Deaths Of Islands Peddle

Mr. J. P. Samuels

he death occurred unexpectedly Sydney on April 30 of Mr. John vis Samuels —better known as ck” —a well-known, post-war ritorian of Port Moresby. [r. Samuels had been station lager for Qantas Empire Airways Port Moresby since 1951; he ed the company in 1943. e was born in Edinburgh 44 rs ago and is survived by his ! and two young children. He been in hospital in Sydney for hort time and at the time of death had expected to be harged and return to Port esby within a matter of days.

Mrs. M. L. Rudling

s. M. L. Rudling, widow of the Mr. T. G. Rudling, and srly a Tonga resident, died ~nd on May 28. Mr. ng was well known in Tonga Elector of Customs, at Vavau.

Rudling was 69, and the mother fht children, most of whom are mts of New Zealand.

Mr. W. A. Boucher

W. A. Boucher, a prominent ess man of Auckland, died in o, NZ, on May 28, very sud was well known in Tonga, be his firm, Speddings Limited, been agents in New Zealand be Government of Tonga for g time.

Virs. Elizabeth Muir

J death occurred at Suva on 9, of Mrs. Elizabeth Muir, a known personality among the residents of Suva. Mrs. Muir to Fiji with her husband the Mr. James Muir, 42 years ago,

fropi Both were born in

Lancashire, England.

Mrs. Muir helped her husband to run his bookshop at the Corner of Pier Street and Renwick Road. In conjunction with the newsagents business they ran a kava saloon for Europeans.

The premises became well known as Muir’s Corner, and round about eleven o’clock it was patronised by many of Suva’s leading businessmen accustomed to a morning bowl of kava. At Muir’s saloon much gossip was to be heard of cutters due, or overdue, the prospects of a “blow ; ’, and what “they” were saying “on the beach.”

It was a valuable source of information for a newspaper man doing his rounds, and for the visitor in search of local colour.

Mrs. Muir was a sincere woman who was highly respected. She is survived by her daughter, Mrs.

Edith Williams, of Suva, and two grandchildren. A son Jack died in December, 1955.

Sir Henry Milne Scott

See story on page 61, this issue.

t Miss E. M. Priest, Methodist Mission nursing Sister at Mendi, S.

Highlands, Papua, has become en gaged to Mr. Denis Daniel, of the Commonwealth Dept, of Works.

They will marry later this year and return to the Territory. t At the meeting of the Pacific Islands' Society in Sydney on May 24, guest-speaker was Mr. F. C.

James, who described a tour though Japan and illustrated it with coloured films. Films of Bali and Indonesia were also shown during the evening.

Mr. J. P. Samuels.

Photo by Papuan Prints.