Ned O’Brien, Well
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Known Ng
Planter, Passes On
A WELL-KNOWN New Guinea planter, Mr. Edmund Vincent O’Brien, died very suddenly at his home in Sydney on July 11, aged 56. He had been suffering a dangerous heart complaint for several months (since he left New Guinea at the end of 1950) and his end was not un expected.
“Ned” O'Brien had been in Papua-New Guinea for 35 years, and was held in warm regard in both Territories. He went there first as a radio officer in the Navy, and he was stationed at Bita Paka before he engaged in planting. He subsequently acquired five plantations on the Madang coast, and he had lived on Mililat, about 16 miles from Madang, for many years.
He is survived by his widow, his two sons John and Jim (who, with his brother-in law, Mr. W. R. Cahill, are now running the NG properties), his daughter Margaret (at present in Europe) and his daughters Alexandria and Mary, who are now with their mother in Sydney.