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death occurred in Melbourne June 6 of Sir Beaumont lillips, until recently Chief > of the Supreme Court of the ►ry of Papua-New Guinea.
Beaumont was a cancer and although his death was expected, it has caused sorrow many friends and admirers Territory. Territorians, as a are hypercritical —but few, if bund anything in “Monty” s to criticise, either in his 1 duties or in his personal 3e gave 32 years of his life Territory and endeared him pre-war and post-war gen s. ms a man of great personal ;, and this did not forsake fen at the end. as born in Ballarat, Victoria, nuary, 1890, educated at College, Melbourne, and at 5 College, University of Mel- He was admitted to the bar toria in 1915 and enlisted fterwards in the First AIF. er transferred to the Aus- Flying Corps and served as enant Observer, sen 1920 and 1925 he was a Commissioner for land dis i the British Solomon Islands, :ame a Judge of the Supreme )f New Guinea in 1928. bis work in organising the lon of Rabaul after the 1937 a he was awarded the CBE, Knighted in 1955. ; Second World War he again in the Air Force (1940-46), the time overseas, and re vith the rank of Group i. larried, in 1943, Miss Marie Smith, who survives him. as appointed to the judiciary P-NG Provisional Territory , and in 1949 became Chief of the Supreme Court in and New Guinea.