Death Of Mrs. Florence
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Murray
THE death occurred at Innisfail, North Queensland, on February 14, of Mrs.
Florence Irene Murray, one of the first Australian women to pioneer the New Ireland district of New Guinea, shortly after the First World War.
Mrs. Murray was the wife of Mr. Harold John Murray, of Lakuramau Plantation, near Kavieng. She went to the Territory
in 1922 and to New Ireland about two years later when her husband purchased Lakuramau. With periods away for holi days she lived there until the general evacuation of the Territory’s women and children in December, 1941, about a month before the Jap invasion.
After the end of the war she went back to Lakuramau but owing to ill health re turned to Australia in 1948 and spent her last days at a beautiful home which she had established on the Johnstone River, Innisfail.