Death Of M. Georges Ahne
pp. 37-38 · Read in the full issue
PAPEETE, August 3.
NEWS was received to-day of the death in Paris of M. Georges Ahne, Deputy of the Colony to France. A semi invalid for some time, he was visiting the Motherland in the hope of a com plete recovery, but succumbed to a final paralytic stroke. Thus was cut short the career of a clever, efficient and popular politician.
Bom in Tahiti in 1903, M. Ahne took his secondary school studies at Papeete,
and his lawyer’s degree at Bordeaux, France. As an able and honest lawyer, he accumulated a major practice in the Islands. After the Armistice of France, he became a fervent De Gaullist, and later was elected by the citizens of the Colony to represent them in France.
Specialising in Economics, he was, on June 8, made a jury member of the High Court of Justice.
His loss will be greatly felt in the Colony, which he served so well. His widow is bringing his body back to Tahiti, for burial here.
Mr. Les. Lawlor, of Suva, Plii, made a quick business trip to Australia, Papua and New Guinea in August, and returned to Suva early in September, The Norfolk Island whaling company, after a very lean 1948 season, recently had . the misfortune to lose their tow boat. Following closely on this, their chaser struck a whale but the harpoon failed to hold.