Death Of Mrs. Gertrude
pp. 85-86 · Read in the full issue
Christian
Mrs. Eliza Gertrude Christian,
one of the oldest people on Pitcairn Island, died of a stroke on February 12. She was 82.
Her father, Samuel Warren, a sailor from a whaling ship, married Agnes, the daughter of Thursday October Christian, on Norfolk Island in 1864 —the year the second party went back to Pitcairn Island from Tahiti. They had made part of that company.
Of Gertrude’s brothers and sisters only one, George, is still living. She leaves a son, Thornton, and a daughter who now lives in New Zealand.
Miss Ida Leeson, former head of the Mitchell Library, Sydney, went to Noumea last year for the South Pacific Commis sion. She spent some months on the classification of the Commission’s library, and returned to Sydney in April.
Mr. Jacob Raihman, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. Raihman of Suva, Fiji, is a student in first year Dentistry at Otago University, New Zealand. He is an ex pupil of the Marist Mission’s Secondary School, Suva.