Deaths Of Islands People
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Bishop Andre Sorin
tead of the Roman Catholic red Heart Mission in Papua, hop Andre Sorin, MSC, of Yule nd, died at his desk in his study n a heart attack on April 19. [e was 56 and had been in Papua ce 1931, when he arrived from idee province, France. He became hop Apostolic of Port Moresby 1946. s a priest, in the 1930’5, he was
in charge of mission schools 1 then followed some pioneering *s among the mainland mountain sion stations. His 13 years as nop represented a period of de jpment—new mission districts e opened up, road systems in urated (with financial help from
Administration), a permanent
»uan teachers’ training school up, and a steady stream of rature and books, in English and Ive dialects, sent out from the e Island mission press.
Mr. B. Mckenzie
[r. Ben McKenzie, well known Taveuni and Labasa district, , died in Suva on April 22, in late 60’s. Until he retired re tly, he was head blacksmith for anial Sugar Refining Cos. Ltd. at asa mill. e is survived by his wife, two s (Ben and Jerry) and two ghters (Tilly and Florrie).
Sister Clara Mueller
n American nun, Sister Clara “Her, who went to New Guinea years ago, died at Alexishafen holic Mission on April 16. ne of a group of vcplunteers sen to replace German missionary is in NG after World War I, her icipal task was teaching sewing dressmaking to native girls at nleo and Alexishafen, until she it to Australia in 1933 to found convalescent home. Later, she tblished a novitiate in Brisbane Holy Ghost Missionary Sisters, ister Clara returned to NG in
1947 and continued her seamstress work at Alexishafen until she suf fered a stroke last January.
Mr. W. Gibson
Mr. Walter (Wally) Gibson, of Lami, Suva, where he had lived in retirement in recent years, died in the Colonial War Memorial Hos pital on April 25, aged 69.
Born on Rotuma Island, he lived most of his working life at Levuka, Ovalau, where he was in charge of Burns Philp (SS) Co.’s copra stores.
A keen sportsman, the annual athletics and soccer football com petitions of 20 years ago at Levuka
owed much of their success to his interest and stewardship.
Rev. H. Bergmann
The Rev. Heindrick Bergmann, Lutheran Mission schoolteacher at Ulap, Morobe District, New Guinea, was fatally electrocuted on April 15 when he slipped and grabbed a live wire to stop himself sliding down a slope. He was assisting an elec trician clean up a steep downgrade near an electricity pole at Ulap hydro scheme. Son of Rev. and Mrs.
Gustave Bergmann, of Boana, near Lae, he was born in New Guinea and was educated in Brisbane and in Germany. Only 26, he was married 12 months ago, and left a widow and a two-weeks’ old daughter.
Bishop Sorin.