[?]hop Blanc, 90,

[?]ies in Tonga

PlM’s’’ Nukualofa Correspondent ading South Seas missionary, Joseph Blanc, died in ofa in June after 61 years in Tonga. He was 90.

DP BLANC had retired from ive work in 1953, because of health, and a successor was id. He briefly returned to ve France shortly afterwards, »se to come back to Tonga, lie remained for the rest of p Blanc was professed a of the Society of Mary in 893. On the completion of lies in France and England, ordained on June 23, 1895. some years of teaching he himself for work in the and in 1901 he arrived in iga, as assistant to Bishop Later he spent some time lalofa. •12 on the death of Bishop le was appointed Titular )f Dibon and Vicar Apostolic *al Oceania, a territory which eluded in addition to the Islands, Wallis and Futuna d Niue. editing the small newspaper le Fafangu he branched out larger paper called the i lelei. eat deal of his time was travelling. Even in his old

age he could still count up to over 130 different boats he had travelled on to various places excluding local boats.

In spite of incessant labours he found time to publish several books.

Mr. C. V. Edens has been appointed manager of the Grand Pacific Hotel, Suva, succeeding Mr.

Wesley Barrett, managing director of Cathay Hotels (Fiji) Ltd., who held the post in a temporary capacity for a few weeks. At the company’s hotel at Lautoka, the South Pacific, Mr. A. Van Rees has succeeded Mr.

Dick Hyde, former Sydney motor auctioneer, who has returned to Aus tralia.

The late Bishop Blanc.