Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. Arthur Lorraine

’he death occurred in Brisbane leral Hospital on December 6, of Arthur Lorraine, of Narakapor ntation, about 20 miles up the rkham River from Lae, New inea. [e was 68 and had been in New inea for the past 25 years. He i born in the United Kingdom, [e has been in ill health for some e and arrived in Brisbane for iical treatment on the December south of the Bulolo.

Mrs. Lucie B. Langdale

he death occurred in Auckland December 6 of Mrs. Lucie ,trice Langdale, the widow of the I Captain F. L. Langdale, who many years owned the island of kaya, Fiji. [rs. Langdale was born in uka, 72 years ago; she was nerly a Miss Morris, her grand ents and her parents having n among the first settlers in uka and they were well known mghout the Colony, aptain and Mrs. Langdale also d at Somo Somo, Taveuni, ire Captain Langdale was Gov- Dr’s Commissioner in 1906. They r lived at Savu Savu, where he stipendiary magistrate. In I he retired and the family went ive in England. Captain Lang ; died in London in 1913, and family returned to Fiji four rs later, but finally settled in ikland, NZ. [rs. Langdale is survived by her ghter, Mrs. Beaver (Auckland), her son, Captain M. V. Lang ; (Sydney). The eldest son, F.

Langdale, died in Auckland in I, and Captain Geoff (“Bunna”) gdale was accidentally drowned Canton Island in 1949.

Mrs W. Gibbins

[rs. Winifred Gibbins, wife of • W. Gibbins, formerly of New 'le, NSW, died at Honiara, Solo i Islands, on December 15. She her husband left Newcastle 2i rs ago to become missionaries iched to the South Seas Evan cal Mission Society.

Mr. L. T. Tudor

he death of Mr. Lionel T. Tudor, £ainantu, New Guinea, was re ;ed from Lae on January 12. e was born in Tasmania in June, !, and first went to New Guinea .935 when he became a resident ihe Wewak district. Since the he has been in the Highlands, e is survived by his wife and children.

Mr. William Macgowan

be biggest funeral ever held in : Moresby took place on De

cember 21, when Mr. William Lod wick MacGowan was buried.

“Mac” —as he was affectionately known throughout the Territory, where he was Assistant Director of the Commonwealth Department of Works —died suddenly on December

20. He was 51, and apparently in good health, and his death came as a surprise.

There were tributes and messages of sympathy from all over Papua and New Guinea. The Administrator (Brigadier D. M. Cleland) was among the hundreds at his funeral.

He described Mr. MacGowan as a

man of integrity, imbued with a great sense of civic activity—a man who had given long and loyal ser vice to the country which he loved.

Mr. MacGowan was born in Lon don in 1902 and came to Australia as a boy. He went to New Guinea as an architect for the Administra tion in 1928, and remained until the Japanese occupation. He was one of those who escaped from Rabaul along the south coast of New Britain, and thence to Papua.

In Port Moresby, he was a mem ber of the Town Advisory Council since its inception, and there were few exhibitions of arts and crafts with which he was not associated.

His work as a water colour artist was distinctive and attractive.

Mr. Lewis Hirshon

A very well-known resident of Tahiti, Mr. Lewis Hirshon, died in Lima, Peru, early in January, while on a visit with his wife and friends to South America. Heart trouble caused death.

Mr. Hirshon was an American, and born in New York; and he had been a resident of Tahiti for nearly 20 years. He was held in high esteem. He left Papeete, about three months ago, to travel in South America, visiting friends. He owned a very large estate in the district of Papara; a laundry busi ness in Papeete, and a dairy farm.

Mr. Daniel Joseph Flood

Mr. Daniel Flood, a well-known entertainer and recently manager of the Victory Theatre, Green Lane, Auckland, died in Auckland early December.

Mr. Flood was one of a theatrical touring party which went to the Islands from New Zealand prior to World War I. In 1912 he was

appointed Chief of Customs Tonga, but left there to serve the armed forces and has been New Zealand ever since.

Emile Terii Martin, Jnr!

Mr. Emile Terii Martin, aged son of the well-known Papee business man, Mr. Emile Mart died in Papeete on November after a long illness. He was marri to the former Mile. Piere 1 !

Ravereau of Rouen, France, w survives him, with a daughter, ag eight.

Capt. Fletcher Quintal!

The death occurred on Norfo Island at the end of December Captain Fletcher Quintal, aged ; oldest descendant of the Pitcairne on the Island.

He was a great-grandson of t original Quintal and a grandsi of the original Nobbs, Boun mutineers. His parents had arriv with the Pitcairners on Norfolk 1856 when there were still a fr Australian convict ticket-of-lea men and officers there as can

takers of the old convict settlemeii Captain Quintal was a veteran the Boer War and World War He left the Island when he was and for a long time was a pubk servant in Sydney. When he n turned to Norfolk he held mau public positions.

He married a Miss Nobbs ai. they had two daughters—Mrs. FO Rodgers and Mrs. Westwood. TH photograph was taken by RIM editor when he visited NorfoD Island in 1948. Although then 8 Captain Quintal looked no moo than 60.

He was a highly respected mem ber of the community, and his dea i cast gloom over the Island’s Ne Year festivities.

Mr. C. D. Bates

One of Papua-New Guinea’s be known and highly esteemed Distrir Service Officers, Mr. Charles Dov son Bates, died in Sydney o January 1. He was a former Dir trict Commissioner at Madang, member of the Legislative Counco and one of the war-time heroes the Coast Watchers. He died :

mcester House, while on sick ye from the District Services De ■tment, in which he had served 20 years. Before that he was eight years in the Police. He ived in New Guinea in 1928.

Charlie” Bates was an Assistant trict Officer when the Japs ded in 1942, and he walked rland from the North Coast. He ame a major with the Coast tchers, working in New Britain, i it was there he won the itary Cross. yhen the Japs surrendered at Daul, he was with the first Ad listration body which entered town, and he took over there District Officer. He was respon ie for a lot of the early re futation of the town, firing 1953 he developed a con on which was later diagnosed

as cancer of the lung, and he was sent South In July. His death on January 1 brought messages of sympathy and tributes to his work from all over the Territory, where he was known widely and well.

Director of District Services, Mr.

A. A. Roberts, described his death as “an extremely great loss.” He is survived by his widow and three children.

Mr. Colin Mcintosh

Mr. Colin McIntosh, a very well known resident of W. Samoa, died there in mid-November, aged 75, after 28 years’ residence. He was at first employed by O. F. Nelson & Co., but later was attached to the Public Works Department. He re tired last year. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. M. Young and Mrs. A. Hoeflich.

Mrs. A. B. Edwards

[rs. Sibyl Charlotte Edwards, b of Mr. A. B. Edwards, died in a recently. Mrs. Edwards was n at Taveuni, Fiji; her father, Albert Taylor, was a magistrate re in the 1870’s, he married in 1904; Mr. Edwards i then a junior officer in the Fiji 1 service, but through promotion became District Commissioner [ magistrate and served in many ts of the Colony. [rs. Edwards is survived by her band and a daughter and two s.

Miss Bertie Hilton

[iss Bertie Hilton, aged about years, died at her home at luruloulou, Fiji, recently. Born the Rewa district, Miss Hilton ; for many years a clerk in the jistrate’s court.

Mr. Frederick Carr

tr. Frederick Carr, a resident of , since 1893, died at Suva dur- December, aged 91 years. Mr. r was associated with Charles mings & Co., Levuka, Hugh tiro, and Morris Hedstrom Ltd., ing his years in the Colony. He red from the latter firm 20 rs ago. [r. Carr is survived by four ghters and one son. His wife, nerly Miss Message, of Levuka, ieceased him.