Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1950Vol. XXI, No. 3

A. M. Roxburgh Dies

p. 114 · Read in the full issue

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In Levuka

MR. A. McP. ROXBURGH, who has lived in Levuka, Fiji for “just on 20 years, died suddenly on October 7 as a result of a fall into the rocky bed of Totogo Creek, which runs through Levuka. He was 50 years of age.

He was born in Scotland, went to Fiji from Australia, after working for some time in the Philippines. He was at first employed in the Levuka branch of Burns Philp (SJ3.) Co., Ltd., but later joined Morris Hedstrom, Ltd.

Mr. Roxburgh was a talented artist and in his youth, while a student at the Glasgow School of Art, he was one of a group which painted murals for the 1924 Wembley Exhibition. From time to time in recent years his cartoons have appeared in the Pacific Islands Monthly.

He was secretary of the Levuka Cham ber of Commerce and the Levuka Bowling Club.

He is survived by his wife (formerly Mrs. N. Crooks), a son and a daughter and two step-daughters.

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