Fatal Accident In New
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Guinea
REPORTS from New Guinea indicate that a fatal accident occurred at Soraken, Bougainville, recently, wherein Mr. Peter Foster, a well-known planter, lost his life. He was on a copra barge with his wife and child when the barge caught fire. Mr. Foster ass sted his wife and child to safety but was himself fatally injured when an explosion occurred.
Mrs. Peter Foster is a daughter of Mr.
C. I. H. Campbell, a well-known Bougain
ville planter.
A visitor to Suva is Mr. F. V. N. Budd, who left Los Angeles in his Seabird-type yacht “Tai Manu” in April, 1947, spent six months on the Mexican coast and then sailed to Apia by way of the Marquesas, Tahiti, and Palmerston. At
Apia he sold the yacht to Dr. C. H. Bliss, and travelled to Suva in the “Matua.”
He will visit Australia before returning to America.
Mr. A. D. Patel, a prominent member of the Indian community of Fiji, has been appointed a member of the Executive Council of Fiji.