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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 May 1951Vol. XXI, No. 10

Death Of Mr. A. Mckenzie

p. 75 · Read in the full issue

Mr. Alexander Mckenzie, Who

for 11 years until 1947 was Director of Education in Western Samoa, died on March 28, at Takapuna, Auck land, New Zealand, at the age of 65.

He had seen service in New Zealand, Niue Island and the Cook Islands before coming, in 1936, to Western Samoa, where he was a popular and greatly respected Government Official who did splendid work in the development of education in Samoa.

Mr. Henry Burton, of Bulolo, NG, is at present in Greenslopes Military Hos pital. Brisbane, for treatment. He is a British ex-serviceman and was a prisoner of the Japanese for nearly four years—two of them on the Burma Railway. Later, he was shifted to Siam and Japan.