A Popular Citizen

‘Eddie’ Frame Passes On

P. Moresby's Tribute A Popular Citizen

Port Moresby will not be q

the same without the well-km

smile of “Eddie” Frame—so(

times grim, sometimes cyni

but always friendly.

HE had been an almost const; resident of Port Moresby 35 years, and had seen it g from the rough harbourside vilJ of 1923 into the neat and attrac little capital of Papua and ; Guinea.

He was more or less closely o nected with, or deeply intereE in every step taken in the devet merit of Papua—both as one of Territory’s leading business n and as a private citizen whose ] sonal and family interests v almost wholly in P-NG.

Friends Everywhere

His friendships extended ew where —from the evening asseir of the top Government and cc mercial executives in the Pa Club, to the veteran natives of' early morning market in K Some cursed him, because he a tough trader; some acclaiJ him, because his victories y many; but everyone liked him..

Although he was only 62, Frame’s death was not unexpeo He, and his more intimate fries knew he was “for it” —he admit with his customary wry grin, ; he could not keep going indefinu on “these blasted injections”.

The cause was not clear. Sc World War 11, he had worked I and hard in his post as heao the new BP organisation in P-I -and when he went to Europe 1956 he was a tired man. In Brit he picked up a flu’ bug of S 3 kind, and went into a hospital Glasgow, because of an attack pneumonia. The doctors, treas him for pneumonia, discovered he also had leukaemia, the n terious blood disease that noY' easily recognisable, but none less incurable. It can be cheo but not removed, by injections.

Thenceforward, Mr. Frame under constant medical care.. was active, and looked well; bu was a losing fight. * H Room Was Ready He was due in Sydney from Moresby on April 22. His usual rr was ready at the Royal Automti Club, where he was always a p« lar guest. But at the weekend) got a chill; a pneumonia condil developed; and he died in Moresby on the 22nd.

be people who assembled from over the Territory, and Aus lia, to pay their last tribute at funeral in Port Moresby, gave ence of the esteem in which was held. It was a notable onstration by the people of ua.

Iward James Frame was born ydney in 1895; and after a brief ice, in his teens, as a Stock er’s clerk and a newspaper re er, he went to Samarai in 1915 eep books for Whitten Brothers, i afterwards he married. In , he transferred to Port esby, to the staff of G. A. Lou and Co.; two years later be e manager of the BNG Trad- Co’s branch at Samarai; and years later, in 1927, returned J ort as BNG manager there— Dst which he occupied for 14 s. and which of course brought into close touch with the Burns p organisation.

War Effort

ie Japs invaded New Guinea in 7 1942, and all women and Iren were sent from Papua to ralia. Mr. Frame did much in nising that evacuation. For the under of the war he was an er in ANGAU, with rank of >r. After the war, he was briefly Burns Philp at Townsville, and 946 he returned to what was his home town, as the active I of Burns Philp (NG) Limited, vas a prodigious worker and he , as he would have liked, in Less. ! was a director of: several Danies, and served very many ting and public bodies in an >rary executive capacity. His ? will not be easily filled, r. and Mrs. Frame (she sur > him) had five sons. The two it, Robert and John—both well ?n in Port Moresby—are now

coffee-planters in the New Guinea Highlands. Edward and David Frame live in Australia. The young est son, James, is manager of a section of the BP organisation in Papua.

late E. J. Frame, as he was as a Major with ANGAU.