P. T. K. Richmond Killed

by Native Arrow Extraordinary Case in Kenya

Mr. Phillip T. K. Richmond, Well

known in Fiji where he was a Customs official, met an extraord inary death in Kenya on July 26. He was fatally wounded by an arrow shot by a native bowman, as he left his ho tel at Nakuru in the Kenya Highlands for an afternoon stroll.

Mr. Richmond, an official of the Colo nial Service, was transferred from Fiji to Berbera, British Somaliland. Recently, with his wife and children, he went to the Kenya Highlands for three months leave.

The bushman fired the arrow at Rich mond without warning. There was no apparent motive beyond a growing anti- European campaign in Africa.

Mr. Richmond joined the Colonial Service in Fiji in 1929. He is survived by his wife —formerly Miss Norah Wad dingham of Suva—his two children, Dawn and Morris, and his father, Mr. G. K.

Richmond, now of Sydney, but formerly a cable station official in Fiji.