Deaths Of Islands People

I. Thomas J. Monaghan

e death has occurred in nsland of Thomas Monaghan, ;hoolteacher well-known and lar in Port Moresby before the where he was on loan from Queensland Education Depart . He left Port Moresby about Mr. Monaghan was 56.

Wallace Washington

Brown

: death occurred at Green -5 Repatriation Hospital, Bris on March 4, of Mr. Wallace a, widely known in the linville area as a Customs and trader of Kieta.

Brown had earlier been flown reenslopes from hospital in al, where he had been a it for several weeks. Death red in his sleep. He was 59.

Brown was educated at The 5 School, Sydney, and Bris- Grammer, and first went to erritory in 1921 for the Expro , and later was with Burns as an overseer. At one time he d at Inus and Numa Numa itions. went back to the Islands after War 11, doing salvage work ’okina before starting at Kieta rader.

Brown served in both wars, eceived the Bronze Star from .mericans in World War 11.

Mention in Despatches. He widow.

Clara Augusta Browne

death occurred recently in md. NZ, following an opera f Mrs. Clara Augusta Browne, ad lived in Fiji from the age She was 82 at the time of ?ath.

Browne was the last sur child of the eight children late Thomas Cutbrush who with his wife and children lBB2. 17. Clara married Samuel Browne a well-known planter fua, who died in 1937. They .ins children, all of whom ■ Mrs. Browne. ’ are Mrs. Frances Mullard, lada; Mrs. Ruby Barry, Mr Browne and Mrs. Kathleen »n. all of Queensland: Mrs. y Saunders of NZ: Mr. Bob Mr. Clive Browne, Mrs. e Watson, and Mr. Osmond ? of Fiji.

I. Pierre Jean Truc

Pierre Jean True, chief 1 officer in the Taravao dis ►f Tahiti, died in Honolulu y a s result of a tragic diving it in Tahiti. an aqualung enthusiast, 1 a broken neck and the

bends in a diving accident off Papeete on January 26. Tahiti’s Governor, Jean Toby, sent Gov ernor Quinn, of Hawaii, an urgent request for medical help, and Dr.

True was flown from Borabora to Queen’s Hospital, Honolulu, in an iron lung aboard a special Coast Guard aircraft. He died a few days later.

Dr. True had been accompanied on the flight by his wife and his sister, Mrs. Andree Cazabon.

Mr. H. C. Crozier

The death occurred on March 26 of Mr. Herbert Caroon Crozier, well known resident of the Milne Bay District, Papua. He was 78 and a Boer War veteran.

A resident of Samarai, reporting his death, writes: “Bert had in his possession a Queen Victoria, four clasp medal for his services in South Africa where he celebrated his 21st birthday. He had been born in War wickshire and joined there the Im perial Yeomanry. After the Boer War he went to Australia, and from there to Papua. In the First World War he served with the A IF in Egypt and France and was unlucky

enough to be hit by a piece of shrapnel while in a German trench.

He always said that he was never sure whether it was ‘theirs or ours’.

However, it left a lot of his back missing.

“He volunteered again in World War II but was rejected for active service although given lighthouse duty on the Australian coast.

“After the war he returned to Papua where he did a little trading and a little prospecting until failing health forced his retirement to Sewa Bay where he spent the re maining years, mostly alone, with books and his radio for his only company.

“His body was brought to Samarai for burial. He was a fine soldier, a fine man and a great patriot.”

William Thomas Kirk

Mr. William Thomas Kirk, a former resident of Western Samoa and a man well known in com munications circles in New Zealand Territories, died at Auckland on March 6, aged 60 years.

Before returning to his native

New Zealand, about 25 years ago, Mr. Kirk was for four years secre tary to the Resident Commissioner of Savaii Island, Western Samoa, and was wireless Operator at Apia for five years prior to that. He married Miss Eugenia (“Senia”) Stowers, daughter of a well known Samoan family.

Returning to New Zealand, Mr.

Kirk served at Auckland Radio — now known as Musick Point Radio —until reaching retirement age, after which he continued to serve in the communications section at Auckland GPO until his death. He is survived by his wife, two sons, and two daughters. Another son died earlier. Requiem Mass preceded the funeral at Auckland.

Charles Hayward Hughes

“Dad” Hughes, Charles Hayward Hughes, of Bth ALH, a well-known identity on the goldfields of Morobe and in Rabaul during the late’2o’s has passed on. He was buried in Brisbane on April 3. A full report will appear next month.