Deaths Of Islands People
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Iv. J. B. Poncelet, Sm
Rev. Father J. B. Poncelet, ;ran of the Catholic Missions i Northern Solomons, died at irist convalescent home in e recently at the age of 74.
Selgian, Father Poncelet was ted in 1912 and was sent to olomons soon after, spending of his time at Turiboiru. With er Bruno, he was a prisoner i Japanese from 1942 to 1945 sw Britain. Upon release he jnt to Sydney for a time, then Igium.
Eugene Choblet, Msc
Rev. Father Choblet, MSC, :ame to the Gilbert Islands France as a Sacred Heart mary in 1905, died at Teao ;e, Tarawa, recently. tioned in Sir Arthur Grimble’s ittern Of Islands, Father et contracted leprosy in 1929 as in the Colony leper station 1932, after which he returned ru. In 1938, he was admitted ikogai, and returned to the ts from there in 1955 and had been living in retirement.
U Savenaca Tamaibeka
of the first Fijians to excel If at rugby football and to be ed in the first Fijian repre ive rugby football and to be ed in the first Fijian repre ive rugby team to travel over in 1924, Ratu Savenaca ibeka, a former Roko Tui ita (Vanua Levu), died at Dn March 6. i Savenaca started his foot ireer in 1914. later captained a second tour iga, in 1928. ing his club football days at he was one of the most out ng Fijians playing in the r competitions. i Savenaca has been described first Fijian to use his powerful ig ability to football ad je.
Rs. Olive Hennings
Olive Hennings, wife of one best known copra planters on ni, Fiji, Mr. Ted Hennings, t her husband’s estate, Vure on March 3. She was 65.
Hennings was formerly a Corvet, of Waikava, Vanua Mr. Ted Hennings is a son late Mr. James Hennings, a sr of the well known Levuka lilding family of last century, s her husband, Mrs. Hennings vived by eight children and mdchildren.
Captain J. L. Lumsdale
Captain J. L. Lumsdale, well ? outll Pacific Islands shipping industry as a member of the marine staffs of the Union SS Co. Lta. and of Burns Philp (SS) Co. Ltd., died at his home in Suva on April 6 at the early age of 45.
He was an Englishman who went to New Zealand just before World War 11, and served in various Union SS Co. ships. He was first in Fiji as
Assistant Harbour Master; and he had had some years of service as master of the Yanawai. He is sur vived by his wife.
Mr. Henry Robinson
Mr. Henry Robinson, well-known in the Ba and Lautoka areas of Fiji, where he once worked with the CSR, died suddenly at Labasa, Fiji, on April 6.
He was at the time of his death employed by the Fiji Public Works rjpnartmpnt. and was staying at Labasa with his sister, Mrs. Alex Chute, while on leave.