Sudden Death of Mr.

C. I. H. Campbell

NEW GUINEA learned with a shock, late in September, that Mr. C. I. H.

Campbell, well-known planter, of Bougainville, had died suddenly on Sep tember 25 in London, where he had been with his wife on a world tour.

Mr. Campbell was trained in the bank ing profession: and, after service in Prance in World War I, he was sent to New Guinea at the conclusion of the war, and became the first manager of the Commonwealth Bank in Rabaul. He was young, but he was conspicuous for his natural ability, and for some years he was the Finance Member of the Expropriation Board. He saw the opportunity in New Guinea and he personally bought Raua Plantation, in Bougainville. He resigned from the bank to establish his own general agency in Rabaul; and he con ducted this business until he went to live on and manage his Raua estate. For many years, he was secretary of the Planters’ Association and he seemed al ways to be active in public affairs a useful and popular figure.

When the Jap invasion came, Mr. Camp bell lingered too long, and he and his wife were cut off in Bougainville. They were rescued eventually by the Americans, and brought south to safety in an American submarine. He was one of the first to return to New Guinea and get the benefit of the high copra price, after the war; and he and his wife left on a leisurely world tour in 1949. He will be much missed.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs.

Lala Edith Mary Campbell, and his daughter Nari, now Mrs. Forster, and a grandchild. Mrs. Forster, although still little more than a girl, is a widow. Her husband, Peter Forster, was fatally injured in an accident in Bougainville about two years ago. He, his wife and child were on a copra barge which caught fire and later exploded. He saved Mrs, Forster and the baby, but he died from injuries.