Deaths Of Islands People

Dr. Edwin Hunt

Dr. Edwin Hunt, who served as edical officer In Niue and Western unoa for many years, died in Suva i August 16, aged 85.

He had been living in retirement Fiji for many years.

M. Leon Varney

Monsieur Leon Varney, a well own accountant of French eania, died in Papeete, September from a heart attack. He was 56.

L Varney was the son of a mer manager for Etablissements nald in the Marquesas, and was n there. He was the father of )-Lieutenant Raymond Varney 0 was killed in Indo-China in »ruary of this year.

Mr. W. A. Macgregor

he death of William Alfred Mac gor, manager of the Baiyer River jstock Station, Western New nea Highlands, occurred at the ion on September 12. He died in sleep and on his 58th birthday, •ibute to him and his life in NG ears elsewhere in this issue, fter World War I service, “Bill”

Gregor went to the British Solo -1 Islands as a plantation over , and he enjoyed telling the 7 (published some years ago in > of how he came to leave the ectorate for New Guinea. He other plantation men were in -3d in a plantation “war” with *. Malaita boys and during the ;mg some of the natives were ± MacGregor and another were ged with the killing and sent uva for trial where they were ided by Sir Henry Milne Scott. were acquitted and, according tacGregor, he was returned to * in style in the Governor’s e of his hobbies was amateur , and until his death he ited a “ham” station from the lands, keeping regular “scheds” other enthusiasts throughout territory. , leaves a widow, Mrs. Ruby Tregor, of Clarence River, ; a son John, with DDS&NA Patrol Officer stationed at e, and a brother, Mr. Roy rregor, of Madang, NG.

Mrs. Michael Lynch

5 - Caroiine Lynch, wife of the Michael Lynch, died at the . of Compassion, Fiji, on . after many years resi m the Colony. was married at Lautoka in and with her husband lived great many years in the Dre tiver district. Mrs. Lynch has an invalid for the past three following an accident, is survived by a son employed 3 Colonial Sugar Refining Co.

Mrs. Muriel F. Beveridge

Mrs. Muriel Frances Beveridge wife of Mr. John Beveridge formerly of Fiji and the British Solomon Islands Protectorate died on August 11, at Reading, England after a short illness.

Mrs. Beveridge arrived in Fiji with her husband shortly after World War I and lived for a time at Taiievu Mr. Beveridge later en tered the Government service and held posts in several parts of the Colony.

They went to the Solomons before the Second World War, where Mr Beveridge was in the Western Pacific High Commission service After a period of 11 years there they !eft for Berkshire, and bought a small farm. Mr. Beveridge’s address is Glebe Farm, Brimpton, near Reading, Berkshire, England.

Mr. John Williams

Caldwell

Mr. John Caldwell died suddenly at Suva hospital in September, aged Born in Fiji he was the son of the late Mr. C. V. Caldwell, a District Commissioner in the Colony.

John Caldwell had been an em ployee of the Fiji Posts and Tele graphs Department and later in the Lands Department as a surveyor with the Native Lands Commission.

He was a keen yachtsman and a foundation member of the Royal Suva Yacht Club, having imported the yacht Miranda II from Sydney He was also an enthusiastic foot baller. Mr. Caldwell is survived by his wife and two daughters.

Mrs. G. Stephens

Mrs. G. Stephens, born on Wes tern Samoa and a resident of Fiji

on Augustus 0 yearS ’ di6d ln Suva andYd C a U ug U ht e er and by three (o s “ s

Madame Augustine

Malinowski

Madame Augustine Malinowski, a resident of Tahiti since 1913, died in Papeete on August 24, aged 74.

A son is a well-known and popular Customs Officer in Papeete.

Mr. Ua Turua

Ua Turua, a former Rarotonga Island Councillor, a member of Cook Is. Legislative Council and President of the Cook Islands Pro gressive Association, died at his home on August 26.

A service was held the following morning at the LMS church at Avarua, and a funeral ceremony at Ua Turua’s residence.

Mr. T. M. Bryce

Mr. T. M. Bryce, Manager of the Bank of New South Wales in Suva from 1940 to 1943, died in Mel bourne on September 17.

Mrs. Shri Raman

Mrs. Shri Raman, wife of a well known former civil servant of Fiji, died in Suva on September 22.

Mrs. Shri Raman was the mother of Dr. Satyanand, leading member of the Indian community in Auck land.

Mr. E. S. Weaver

Mr. Ernest Stanley Weaver well known Suva resident, died there on September 11, aged 67.

Mr. Weaver, who was born in England and served with distinc tion in the First World War, went to the Colony in 1919, as drapery manager for Walter Horne & Co.

He married Miss Lilly Williams, formerly of Melbourne, in 1922. He is survived by his wife and five children.

Canon Robert Rook

Canon Robert Rook, father of Mrs. Doris Chapman of Norfolk Island, died there early in Septem ber. He was 92. Cannon Rook re tired from his post at St. Andrews Anglican Cathedral, Sydney, in 1939, and was still an honorary Canon of that Cathedral at the time of his death.

He has lived on Norfolk Island since retiring.

He was ordained in 1888 and for many years honorary cler secretary of the Church of Engl Homes in Australia.

Mrs. Margaret (“Maxie

Levien

Mrs. Margaret Levien died Melbourne on September 9. was the widow of the late Ceci Levien whose influence in the esl lishment of large-scale gold mb and aerial transport in New Gu: places him as one of the most ( spicuous figures in the historj that Territory between the Wai As far as is known, Mrs. Le never went to New Guinea, the her husband was there from £ World War I until just before death in Melbourne in Jam 1932. He resigned his post as trict Officer, Morobe, where he been stationed two years, in His duties as DO had convinced that there was gold up on top, he was right.

Armed with the first New Gu Miner’s Right he headed tow what is now Wau, to find Mi Park, Nettleton and Sloane pan rich gold at Koranga.

Three years later when the Creek field was discovered it Levien who realised that its full ploitation depended on air tr port. He headed south to org£ what became Guinea Gold, which took control of a large g of leases in Koranga and B areas, and in April, 1927, the aircraft owned by this Company into Wau—or what is now W from Rabaul. This was the pioi ing venture that later be< Guinea Airways and Bulolo Dredging Ltd.