Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. H. W. Hardy Mr. Herbert William Hardy, a former Registrar-General of Papua- New Guinea, died at the Port Moresby General Hospital on May 2.

He was 66, Mr. Hardy was born in Melbourne m 1894, and first went to Papua in 1913. He became Chief Clerk in the Department of Lands and subse quently Collector of Customs at Port Moresby and then Samarai; he was appointed Registrar-General of Papua in 1937.

During the War he was with the Australian Ship Building Board in Syd ney. He returned to the Territory in 1945 as Registrar-General of the com bined territories, and retired in 1959 after 45 years service. His length of service as a permanent officer of the Public Service has been unequalled in the Territory.

Prior to the war he was well known as a sportsman in Papua., He is survived by his widow, Lillian Hardy, of Port Moresby, and son Phillip, who is an Assistant Dis trict Officer in the Department of Native Affairs.

Hon. Ahome'e

The Hon. Ahome’e, a former Gov ernor of Haapai, Tonga, and the father-in-law of Crown Prince Tungi, died at Nukualofa on March 20 aged 62.

Hon. Ahome’e first entered the Tongan Government service in 1919, as a telegraph messenger. He was

Governor of Haapai from 1946 until last year, when he was appointed Minister of Police. Over many years Ahome’e, with his capable wife.

Heuifange, had graciously and gener ously given hospitality to visitors to Haapai. He will long be remembered for his constant efforts to promote the welfare of Haapai’s people.

He was the chief of the Tongan village of Haavakatolo, where he was buried on March 21. Queen Salote and more than 2,000 other people at tended.

He is survived by his wife, two sons and six daughters, including his eldest, now Princess Mataaho.

Mrs. Margaret Lock Mrs. Margaret Elsie Lock, wife of Pastor W. N. Lock, of the Seventh day Adventist Church, died at Kurd Kurd, NSW, on March 2. With her husband she went to Papua as a missionary in 1923 and continued there for 17 years.

Pastor and Mrs. Lock, with Nurse E. Heise, commenced their service at Efogi, in the Owen Stanley Ranges, Mrs. Lock and Miss Heise being the first European women to negotiate the Kokoda trail.

One son, Maynard, with his wife and family, died in the Mount Lam ington eruption some years ago.

Another son, who has spent most of his life in New Guinea, and some years in the Solomons, is Pastor Lester Lock, now stationed in Lae, New Guinea. .

The late Hon. Ahome'e, with his eldest daughter, the Princess Mataaho, and his wife.