Deaths Of Islands People

][R. Eric Riechelmann

. Eric Carl Riechelmann, mem of a well-known Tongan-Ger family (he was a son of the George and Mrs. Flora nelmann), died in NZ in Feb t aged 34. He had been ill for time. . a lad, he went to Auckland jtend Dilworth School. Later, he ;d a motor firm there; farmed a time at Kumeu; then re id Motor Specialities Ltd. at lerston North. brother of Mr. Riechelmann’s

■rnal grandmother, Charlotte

».er, was first British Vice-Consul »nga. . .

Riechelmann is survived by wife and a young son.

Mr. Rasual Buksh

a motor accident on February t a spot near Ba where another I crash had occurred six weeks ier, Mr. Rasual Buksh, probably 3 best-known chef, was killed. ; head chef at the Mocambo, i airport, he was a familiar :e to patrons, guests and plane engers as he presided over the ing tables. Previously, he had i with Mr. Barry Philp at the :hcomber Hotel, Deuba.

Ishop Walter Badeley

iglican Bishop of Melanesia i 1932 to 1947, Dr. Walter H. eley, DSO, MC, died at his home Jlackburn, UK, on February 11, r a long illness. He was 65. is headquarters were on Florida nd near Tulagi, BSI, and when Japanese over-ran the Solomons 1941 he elected to remain there liding and set up a hidden hos ,l. All through the Solomons ting, he continued to minister :he spiritual and medical needs thousands of Islanders, besides ng for Allied wounded from idalcanal. After the war, he )rously went to work restoring battered diocese, eaving Melanesia in 1947, he was lointed Bishop of Whitby, then hop of Blackburn in 1954,

Mrs. Sheba Austen

■he death occurred recently in ma of Mrs. Sheba Austen, who naged a guest-house in Samarai I who was the widow of Captain Austen, ex-RN. Her husband ran Steamships Trading Co. vessel tn Samarai up the north-east sit for some years, then later k control of native coffee planta is around Sangara until he was ed by the Japs.

Mr. Frederick Green

Jr. Frederick Green, BSI old ler, who was a planter at Simbo, ir Gizo, before World War 11, d at the end of January in Syd

ney. Since his retirement, he had lived at Bellevue Hill. He is sur vived by Mrs. Nell Green, two sons (Ronald and Desmond) and two daughters (Ann and Margaret).

Mr.Angus Maddock

The death occurred late last year at Port Moresby of Mr. Angus Maddock, at the age of 82. He went to Papua from Queensland and, as an expert axeman, was in the timber industry for most of his life, though at one time he was copper mining at Bootless Inlet.

Mr. Llewellyn Tracey

Mr. Llewellyn Tracey, a former director of Steamships Trading Co.

Ltd., and three rubber companies in Papua, died in hospital in Gibraltar late in January. He had lived in Malaga, Spain, since his re tirement in 1958.

Wounded in World War I and in valided from the army, he became an accountant and in that capacity joined STC in 1924; later he was appointed a director and served continuously until 1958. He also held directorships in Mariboi Rubber Ltd., Rubberlands Ltd., and Kerema Rubber Ltd. He was 78.

Pastor Tupe

Elder Pastor Tupe, FTS, doyen of the London Missionary Society in Samoa, died recently at Sapapali’i Savai’i, aged 84. He served his church faithfully for 54 years and retired only in 1959 after having been three times LMS General As sembly chairman.

As leader of LMS delegations, he travelled widely in the Islands —to

Niue, Cooks, Tokelaus, G & E, Nauru and Fiji. He also attended the 110th anniversary in New Hebrides, in 1955, that marked the arrival of Samoan pastors there.

A relative of the Royal Malietoa clan Pastor Tupe was buried along side ’the royal tomb of King Malietoa Tavita Vaiinupo, who welcomed Rev.

John Williams bringing the gospel to Samoa in 1830.

Mr. Ernest Stanfield

One of the true pioneers of cocoa production in the Territory of New Guinea, Mr. Ernest Stanfield, died in Sydney on February 23 after a short illness.

Mr. Stanfield was one of New Guinea’s best-known planters, orig inally developing Boligila in New Ireland and later opening and de veloping Piera in New Ireland.

Mr. Stanfield is survived by his wife, a son, and two daughters, Mrs.

P. R. K. Murray, and Mrs. J. Grose.

Another son was killed in action during the last war.

Pastor Tupe.