Pioneer

Death Of New Guinea

Mr. E. J. Ifould

THE death of Ernest John Ifould occurred at his residence in New South Wales on November 16 Better known as Tom Ifould, he went to New Guinea m the 20’s and later, in partner ship with Mr. Dick Glasson. one of the Big Six of Edie Creek fame, took over Boram Plantation, near Wewak, which he managed personahy for a number of ye ?rs. When the Sepik Goldfield was established in the mid-thirties, Boram Plantation became the rendezvous for the district s miners and prospectors. The rest houses there provided the only accom modation in the district for the transient visitor for several years—until, in fact, the township of Wewak became estab lished and the district’s floating popula tion gravitated there. P Mr Ifould retired from Boram in the late thirties; he established a home at Church Point, m the Pittwater area near Sydney, and this he also called Bor’am He is survived by one daughter, Joan, who married Lincoln Bell. Mr. Bell it will be remembered, was murdered ’by natives of the Rai Coast area during the war while he was on coastwatching duties.

Mr. Edwin Gold, of Mangaia, who has many amusing stories for the PI 1 M > T was , in in Rarotonga Hospital in early November.