Deaths Of Islands People

Pastor Mohaka

37 years a worker with the [ Missionary Society in Cook , Pastor Mohaka died at iga on September 7. He at various posts in the n islands of the Group, as s at Rarotonga. He is d by his widow and a family.

Mr. G. Shepherd

11-known young footballer in r. George Shepherd died in 01on i a 1 War Memorial l, Suva, on October 11, at 5 of only 24. He worked Government Printing and ery Department. For several he represented with the uropean rugby team, but had at of competitive sport for lonths because of ill-health.

Mr. K. A. Lewis

)f two brothers who went to in the 1930’5, Mr. Kenneth Lewis, died in Brisbane 1 Hospital on October 29. 59 years old. ;chanic by trade, Mr. Lewis ie years ran the Vieusseaux rt services and worked up terprise into a flourishing Later, he joined the Works Department, Port 7. erved in the Army right the Pacific War, but on isation acquired “The restaurant at Brunswick Q’ld., and settled there with ife (she was Matron □e, of Pt. Moresby Hospital). because of ill-health, he to the seaside, at Redcliffe. survived by Mrs. Lewis and ipted children, irother who went to Papua m, Mr. Ronald Keith Lewis, d the Cosmopolitan Hotel, I, until his death some years

Mr. Aio Taripo

Mo Taripo, member of a Cook Islands family who ie title Uriarua Rangatira, cently in Rarotonga. He veteran of World War I. s survived by 12 children.

Mr. B. J. White

enjamin J. White, who made ■k in New Guinea both in d in peacetime, died sud 'ter a heart attack at Garua at the end of October, :nt to Kavieng, NG, in 1941, ommando, then became a tcher in Buka Passage, be ng evacuated to BSI when >s occupied Bougainville. A aths later he went back to i territory, landing from a ne, and helped open the way

for the Allied landing at Torokina late 1943. He was awarded the DCM.

After the war, Mr. White stayed in New Guinea, joining Choiseul Plantations Ltd., Bougainville. He became a well known and respected planter, later managing Mr. R.

Stuart’s Tenakow property, then Bali plantation. In 1953, he went south for a spell and for several years was farming in Victoria. He returned to NG in 1956 as manager of Garua Plantation. Later, he was with Coconut Products Ltd. His wife, three daughters and a son survive him.

Mr. Charles Kuppswami

Mr. Charles Kuppswami, who had been in the employ of the Fiji Public Works Department for more than 30 years, died in Suva in October, aged 53.

Mr. Kuppswami, who arrived in his father in 1908, started with the Works Department in 1927 as a plumber’s apprentice, and was senior works foreman when he died. He was due to retire shortly.

He left a widow and five children.

Mr. A. G. Smythe

The death occurred in Sydney in October of Mr. A. G. Smythe, who was for many years closely identified with West Samoa. For a report, see p. 23.