Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. Bill Cash

The death occurred at Mt. Kaindi, Ilorobe, NG, in December, of one 5f the few remaining old-time gold niners of the Territory. He was Mr. till Cash, who was 72.

He had apparently died while get ting an evening meal and was found iy one of his boys the following jiorning. The boy reported his death 0 a road-master working on the lit. Kaindi road, and a party went ,ut from Wau to bring the body in.

Bill Cash had been in New Guinea □r about 30 years and his fortunes luctuated with those of the Morobe toldfields. He worked on the Edie n its hey-day and at the time of iis death was living in his camp on :ie summit of Mt. Kaindi.

Mr. Robert Crompton, Cbe

QC The death occurred on December .3, at his home in Christchurch, IZ. of Mr. Robert Crompton, one :f Fiji’s best known citizens, at the ;ge of 90.

An article about Mr. Crompton’s Ife and work appears elsewhere in :iis issue.

Mrs. H. Leonard Murray

The death occurred suddenly late 1 December of Mrs. H. Leonard lurray, wife of Mr. H. Leonard lurray, who was a member of the idministration staff in Papua from i)O9 until 1942, and Administrator om 1940 until the war-time evacu tion in 1942. When she married Mr. lurray in 1915, she was Miss Pauline ierbert, a daughter of the late Mr. ustice Herbert. As her husband was rivate secretary to his uncle, the ite Sir Hubert Murray, and Official ecretary to the Government, for iany years, the late Mrs. Murray ;as closely associated with Govern lent House, Port Moresby, for 25 ears, and became well known and rade many friends. Mr. and Mrs. iconard Murray resided at Manly, ydney, since World War 11.

Imr. Joseph Sidney Stubbs

Mr. Joseph Sidney Stubbs died at ;ie Rarotonga sanatorium on No ember 28, aged 43.

He was born in England and went ) New Zealand in 1939, joining the üblic Service and serving for a lort period in the Railways and ducation Departments before tak ig an appointment at the Cook ilands Treasury, to which depart ient he was attached up to the me of his death except for a short eriod in Western Samoa.

Mr. Stubbs was a foundation tember of the Cook Islands Public i€rvice Association. He held a Lon

don Chamber of Commerce Short hand Teachers’ Diploma, with a speed of 180 words per minute. He is survived by his wife, a Cook Islander, a daughter at school in New Zealand, and a young son.

Mr. W. C. Gee

The death occurred in Brisbane General Hospital on October 4 of

Mr, W. C. Gee, Frsa, Miee,

SMIRE, who was Chief Department of Posts and Tele graphs, Territory of Papua and New

Guinea, from December, 1954. Prior to this he was Divisional Engineer from October, 1950.

Mr. Gee had a distinguished career in both World Wars and attained the rank of Major. He entered the British Colonial Service in 1924 and served in Hongkong, Malaya and British Gold Coast. After the cessa tion of hostilities in the Second World War, Mr. Gee played a pro minent part in rehabilitation and reconstruction of radio stations and services in Malaya as Controller Malaya (Radio). He retired from the British Colonial Service on May, 22, 1948.

He was aged 61 years and is sur vived by his widow and four children.