Deaths Of Islands People

Lir. Alexander S. Tetzner

/Mr. A. S. Tetzner, who died in me on his station in New Zealand, >d a remarkable career. He was illiantly successful in the Russian fblic service, and was a provincial vvernor when the Bolshevik revolu ♦n in 1917 forced him to flee iross Siberia. He started life jain in the insurance business, i d had much success in China and New Zealand. Finally, with his !fe, a Russian Baroness, he settled r wn on his own large property in ew Zealand, and again attained ccess and prominence. He is sur ved by his wife, and his son—Mr. [rgius A. Tetzner, a well-known sident of Suva.

Mrs. E. T. Hart

The death occurred on June , of Mrs. Ellen Terese Hart, aged years, at her home, 128 Correy’s r enue, North Strathfield, Sydney, rs. Hart was the mother of Dr. slie Bruce Hart, who practised a dentist in Suva for 30 years, ior to his death at Suva in tober, 1951. Mrs. Hart, senior, ed for some years in Suva with r son, and was well-known sre.

Mr. Edward Anderson

vlr. Edward Anderson, Chairman Directors of Henderson & Mac •lane Ltd., died in Auckland on ne 16, aged 84. He had been lociated with the Polynesian ands trade since 1918, when he ;ame Managing Director of the mer S. R. Maxwell & Co., which ned the lease of a number of lated islands and had an import b branch in Papeete until the o’s. Mr. Anderson travelled lely in the Islands between 1918 i 1928. He bought into Hender i & Macfarlane in 1920. This firm merly had vessels trading in the jific.

Mr. A. W. James

Ir. Algernon Willie James, a y old resident of Suva, died there le 26, aged 67. Born in England, James went to Australia when y young and from there enlisted the Australian force which occu -1 New Guinea in World War I. the following year he joined the public service, and then trans ■ed to the Second Fiji Contin t and served in France, where was wounded, and twice de ited for gallantry, earning the [tary Medal and Bar. Back in , he joined the Customs Depart it and remained there until his rement in 1946. Since then he been official film censor. Mr. les was formerly a keen soccer r er, and did much to establish game in Fiji, in later years he been a keen bowler.

Mr. James married Miss Jane Cuthbert in 1920. He is survived by his wife and three sons—one in the Suva Customs office, one with NAC in Auckland, and the third with the RNZAF at Lauthala Bay, Fiji.

captain j. m. mckenzie Captain J. M. McKenzie, formerly assistant Harbour Master in Suva, tnd well known in the Western i'acific, died in Suva War Memorial Hospital late in May. He had been :a poor health for s6me time.

Mr. William Tarr

Mr. William Tarr, 78, died at [pia, W. Samoa, at the end of June, ifter a long illness. He was well mown in the printing trad© in ;’iji, Tonga and W. Samoa; and or some years he was Government irinter at Nukualofa. He was later 11 charge of the Samoan Guardian, nd more recently was on the staff :f the Samoan Bulletin. Mr. Tarr lamed Miss Jessie Skeen, daughter f the late Chief Justice Skeen, of I'onga. One of his three daughters : Mrs. Rob Wright, of Suva.

Miss Beatrice Grimshaw

The death occurred in Bathurst, TSW, at the end of June of Miss ;eatrice Grimshaw. She was 82.

Miss Grimshaw was a well-known nd prolific novelist and short tory writer, particularly in the first iree decades of this century.

She lived for a considerable time i Papua, near Port Moresby not ar from where the present Rouna alls Hotel stands, and most of her ovels had a Pacific Islands back round.

She was born in Ireland and in le early years of the century was ammissioned by the London Daily rraphic to travel round the world nd write her experiences. She did ot complete the journey but settled i Papua and later in NSW where er brother had a property.

Her novels and stories were of the ighly coloured variety, all with a ►ve interest centring around some eautiful white woman. Her first ovel, When the Red Gods Call was üblished in 1910. Others (and she üblished 40) included From Fiji ) The Cannibal Islands, In The trange South Seas, New New ruinea, Guinea Gold, The Sor

cerer’s Stone, The Kris Girl, Red Bob of the Bismarcks, Conn of the Coral Islands, etc. _. ___.

Parua Ariki Of Atiu

Parua Ariki, a woman of outstanding character, a chiefess of Atiu Island, Cook Group, and a member of the Island Council since 1934, died at Atiu early in June. Parua Ariki, who was 67, married Maka Kea Ariki in 1903, and traced her ancestry back to Parua Nui Ariki, the leading chief of the island at the time of the coming of the Gospel to Atiu. She exercised a strong influence on Atiu affairs after she was appointed to the Council.

Mr. George Crummer, Snr

Mr. George Crummer, Snr., aged 86, died at Rarotonga on May 17, following a road accident—he collided with a stray horse while riding his bicycle, Mr. Crummer arrived in Raro tonga in 1800 aboard the schooner George Nicholas, in which he had a share, and he became associated with many activities and events in the Cook Islands. A keen photo grapher, he owned a wonderful col lection of old photographs, many of historical interest, and probably the only ones in existence covering many early events in Rarotonga, He was associated with the first cinema to come to the Cooks, and

:t one time he operated a bus ser iice, helped build the old Raro onga hotel, and was interested in ne first sawmill (for manufacture If fruit cases). He leaves three sons ind three daughters.

Mr. T. F. Cody

Mr. T. F. Cody died recently in llelbourne. He had been associated dth gold-mining in Fiji since the Imperor and Loloma mines were jpened—he was an original member If the syndicate, with the late Mr.

"heodore, which financed the prov ing of the field.

Sir Guy Pilling

Sir Guy Pilling, KC, MC, died at Nairobi on June 13 after a short llness. He was well known in Fiji, raving gone to the Colony as a padet in 1907. By 1921, he was assistant Colonial Secretary. In 1926 he was appointed Secretary of he Western Pacific High Com nission, and in 1929 he became assistant to the High Commissioner, lis Fiji service ended when he was ransferred to British Honduras. since 1949, he has been Speaker of he East African Central Legislative Assembly. He was awarded CMG n 1932 and became KCMG in 1941. sir Guy Pilling married Miss Gladys Seville, elder daughter of the late tdr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Garrick, >f Suva, in 1912, and is survived >y his wife, and a married daughter, £rs. Douglas Duncan, of Kenya. A ion was killed in action in 1941.

Emile Robert Stein

Aged 52, and for many years past i clerk in the Papeete courthouse, Cmile Robert Stein died at his home it Mamao, Tahiti, after a long llness, leaving a widow and eight shildren. He was born in Tahiti.

Madame Pierre Herault

Madame Pierre Herault (nee Sugenie Labourre), member of one >f Tahiti’s best known families, died ;here on June 8, aged 49, follow ing an operation.