Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. A. H. Baldwin

Mr. Archibald Herbert Baldwin, member of a well-know Port Moresby family, died suddenly in Moresby on September 20, aged 53.

He was the son of the late Charles R. and Mrs, Baldwin, who went first to the Territory in the 1890’s.

Mr. Baldwin, Snr. was a master mariner, but later entered business on his own account in Port Moresby and became one of the Territory’s best-known citizens.

Mr. Archie Baldwin was born in Sydney and went to school there, but otherwise lived all of his life in Papua. At the time of his death he was in charge of native labour for APC, a position he had he 1 d since 1937. During World War II he served with the rank of Lt,-Colonel in ANGAU. where he was in charge of all native labour.

He was twice Mentioned in Dispatches. He was, for one period since the war, President of the Port Moresby RSL.

He is survived by his wife —who was formerly Miss Mary Grahams law, also of a well-known Port Moresby family—and by three sons and a daughter. His son Kenneth is a Port Moresby dentist; John and Derrick are officials in the Customs Department. His daughter Dallis is the wife of Sub-Inspector Max Corlis,

Mr. Baldwin was held in high regard by European residents of the Territory and by the natives amongst whom he worked for a large part of his life. About 800 natives attended his funeral and

later held an independent J for him amongst themselves^

Mr Denis Murray

The death occurred in Sydi October 5, of Denis Murra only son of Mr. and Mrs. Lk Murray, of Manly, and formi Papua.

Leonard Murray was irator of Papua between I 1942.

Mr. A. V. Addis

I and highly respected ex ; of the Colonial Sugar Co. Ltd., Mr. Arthur b Addis, died at Suva on er 18, aged 80.

Idis had been in the employ ompany since a youth. In t time he had served Lisly at the Nausori Mill exception of a short period to the Government ship and to the Vancouver d. at Navua. d an extensive knowledge lewa River district in the ;n it was largely populated >ean settlers, very few now g dis married Miss Shepherd, of Captain Shepherd, of He had nine children, is and Mrs. Addis having >ed him.

William Mcbirney

llliam Mcßirney, a well ook Islands’ resident, di-:d :onga hospital on August was 84 and the oldest i resident of the Cook He was a native of Ireland, and served in the before obtaining a position War Office, London, took wife and family to a aboard the Manapouri ry, 1908, and shortly after st uo as a planter at It was he who introduced to the Cook Islands — r e since developed into a )urce of income for the 3e also introduced the first s and experimented with pes of fruits and plants, came the Group’s first . policeman in the early \s a sideline, he designed ed addresses of high me of which was made for i Pomare and is believed still in Lady Pomare’s i. i, Mangaia and other Cook “Mac” recorded native nd set them down in verse i later submitted 3 volumes work to the Polynesian Dut these were rejected as tual prose was required, nuscripts are bemg held in the Rarotonga Museum. ißirney is survived by his d, and 4 daughters.

Blanche Johnson

f Fiji’s oldest European Mrs. Blanche Johnson, ’ Mr. J. T. Johnson, died on October 1, at 85. d been in ill-health for a e. her latter years, Mrs. was an active social worker fa, being particularly

interested in the Red Cross and the Cottage Home.

She is survived by a son, Mr. C A. Johnson, of Sydney, a sister Mrs. Ruby Browne, of Suva, and two half-sisters, Mrs. G. Crabbe of Vatukoula, and Mrs. M. Wisdom, of Suva. Her second son, Jack, was killed in the 1939-45 War.

Mrs. Florence Hathaway

The death occurred at Lindfield Sydney, on September 23, of Mrs!

Florence Amelia Hathaway, widow of the late Mr. George Hathaway, who was for many years a sawmiller in Fiji.

Mrs. Hathaway was an English woman and met her husband when he was serving in the army during

World War I. They married in England and she went back with him to Fiji in 1919.

Mrs. Hathaway is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Albert Baglee, now of Wau, New Guinea, where Mr.

Baglee is an Administration school teacher, and by four grandchildren.

Mr. and Mrs. Baglee formerly lived in Fiji, where Mr. Baglee was a teacher with the Seventh Day Adventist Mission.

Mr. C. F. Sollitt

Mr. Charles Frederick Sollitt, who was a member of the clerical section of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company in Fiji for 30 years, died in Sydney on August He was born in Leicester, UK,

r ed in Fiji in 1915 to work jompany. ter married Miss Daisy a well-know Rewa River rho survives him. A son, lives in Sydney; and Aylene (Mrs. Steele) lives urn. NSW.

S Minnie Walshe

eath of Matron Minnie tccurred on August 17, at ielberg Repatriation Melbourne. She was born ia and trained at Geelong bourne hospitals, and is m in Fiji and the Cook s a member of one of the ital units taken to Bombay itine during the first World was awarded the Royal 3. arsing in New Zealand and ki and other hospitals in £ Islands, Miss Walshe to Australia and was, over r of years, in charge of in NSW. ,d been in ill-health for years and in recent years n an inmate of the g Repatriation Hospital. .s the half-sister of Mrs. :er, now of Inverell, NSW, erly of Suva, where her was on the staff of the >ept.

Alfred Laborde

ath occured in the New on September 22 of M. aborde, well-know planter ignised as the model of chener’s French nlanter in the South Pacific.” ; born in New Caledonia 00, went to sea in the Service, and later served French army during the /ar as a “mitrailleur”, or gunner. He first went to Hebrides in 1926, under I scheme, working for the i Cotonnaire at Norsup on 5 years, he obtained the the plantation at Turtle to, also part of the SFNH He made this flourish, ith the help of Tonkinese nder indenture. During Par II the Santo area :rom a rain of American nd the Yankee visitors to &y included the author, ichener. 5 so impressed with the fay of life in the tropics made Laborde the central “Tales of the S. Pacific,” aracter of Emile de Beque. later book, “Return to . Laborde became the Fean Ferouse, and Turtle ame the plantation “La )ry described some of the oubles, which resulted in the Tonkinese being sent mdo-China. 15 years at Turtle Bay,

Laborde found himself in financial difficulties, mainly owing to short age of labour. Although he had often been at loggerheads with the French administration, and with his fellow planters on Santo, he had their sympathy during his last twelve months of ill-health prior to his death.

He is survived by a son, Gerald, who is with the large trading firm “Barrau” at Santo. t Colonel G. P. Sanders, of the New Zealand Military Forces, arrived in Fiji early October to succeed Colonel T. C. Campbell as commander of the Fiji Military Forces.

i Tahiti’s coffee production is in creasing. From 34 tons in 1954 it rose to 176 tons, worth 15 million francs (£100,000), in 1955. Its copra, which is about stable, brought 288 year. 011 francS for 22,000 tons last

M. Alfred Laborde.

Canberra and Moresby relieve It their divine task NG from harm, to defend e at all times, with what ns. cans of news suppression ed so effective that it is censor facts that could possible bearing on any all. e awful truth is that such ick of independent public n P-NG, that most people il to protest when they protest; fail to see what Ding. The isolated raised e lost in the jungles of ■esby. lan happen that a doctor 0 have demonstrated his lal tendencies before whose welfare he was [ to safeguard, can secretly 1 the choice of taking the ;raft out of the country ng a criminal charge, (He plane). foolish and over-zealous teletypist who made an must always regret, can i with a virtual fine of :en before the criminal a burst of publicity, and th a record. ?ality of the position is [uestion, and the Admini vill stick to it steadfastly, ertson, they will say, was icause she broke a trust. ;s did it, with fair British mow they are on safe lere. i the mor-1 ground they r to find things a little lould, for instance, any the temerity to suggest aps if public relations in ere managed differently aid never have been any n for a typist to hand out ild, perhaps, anyone have i to suggest that if the case had occurred my background but the istion of news suppression, Miss Robertson would re got quite as far as the dock. re disturbing suggestions.

Braidner-

Taverner

Wedding

On August 11, at St.

Andrews Presbyterian Church, Suva, Miss Jean Winifred Taverner, youngest daughter of Mrs. W. Taverner, of Suva, was married to Robert William, only son of Mr. and Mrs. T.

Braidner, of Brisbane and London. The bride was attended by her niece, Miss Raewyn Mc- Ewan, and bestman was Mr. Stan Porteous. The couple will make their home in Suva. —Photo by Stinsons.