Death Of Miss M. I.

Grayburn

THE death occurred in Suva on April 16 of Miss M. I. Grayburn, a resi dent of Fiji for 79 years.

Miss Grayburn was born in Dunedin, NZ, in 1868, and came to Fiji with her parents when she was 12 months old.

The family lived for some years on Vanua Levu and afterwards settled down in Suva. In later years Miss Grayburn made herself responsible for the wel-

A Tribute

11TITH the death of Miss Mary Graburn, T? Fiji loses one of its best-known and greatly loved personalities. Tall and dignified, with snow-white hair, she was affectionately known as “Aunty Mary,” and she celebrated her 80th birthday on March 31. She was very kind to those in trouble, and she loved to share in the joys of her friends—she was a lady in the truest sense of the word.

For many years she had been a friend to country narents, looking after their young sons, s'eeine that they had the best of food, and sowing in their young minds the seed of moral discipline to serve them well in later years. Two genera tions of boys have nassed through her hands, and all will recall, with tears of sorrow that she has oassed to her rest, the hapnv memories of the house in Knollys Street.

It is a stranere coincidence that our beloved Aunty Marv died on the birth day of her sister, Mrs. Osella Barrack, with whom she has lived for a number of years, and who, with her sister, Mary, is equally loved and respected for kind ness to all who need a helping hand.

Mrs. Elliot Lloyd, who is en route from NZ to join her husband in Apia (where he is now director of the new Samoan broadcasting station) knows the Islands well, in recent years she has lived with him in various parts of the Gilbert and Ellice Colony (including Ocean Island Canton Island and Tarawa) and she was a year in Suva during the war, awaiting permission to join him.

The late Miss Grayburn fare of many children from country districts who were attending school in Suva.

Miss Grayburn is survived by two sisters. Mrs. Osella Barrack (Suva), and Mrs. Tom Laurie (Sydney).