Death Of Mr. S. S. Boye

RESIDENTS of the Southern Solomons and Northern New Hebrides will learn, with deep regret, that Mr.

Sydney S. Boye, well-known manager of the Vanikoro Timber Company, died in Sydney on November 21.

Mr. and Mrs. Boye were in Australia during the latter- part of 1946, on a well earned furlough. They had had a very trying time during the war Vanikoro is not so far away from Guadalcanal— when they were able to give much help to the Allied forces. Mrs. Boye trans mitted meteorological and other infor mation by teleradio and for this was awarded the British Empire Medal.

They returned via the New Hebrides in December, 1946, and Mr. Boye resumed his task of getting the valuable kauri timber off Vanikoro for his Melbourne company. He was not well, however.

Except for four years, just after he was married, he had been in the Solomons since 1911, and the climate had taken its toll. By October, it was clear that he would have to go to Australia for medi cal treatment. A Trans-Ocean flying boat carried him out, and to Sydney; but within three weeks he was dead, from diseases of the blood and kidneys. His death has been a heavy blow to Mrs.

Boye—they had been much together on lonely and isolated islands like Vanikoro.

It will also be a blow to the Company which ha served so well.

Before his appointment to Vanikoro, Mr. Boye was in the Solomons for many years, in Burns Philp employ. He was about 56.

Mr. and Mrs. Boye had two sons—Ken and Don. Hr future plans are uncertain —but she probably will live in Australia.