Deaths Of Islands People

Mrs. W. Willoughby -

Tottenham

One of Fiji’s best known and re ected residents, Mrs. W. Wil ighby-Tottenham, died in Suva February 23. 3he was the daughter of the Rev.

Attenborough but was adopted a child by the fourth Earl of effiield. She served with dis iction in the VAD and WAAC in e First World War and in 1921 irried Major Willoughby- Totten m. Together they settled on a mtation near Savusavu, Fiji. [n recent years they have lived Suva where Mrs. Willoughby ttenham interested herself in vn beautification and during the ;ent war organised a canteen for 5 men of the Fiji Military Forces. 3he was created an MBE in 1936

: her public services.

Miss R. A. Mune

rhe death occurred in Suva in bruary of Miss Rachel Anne me, a member of one of Fiji’s

rly families.

3he was bom in Victoria and rived in the Colony about 70 ars ago with her parents. 3he was a member of the Fiji

Civil Service until she retired some years ago, She was a tireless worker for charity. She is sur vived by her sister Mrs. Lily Carr of Australia, Mr. Victor Mime of Suva and Mr. Arthur Mune of Ba.

Mr. O. B. Corbett

Mr. Oscar Bowyer Cor

BETT of the Fiji Public Works Department, died at Lautoka, Fiji, in February. He was in his sixties and was born in Suva.

He joined the Government ser vice in 1912 as an engineer on

Government boats but later took a shore job with the PWD.

He is survived by his widow, five sons and three daughters.

Mrs. Ross Elliot

Mrs. Ross Elliot well-known former resident of Fiji died in New Plymouth, NZ, on February 4, after a long illness.

She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Addis, formerly of Fiji, and trained as a nurse at the Suva Colonial War Memorial Hos pital between 1931 and 1936. She rejoined the hospital staff in 1938 as a sister.

She married Mr. Elliot while he was on the staff of the Bank of New Zealand, in Suva, and they

have two daughters at school in the Dominion.

Mr. O. Savage

In an undated letter from the Cook Islands, the death has been reported of Mr. Oswald Savage, at one time a well-known trader in the Outer Cooks and, at the time of his death, on the staff of A. B.

Donald & Co. of Rarotonga.

Mr. Savage learned his trading in the United States and had a distinguished career in France during World War I where he re ceived the Military Medal, He married a French girl while on active service and took her to the Cook Islands where she died about 14 years ago.

He is survived by his second wifi an Islander, and several children

Mons. E. A. A. Touze

Through our Tahiti correspor dent comes an interesting poc script to the Makatea story (Pin January, page 65) from Madanr Cassiau, mother of Dr. Pier: Cassiau, of Papeete.

Madame says that the fin Director of the phosphate compan operating on Makatea, Monsiei!

Etienne Antoine Alphonse Touz died in Paris on December 13. 195 aged 81.

He first arrived in Tahiti in 19K as Chief of Public Works, but : 1907 he resigned to join his brothej in-law, M. Albert Goupil, to prospe: and exploit phosphate deposits French Oceania. They form*, a company known as Socies Francaise des lies du Faciflqu with a capital of 125,000 francs.

In the following year, when tL ill-fated Norwegian ship Oces Queen arrived in Papeete befoc sailing on to be wrecked on Makabc (see photo PIM, September, 1949 Mr. John T. Arundel, of the famoc old London firm of that narn opened negotiations with Messi; Touze and Goupil. As a resui the French company amalgamate with what was to become tl; British Phosphate Commission. Tl r new company, so formed in Papeet was renamed Compagnie Francaii des Phosphates de I’Oceanie.

M. Touze was director of this ne company until 1922, at Makat© when he returned to Paris to tl; head office. He finally retired fro: the company in January, 1949, whu he was pensioned.

M. Touze married Miss Sars”

Goupil in 1907. He leaves a wido and two daughters. The Goupx are one of the best-known Fremi families in Tahiti.