Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. William M. Caldwell,

0.8. E.

Mi-. William M. Caldwell died in iva on October 12, aged 67. He is born in Fiji where he joined e Government service in 1903 and :er was in succession, Postmaster, vuka, Revenue Officer at the easury, District Commissioner of la and Colo East and Assistant mmissioner of Inland Revenue, >m which position he retired in U.

Mr. Caldwell was a past president the Suva Defence Club and was arded the OBE in 1944. rle was closely associated with the jparations for the arrival of ngsford Smith’s Southern Cross its trans-Pacific flight in 1928. was also associated with the iture of Count von Luckner at ikaya Is,, Fiji, during the First )rld war.

Mr. Caldwell is survived by a son the Fiji Police and by three jghters.

Adame Henriette Ceran

Jerusalemy

Madame Henriette Ceran-Jerus my died at Tahiti recently fol ring a fall and the fracture of an n. She was 80.

Ihe was born at Raiatea, and was i grandmother of Monsieur J. B.

'an-Jerusalemy, President of the >emblee Territoriale of French sania.

Mr. Charles Gifford

Hr. Charles Gifford, a resident of hiti for over 20 years, died in innell, lowa, USA, earlier this r, according to advice just re -’ed. Mr. Gifford, who returned bis homeland only last year, was years of age.

Mr. Joseph Gibson

Ir. Joseph Gibson, manager of Grand Hotel, Papeete, died of a rt attack recently. He was 51. [e is survived by his wife, for :ly a Miss Adams, and several Idren.

I Adame Blanche Marie

Furoa Tehonotuahitu

Lagarde

[adame Blanche Marie Puroa lonotuahitu Lagarde died at >eete on September 25. well known resident of French ania, she was born at Taiohae, rquesas in 1895.

Mr. F. W. Clark

(ell known over many years as engineer on Papuan coastal jels, and popular from Samarai Dam, Mr. Frederick Windred rk died in Brisbane on October aged 64, following a heart col se. (hen Captain A. S. Fitch, in I, took to £»apua the little trad

ing steamer Queenscliffe —from which sprang the now big Steam ships Trading Co. Ltd.—Fred Clark was engineer in charge. Later, he took up land in the Kerema dis trict, and planted up Koaru Planta tion —which he sold to the LMS on the outbreak of World War 11. He acted as relief engineer on coastal ships on many occasions. Since the war, he had been in business in Brisbane, and was chief engineer on the pilot ship Matthew Flinders.

He leaves a widow and a grown-up family.

Sister Beatrice Devenish

Meares

Old Rabaul residents will be sorry to hear of the death of Sister Beatrice Devenish-Meares, who looked after so many of them when they were patients in the Namamla Hospital. Miss Meares left the Territory some time before the in vasion and was engaged in nurs ing in New Zealand and later in Newcastle' (NSW). She died in Syd ney on October 22, at the age of 59.

Mrs. John Grant

Mrs. John Grant, wife of Mr. J. F.

Grant, died in Suva on October 30 after a long illness. She was born at Nausori 62 years ago.

She was a vice-president of the Girl Guides’ Association, and of the Suva Basketball Association, and was also a strong supporter and active Committee member of the British Red Cross Society, She was a former president of the Istri Seva Sabha.

Mrs. Grant is survived by her husband, a son, Mr. Edward Grant, two daughters, Mrs. J. B. Singh, of

Suva, and Sister Mary Monica, now in Los Angeles, California, and 12 grandchildren.

Mrs. A. Irvine

The death occurred in Sydney in July, and has just now been re ported to us, of Mrs. Alec Irvine, of “Malaqereqere,” Singatoka, Fiji.

She went to Fiji to live in 1907 and at different times lived in Lautoka, Ba and Nadi, as well as Sigatoka.

Her husband was the son of a former Attorney-General in Fiji, and died in 1951 Mrs. Irvine went to Sydney to live after his death.

She was a very fine woman, well known for her patriotic work. Re sidents of Fiji remember how she won a walking competition at the Singatoka Hotel after she had passed her 80th birthday.

Mr. Homer L. Baker

Mr. Homer L. Baker, staff economist for the Trust Territory of Micronesia, died in Honolulu on September 8, aged 43. He had been chief economic adviser for the Territory for two years and had served as US Representative on the Research Council of the South Pacific Commission, at Noumea.

Mrs. J. C. Collins

Mrs. J. C. Collins, widow of the late Mr. J. C. Collins, of Suva, died in Sydney on October 21, aged 87.

Mrs. Collins arrived in Fiji with her parents in 1870, and was pre sent at the signing of the Deed of Cession at Levuka in 1874. She left Suva shortly after her husband’s death 30 years ago. She is survived by two sons and a daughter, all of Sydney.