Father Gonnet, of Fiji
pp. 77-78 · Read in the full issue
Death Of Well-Known
Priest
FATHER GONNET, well-known figure in Fiji for nearly 50 years died at Makogai on April 30.
Father Gonnet arrived in Fiji at the beginning of the centurv and served at Naiserelagi, Loreto (on Ovalau), the new station of Nabukebuke; and, in 1905, he was recalled to Loreto, in 1910, he be came Procurator of the Mission.
In 1914 he moved to Levuka and re mained as one of the town’s best-known and most highly respected citizens until 1930. In 1934, he was appointed chaplain at the Central Leper Hospital, Makogai where he remained until failing health forced him to give up active work.
The French three-masted auxiliary whirh became schooner Oiseau des lies which became familiar to many Aucklanders during her stay of nearly four months for refit,
sailed recently for the French phosphate island of Makatea. The schooner, com manded by Captain Andre Praud , rea ched Auckland from Papeete shortly before Christmas.