Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. W. A. Mossman

We have received advice from relatives in Sydney that Mr. William Andrew Mossman, a resident of long standing in New Guinea, died on a plantation near Rabaul on July 4.

No details have been forthcoming but it is known that he has a daughter living in Sydney.

M. Louis Landre

M. Louis Landre, who was on the Condominium Customs Dept, staff at Santo, New Hebrides, was accidentally electrocuted on Septem ber 23. While on the roof of a building he touched a live wire.

He was only 23 and had a large circle of friends. He was to have been married on October 4.

His mother and grandmother are at present on a visit to France.

Captain Geoffrey Hector

George

Captain Geoffrey Hector George died suddenly in Auckland on Sep tember 15 aged 53.

He held a foreign-going square rigged Master’s ticket. He served his time in the barque Roma and the barquentine Laura, both well known in the Islands around 1920.

In 1924 he and his brother bought the five-masted fore-and-aft schooner H. K. Hall which they operated on the trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman trade under the command of Cap tain Hall.

Later Captain George was master

of the Tine Vineula running out of Auckland, until she was lost in the Tokelau Is. about 1926. Later, as master of the steamer Hikurangi he was well known on the Norfolk Island trade.

He and his brother operated small vessels on the New Zealand coast from 1933 until they were acquired

by the American Armed Forces dur ing the war. One of them, the Miena, now operates in the NG- Solomons area.

With the disbandment of their coasting fleet Captain George acquired the Auckland Launch and Towboat Co., of which he was

managing director at the time of his death.

He is survived by his wife and two sons.

Mrs. Alex Bentley

The death occurred in Suva, on September 12, of Mrs. Alex Bentley,

in her 47th year.

Mrs. Bentley, formerly Miss; Louisa Chriss was born in Levukai Fiji, and had many friends in the Colony where she was an active community worker.

With her husband, she helpeo greatly in the development of the Royal Suva Yacht Club and on many occasions she played hostess to yachtsmen visiting Suva.

She is survived by her husband! two sons, four daughters and three; stepsons.

Major G. R. Warren

Major G. R. Warren, resident o( Rarotonga, Cook Islands for th»i past 25 years, died there in August at the age of 93, shortly after returm ing from a holiday with relatives ii Australia and New Zealand. (Phot© PIM, August, p. 111).

Major Warren was well known ii Fiji. He was associated with thu construction of the CSR railway system on Viti Levu.

Mr. A. Henderson

According to an unofficial repon which has reached Sydney, Mr. A Henderson, who was British Consul in Tahiti for some years and re; linquished that position in 1950, die© in Australia some time ago.

It is known that Mr. Hendersoi

was in very poor health and was undergoing treatment in Melbourne for several months after he arrived from French Oceania. Before going to Tahiti, about 1944, Mr. Henderson had served in the British Consular Service in South America and in Italy.

Teriieroo Teriierooiterai

lost one of her illustrious sons when Teriieroo Teriierooi terai died on August 10.

He was born in the Punaauia iistrict in 1875, and eventually be ame chief of the Papenoo area, fter starting life as a school teacher, n the dark hours of 1940, he, with ie help of Messrs, de Curton Governor) Geo. Bambridge (Mayor )f Papeete) and E. Ahnne and E. dartin (both of the Privy Council) ormed the Tahiti Liberation Move ment* for which he was made )fficier de la Legion d’Honneur and "ompagnon de la Liberation.

On the morning of his funeral, diich was attended by many im ortant people, the general feeling f Tahiti was aptly expressed by the aftly weeping skies.

Mrs, M. Rooke

Mrs, Muriel Rooke (formerly Mrs. eterson) and well-known both in few Guinea and the Solomons, here she had lived since the 20’s, as recently killed in a car accident ;ar Moss Vale, NSW.

She was the owner of Gunter lohe Plantation in the Bainings »Jew Britain). She is survived by 2r daughter Meriel who has been ring in Queensland.