Papuan Family
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Death Of Mr. Ernest Henry
Craig
Third Generation Members of Old Papuan Family
AFTER a brief illness, Mr. Ernest Henrv Craig, of Sudest, Papua, died on May 11, at Samarai Hospital.
Mr. Craig was the third generation of an old nioneering family in Parma. His grand-father, Captain John Adam Craig, carried on the business of pearl fishing in Papuan waters, and it was he who took the first nioneers to Sudest to onen up gold mines. He was killed by natives on the Fly River in 1891. (Another renort states that he was killed by natives while nearlfishing off Sudest and his ship burnt to the water’s edge.) His father, Thomas Ernest Craig, soent most of his life in the Islands as a trader, and finally settled in Sudest. He and his wife are now domiciled in Samarai.
Ernest Craig was born in Cooktown.
North Queensland, and was educated at the Church of England Grammar School, Brisbane. He was well known in sporting circles, being a keen cricket and tennis enthusiast.
He is survived by his wife (who was former!v Miss Dell Mullin of Brisbane) and his seventeen-months-old son, Richard John Ernest Craig.
Miss Susan Ellis., daughter of Sir Howard and Lady Ellis, of Suva, Fiji, was one of 74 girls who made their debut before the Governor-General of New Zealand («ir Bernard Freyberg. VC) and Lady Frevberg. at Government House, Auckland, on Mav 1??.
Mrs. Maude Fry, who was a resident of Fiji for several years, and who more re cently fras been living in Australia, sailed from Sydney for England by the “Strath eden” at the end of May.