Death Of Mrs. Mollie

Garter

AFTER a short illness, Mrs. Mollie Carter, wife of Mr. H. D. (Nick) Carter, died in Launceston, Tas mania, on March 15. She and her hus band were well-known ex-New Guinea residents Mrs. Carter is best remembered in the Territory as Mrs. Ifould. Mrs. Ifould, then a young Englishwoman, went to New Guinea in the Expro Board days, in 1921, and was one of the first European women to settle in Rabaul and other districts after World War I. Because of her charm and her hospitality, she became well known and highly esteemed in the New Guinea of those days, especially m the Wewak district. In the 30’s, her home at Boram Plantation, represented, to many miners and recruiters, about all there was of civilisation in the district. After she left New Guinea, about 1937, she married Mr. Carter, who also had been a resident for many years. She is survived by her husband, and by her popular daughter (Mrs. Joan Bell, of Cairns, Queensland).