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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1948Vol. XIX, No. 2

Death Of Mr. L. L. F. Rex

p. 33 · Read in the full issue

Tl/TR. L. L. F. REX, a member of a irl well-known Tasmanian pioneering family, who was also very widely known in the Pacific Islands, died at Auckland on July 29.

As a young man he practised law in Australia and then in Tonga. Later he opened a store at Niue Island and made trading trips to many parts of the Pacific, In 1928 he settled in Fiji. For a time he was in charge of the Suva markets and for several years before he left the Colony he was caretaker at the quarantine island of Makaluva.