Funeral Of The Late
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T. C. Worrall
From Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, May* 20.
THE ashes of the late Mr. T. C. Wor rall, which were sent from Auck land, were interred at the London Missionary Society churchyard, Raro tonga, on May 13. A number of Euro pean friends attended the service.
Mr. Worrall was an Englishman. He first settled in Rarotonga in 1912. In World War I he served with the NZ forces and was severely wounded. Re turning to Rarotonga he established a motor repairing business. At the out break of World War II he again enlisted with the N.Z. army. Mr. Worrall was 56 at the time of his death.
Mrs. Jessie T. Horn, who was in the South Pacific Islands some time ago as a 'member of the company aboard the “Oiseau de lies”, and who since has been residing in Honolulu, is again a wanderer in the South Seas—this time aboard a friend’s yacht, en route to Tahiti. i Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Seton, well-known 881 residents, have purchased the for mer Burns Philp plantation, Lutee, on Choiseul, Western Solomons, which they have been working under lease since their post-war return to the Protector ate. They have also leased Manning Straits. In Honiara, this energetic pair are building up the nucleus of a farm to supply foodstuffs to local residents.
Miss Pauline Hay has returned to Bris bane after spending four months in Papua.
The tragic story of a former Fijian Provincial Scribe, who, after becoming totally blind, attempted to commit sui cide, was told at the Suva Magistrate’s Court in May. The police prosecutor said that, depressed by his blindness, the man (who has a wife and child de pendant on him) found a bottle of what he believed was poison but which actually contained liniment. He drank a small portion before he changed his mind about suicide and before any serious harm was done. The man was bound over for one year.