When civilians were re moved he was very ill, suffering from ptomaine poisoning, and had to be left behind at the Catholic Mission. A little later, however, the missionary, Father Franki, got him away in a launch, and they connected with the “Lakatoi,” which was escaping from the North Coast.

Mr. Pedersen was in poor shape when he arrived in Sydney, but he soon recovered.

Mr. Pedersen was married twice. By his first marriage, he had one daughter.

In 1920, he married Mrs. Woolcott, whose two sons are well known in New Guinea —one of them was lost in the Jap in vasion of Kavieng.