Sudden Death Of Well-Known

Tahiti Girl

Papeete. July 30.

THE Tahitian community learned with deep regret at the end of July that Miss Lea Carlson, daughter of Cap tain Louis Carlson, Papeete port’s official pilot, had died suddenly in Paris, Lea Carlson, young and good-looking— she was only 19 —a notable singer and an outstanding figure in Papeete’s younger

Mr. Gurudayal Sharma, editor of Shanti Dut, has returned to Fiji from the United Kingdom, where he has been the guest of the British Government as a member of a party of visiting Colonial journalists. The second Fiji representa tive, Ratu Naulivou Naucabaiavu, who is responsible for Fijian broadcast pro grammes, presented by the Public Rela tions Office, will take a short course with the BBC before returning to the Colony later this ye?;-.

Late Miss Carlson set, went to Paris a year ago, as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Pedro Eyzaguirre (he is an attache at the Chilean Legation in Paris). She was to have been married in July to M. Jean Brasart, a midship man on the cruiser, “Dumont D’Urville.”

Her frequent companion in Paris was Miss Anatila Nordman. The latter left Paris a few days before Lea’s death to join Mr. and Mrs. William A. Robinson on their yacht, “Varua,” at Honolulu, en route to Tahiti, and she has not yet learned of the tragedy.