Mr. Alf Gibson, Of Papua,

Killed In Accident

ONE of Papua’s best-known residents, Mr, Alf Gibson, was accidentally killed on January 4, and was buried on January 5, Mr. Gibson spent most of the years be tween the wars as a member of the staff of the Government Printing Office, Port Moresby; and he was foreman there, fol lowing “Ted” Baker, in 1942, when evac uation occurred. Having completed 28 years’ service, he retired on pension; but he returned to the Territory about 1947 to carry on his photography business, which he had developed most successfully from a lifetime hobby. Mr. Gibson mar ried a New Zealand woman, but there was no family. Mrs. Gibson, to whom the sympathy of many friends will be ex tended, has been living in Sydney in re cent years.