Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. W. P. Schutz death occurred at Betio, a, G&EIC, on March 27 of V. P. Schutz, who had been lently associated with the ang organisation (co-operatives) Wholesale Society for many He was 67. was a member of a family well in the Gilberts and the Mar and although born in the 3 was educated in the Marshalls time they were a German iion. :n the Japanese took the Mar over as part of the Mandated iry of the Marshalls, Carolines larianas, a great many part ;an people went to live in the ;s.

Schutz returned permanently iwa in 1917 and worked in the for 20 years with Burns Philp □. Ltd. 937 he took on the manage af a small trading society at g, with a capital of £46 in id a little over £5OO worth of ■ stock. The war soon inter but nonetheless within three after it he had built up this mg group to embrace seven Schutz is survived by two sons y, who has picture-theatre in in Betio, Tarawa, and Albert, a ship’s officer at present serv a tanker in the Atlantic.

Ar. Richard Broadhurst death occurred in Sydney on X of Mr. Richard Broadhurst, I “old Territorian” with many 5 and connections in the Ra strict. lad recently made a business ► Japan and another to his daughter in Perth, WA, and :ontinuing on to New Guinea, off for a few days at his home and for a medical The check found he had a andition, but there was noth uggest that he would die. He ly 54.

Broadhurst went to Rabaul in md until 1939 worked for s hilp and Co. as an accoun- In 1936 he married Mavis n, daughter of a SDA mis who had lived nearly all her Fiji and New Guinea. the war the Broadhursts ustralian life for some years not return to New Guinea •52. :ent years Mr. Broadhurst has

had numerous business interests there; he was a director of J. L.

Chipper and Co., a director of the Bougainville Company and managing director of New Guinea Credits Ltd.

A couple of years ago he bought the family home at Wahroonga, Syd ney, where he died.

He is survived by his widow, his married daughter Robyn, and two sons, Kevin and Alan, who are still at school.

Mr. Arthur Hall The death of one-time Rabaul resident Arthur Hall was reported from Raymond Terrace, NSW, in early May.

Mr. Hall and his family went south in 1959 on transfer after two years’ work with DCA in Rabaul.

While in Rabaul both Mr. Hall and his wife Peggy were active work ers for youth organisations; Mr. Hall being prominent in the Scout move ment while Mrs. Hall’s efforts went towards helping the Guide Associa tion.

Sister Maria Regina Sister Maria Regina, 81, a Mission School teacher at Vunapope, Kokopo, died at the mission early in May.

After taking her vows in Germany in 1922 Sister Maria spent several years as a teacher in America. She went to Vunapope in 1927 and was one of a number of Catholic nuns interned at Ramale prison camp dur ing World War 11.

Mr. Carl Jacobsen The death occurred in Lae, NG, on April 25 of Carl Mallesch Jacob sen, a town and plantation identity whose association with the Territory goes back to 1932 when he first arrived.

He spent his first two years with Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., then took a farm lease near Lae where he first grew ginger.

At the outbreak of War II he joined the NGVR, then was seconded to the 5th USAAF [Fifth Air Force] as an intelligence officer.

At war’s end he went to Darwin to work with the Red Cross POW Reception Centre and shortly after wards returned to Lae. Here he dis posed of his property, Bulae and started Leiwomba, nine miles from Lae.

Always civic-minded Mr. Jacobsen was elected first member for the NG mainland in the P-NG Legislative Council, was first Worshipful Master of Lae Masonic Lodge, which he

helped to found; and was the first president and later patron of Lae Bowling Club.

Mr. Jacobsen was 67 at the time of his death. He is survived by his son James of Lae, and his daughter, Mrs. Jack Goad of Port Moresby.

Mrs. F. Smith Mrs. Fred Smith (nee Zillah Whit combe) who died at Naqilai, Taveuni, on May 8, aged 43, was a member of a well known Fiji family.

In her younger days she was one of the leaders of sport and the social life of Levuka, where her parents lived, and where she attended school.

She is survived by her husband (manager of the Morris Hedstrom copra estate on Laucala Island), daughters and a son.

Commander Maxime d'Andre With the death of Commander (Retd) Maxime d’Andre, in Noumea, in May, New Caledonia lost one of its most respected citizens. Com mander d’Andre had a distinguished career in the French Marines, and was one of that diminishing band who rallied to de Gaulle in the dark days of 1940. He served with the Free French forces in several theatres of war. He later occupied various senior positions with the Army’s legal department. Commander d’Andre arrived in New Caledonia in 1945 to take charge of the Noumea garrison, but afterwards retired and was en gaged in commercial activities until his sudden death. He married in New Caledonia. He left a widow and three children.

Mr. C. A. Adams The death occurred in Lautoka Hospital, Fiji, on May 10, of Clarence Angelson Adams, known as “Gerry”, and a colourful figure in North West Viti Levu. He was aged 62. The late Mr. Adams arrived in the Colony from NZ in 1923 to work for the late Mr. I. E. Michelmore as a chemist. He /ater branched out on his own, taking over the Lautoka branch of Swann’s Pharmacy in 1933.

He continued to develop his interests and became connected with many types of businesses. In 1961 he moved from Sigatoka to Nadi. He left a widow and son, who are living in NZ.

For a tribute, see p. 22.

Never before has New Caledonia experienced such a hot, wet May. A New Caledonia reports that: “The citizens know what is causing it, of course. All are agreed it is due to the nuclear explosions at Christmas Island.”