Death Of Mr. R. A. Laws
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Mr. Richard Arthur Laws, One Of
New Guinea’s best-known mer chants, died in a private hospital in Sydney at midnight on February 14, after 6 weeks’ illness, aged 66.
He was one of the founders of Green wood and Laws, of Rabaul, well-known before the war. After the war, he joined forces with Mr. Robert Gillespie, to be come one of the directors of Robert Gillespie Fty., Ltd., (Sydney) and Robert Gillespie (New Guinea) Ltd. He was the first president of the Pacific Territories Association, which fought for the rights of New Guinea “evacuees” during the war. He was popular, and very widely esteemed. He is survived by his wife, and one son and one daughter.