Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. Arthur P. Lyons ■. Arthur P. Lyons, who retired iperannuation from the position )irector of Public Works and ber of the Legislative and Exe ; Councils of Papua on Feb -12, 1943, died in St. Martin’s ital, Brisbane, on December 14. ad been ill for a month. *. Lyons was aged 81 and had in Queensland since his retire rn at Bundaburg in Queensland educated in Sydney, Mr. Lyons 1 the Papuan public service in , when Captain F. R. Barton Administrator and Mr. (later Hubert Murray was Judge, in a few months he went to the hern Division as ARM, and for years he was at Buna, Kokoda Mambare. en he specialised in gold-mining and when the famous Lakekamu was proclaimed early in 1910, fas the goldfield’s first Warden Magistrate, with headquarters at en came long spells in the field Resident Magistrate from 1913 1930 when he became Director üblic Works. He carried out, in ion, the duties of Director of mlture for some years, and he the first chairman of the Petro- Advisory Board, ice his retirement he had written dically for PIM on old Papuan ry and related subjects. ; is survived by his wife and one hter, Erma, who is now Mrs. son Lee.

Mr. W. J. Lahore ie sudden death in Sydney on mber 13 of Mr. W. J. Lahore, known Chief Manager of the ! Bank in New South Wales, was lere mourned with greater sin y than in Fiji. im” was sent to Suva in 1951 to duce the Australian and NZ : Ltd. to the Colony; and he only succeeded well in his mis but he also established himself ne of Fiji’s most popular busi executives. This was demon sd in 1956, when he was trans d to a Brisbane managership; in 1957, when he became ager of the big Hunter Street ch in Sydney, he had an endless of callers from Fiji, r. Lahore was promoted to be f Manager in NSW in August,

1960. It was known then that he had a bad heart condition, but he never spared himself, either as top execu tive, or socially. He died at his desk, suddenly. He was 59.

Mr. Lahore rose through the ranks in Victoria, to managership, and he was an inspector in Victoria when selected in 1951 for the onerous job in Fiji. He is survived by his wife, and one son.

Mr. E. H. Griffiths Mr. E. Harvey Griffiths, who was chief manager of the CSR Co. Ltd. in Fiji from 1947 to 1951, died at Sydney on December 30, aged about 70. He was the first manager of the Penang mill when the CSR Company took it over in 1926.

Successively he became manager of the Rarawai mill at Ba and Lau toka mill before becoming chief manager, stationed at Nausori.

Mr. and Mrs. Griffiths were popu lar at each place they lived and made many friends.

When Mr, Griffiths retired they went to live at Bay View, Pittwater.

Sydney, Mr. Alfred E. Stephen Mr. Alfred E. Stephen, who was one of the founders, and twice was President of the Pacific Islands Society, died in Sydney on November 25, aged 82. He had been in failing health for some time.

Mr. Stephen was a skilled assayer and chemical analyst, who had specialised on the examination of Pacific Islands rocks which became the basis of fertilisers, and his work took him to Chile and to many of the equatorial islands of the Pacific. He was a keen observer and collector, and so he acquired a far-reaching in terest in Pacific Islands affairs and conditions. He was closely associated with men like the late Sir Albert Ellis in the discovery and development of the phosphate deposits on Ocean and Nauru Islands—out of which arose the present empire of the British Phosphate Commission.

Mr. Stephen was a regular visitor at the meetings of the Pacific Islands Society. He was a bachelor.