Sudden Death

In Fiji

Of Lady Scott

ONE of Fiji’s leading citizens, Sir Henry Milne Scott, KC, had only just re turned from a business visit to United States and Europe when, on June 27, his wife, the well-known and greatly esteemed Lady Scott, died suddenly. She had suffered for some time from a heart ailment, but her death was quite un expected.

Like her husband, Lady Scott was a member of an old Fiji family. Her father was the Rev. William Weir Lindsay who, long ago, was chairman of the Methodist Mission, at its Navuloa headquarters. He translated the Bible into Fijian, and Lady Scott similarly had an intimate knowledge of the Fijian tongue. The Fijian natives’ love of her was demonstrated at her funeral, when four of the leading chiefs of Fiji acted as her pall-bearers. Her coffin was wrapped in a large Fijian mat.

She married Henry Milne Scott in 1900; and, sharing his notable career, she won the respect and esteem of all of Fiji’s four large communities. She is survived by her husband, and by their one son, the Hon. H. Maurice Scott, DFC, MLC. Two daughters pre-deceased her. The death of one, Mrs. H, E. Snell, only a few months ago, came as a grave shock; and much sympathy is felt for Sir Henry Milne Scott in his double bereavement.

Mr. Dick Honson, son of a well-known family of Chinese merchants long settled in Fiji, has gained his degree of Bachelor of Arts, at Hongkong University. Dick was born in Fiji, given secondary edu cation in Auckland, and in 1947 he went to Hongkong to study economics.