Death Of Mr. O. B. Hug

; rfiHE death occurred suddenly in Bulli 1 Hospital (NSW South Coast) on September 28 of Mr. Otto B.

Hug, better known throughout the British Solomons, where he spent over 30 years, as "Bunny” Hug.

Born in Sydney in 1886, educated at Melbourne Grammar School, he went to

sea at 16 but gave it up for farming in Western Australia. Drought finished that venture and he went to the Solomons in 1911. Apart from World War I service he remained there until the general evac uation of 1942.

In BSI he was first with Lever Bros. and Burns Philp but, later acquired a property of his own at Maru Bay, San Cristoval.

He married.' in 1924, the daughter of the late Dr. Wm. Andrews of Melbourne, who survives him. During World War 11, Mr. Hug was doing intelligence wortc for the Royal Navy. He retired in 1946 and since then he and his wife have been

living at Thirroul on the NSW South Coast.

His death removes yet another of that dwindling band of Solomons residents who knew the Protectorate as it was before war and the British Socialistic bureaucracy all but sounded its death knell. Old Solomon friends will be sorry to hear of his passing.

Mr. O. B. Hug