Deaths Of Islands Peddle

Adi Ana Qereitoga

Ana Qereitogo, wife of Ratu ■teniloli, died suddenly recently i home of her cousin, Ratu Sir 3ukuna, in Suva. She was 52 of age.

Ana is a descendant of Ratu au and a daughter of the late Filimone Vukinamualevu, of iland. Her husband is the para , chief of the province of iri, and she had been living irement with him at Navuso, a mile from Nausori. many years Adi Ana spent eriods with Ratu Sir Lala and Vlaraia in Lau and Suva. On ath of Lady Maraia, last year, Dk over management of Ratu la’s household at Rairaiwaqa. was always a hard worker ,pable organiser and was held h esteem by all who knew be held a high place in the of the Fijian people, a she died she was in Suva flection with preparations for emony of vaka tara-i-sulu, or end of the period of mourn ■ Lady Maraia.

Mr. J. T. Cleary

Joseph Thomas Cleary, a r of Northern Hotels Ltd., led at the Colonial War ial Hospital, Suva, late in He was a son of the late 1 Mrs. John Cleary, of Suva, i his younger days was ;ed with his father in the Cleary and Co. e joining the directorate of •n Hotels Ltd. he had been ;ed with the management of ipany’s hotels. vas a keen tennis player 1-health compelled him to i the game. He had been y of the Fiji Lawn Tennis :ion, and for some years ;cretary of the Namosau Club, Ba. bleary was a nephew of Sir nd Lady Ragg.

Jr. Nils Carlson

his Carlson, who was well in commercial life in Fiji nga for many years, died hand on June 2. is born at Levuka 51 years 1 educated at Levuka Public arlson went to New Zealand ?ars ago to take up a with an afforestation y. irried Miss Adella Chapman, r of an old Fiji pioneer ;d recently at the age of survived by his widow and ighters, who have married tied in New Zealand.

Mrs. A. M. Mullins

The death occurred on May 2, at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Suva, of Mrs. Annette Marie Mullins, wife of Captain J.

B. Mullins.

Mrs. Mullins was the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Storck, of Suva Point. She was born in Suva and educated at the Convent of St. Joseph de Cluny.

She married Captain Mullins in 3944. There were no children of the marriage.

Mrs. Mullins had only recently returned from a visit to her brothers and sisters in New Zealand—Mrs N. Windle (Nelson), Mrs. Leveston (Auckland) and Messrs. Harold and Eugene Storck (Auckland).

One of Mrs. Mullins’ sisters, Mrs.

L. Navratil, lives in Texas, USA, a brother, Herbert, is in Niue, and in Fiji are a sister, Mrs. B.

Southwick, of Suva, and two brothers, Mr. V. Storck, of Suva, and Mr. M. Storck, of Vatukoula.

M. Henri Bonnaud

The funeral of Mr. Henri Bonnaud, who recently died in Paris, took place at Noumea in early May.

The body was brought back to Noumea aboard MM Resurgent Possibly the biggest cortege ever seen in New Caledonia followed Mr.

Bonnaud to his last resting place.

Mr. Bonnaud was Director- General of Ballande’s Stores and director of many New Caledonian companies.

Mr. C. C. Dallaston

A former Resident Agent at Penrhyn and Mangaia in the Cook Islands, Mr. C. C. Dallaston, died in Rotorua, New Zealand, on April 18.

Mr. Dallaston returned to New Zealand in 1951 and has since been working in the Maori Affairs Department.

Major A. A. Luckham

A well-known former official of the Cook Islands, Major A. A Luckham, died in New Zealand at the end of May. He was 75.

He had had a distinguished military career in the South African War, the First War and the Second War.

From 1921 to 1931 he was Resi dent Commissioner at Niue: and * r ° m *931 to 1939 he was at Aitutaki in the Cooks. He is survived by his wife.

Mr Tupou (David) Hettig

Mr. Tupou (David) Hettig youngest son of a leading family of Tonga, died suddenly at San rrancisco on March 27, aged 48. (Over)

Mr. Hettig went to the U States as a boy. After gradr from the Brigham Young Univ at Provo, Utah, he entered Government service as a statis at the Utah State Welfare transferring later to Dei Colorado and eventually to stat work in San Francisco.

He is survived by his w, married daughter, and two sons. He has a brother in Angeles, sisters at Honolulu Auckland, and another well I brother (August), at Nukualo

Mr. W. F. Watson

Mr. William Frew Watson, missioner of Inland Revem Hongkong, died sudd e n 11 Brisbane in late May.

Mr. Watson, 53, was boc Queensland and was Ass; Commissioner of Inland Re in Fiji from 1938-1947.

He was awarded an OBE ii year’s Birthday Honours.

At the time of his death H on leave in Brisbane.