Deaths Of Islands People
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Mr. Henley McKegg
death occurred in Rarotonga, Islands, on October 10 of Mr. r McKegg, a member of a well known in the Cook ;. He was only 39. ier this year he went to live w Zealand and was back in mga on a visit to a plantation ty. He had lunched with on the day of his death and while driving home, collapsed car. was the elder son of the late McKegg; won the DFC as a Lieutenant in Europe during r, took an active interest in the business after his return to nga and was a member of the itive Council until 1957. s survived by his wife, a young s mother, and his brother, Neil.
Mr. H. G. Hari death occurred at the Colonial /lemorial Hospital, Suva, Fiji, vember 15 of Mr. Hiralal G. veil-known Indian businessman , and a director of G. B. Hari >. Ltd. vas born in India in 1926 and 11 a school-boy when he arrived i in 1939. When he had 1 his education at the Marist rs’ School, he entered his ; business. is survived by his wife, five ers and a son.
Mr. Bedford Kesteven accidental death of Mr. Bed esteven, of Buca Bay, Vanua on November 13, came as a shock to his large circle of Kesteven was apparently at ig to repair a line running to iting generator, gripped a live id was electrocuted, some time past he has looked he interests of three Fijian near his plantation, tutoring long the lines of what he called ate method” of growing copra, s also the originator of the Irier. left a wife, Joy, and two i.
'apt. Marenus Zuydam
e was a big funeral in Lae, n December 4 for Captain is Zuydam, 41, killed with his :, Brian Badger, in an air tear Mt. Hagen on December 'st Officer Badger was buried ney. Captain Zuydam had
logged about 15,000 hours. He and his wife Mary, whom he met in the Territory, at one period worked a plantation at Banz, but he later went back to flying. See p, 134.
First Officer Ben Costello Another air crash, that of a Vis count in Sydney, claimed the life of a NG man—First Officer Ben Costello, 24—on November 30. Ben
Costello was the son of Mrs. Mildred Costello, owner of Gire Gire planta tion, New Britain, and now living in Australia. He was born in Rabaul, and left there with his mother at the outbreak of war. He was unmarried.
Mr. Leonard William Logan Mr. Len Logan, for the last 12 months managing editor of the New Guinea Times Courier, Lae, died in hospital in Sydney on December I, aged 43. He had gone to Lae from Katoomba, NSW. He left a wife and three children.