Death Of Mrs. R. Chugg
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THE death occurred in Melbourne, Vic., on July 30, of Mrs. Holly Chugg, wife of Mr. Ronald Chugg.
The Chugg couple were well known and popular in New Guinea where they had lived since shortly after World War I. Mr. Chugg is a Medical Assistant in the Papua-New Guinea Department of Health.
Mrs. Chugg, as a young bride, was one of the first European women to go to the Territory after the end of the First World War. Her eldest daughter was the first white child to be born in Kavieng.
In later years the Chuggs lived on the New Guinea mainland at Madang and Wewak where they were held in high re gard by residents. Mrs. Chugg has been in ill-health for the past two years.
She is survived by her husband, two daughters. Shirley (Mrs. Manners) and Audrae (Mrs. Tate), and four grand children. , Eighty-three Tahitians who joined the Free French Forces during the war fell in action.