Deaths Of Islands People

Dr. C. M. Deland . the age of 60, and after a long painful illness, Dr. Charles /yn Deland died at his home in aide in July. He served 20 5 in the New Guinea Medical ice; he was a major (medical) in JAU during World War II; and vas famous as a keen naturalist anthropologist. veral retired P-NG people were is Adelaide grave-side, where the ice was conducted by another -loved “old-timer”, the Rev.

Did Short, who has given a life to LMS mission work in Papua.

Deland was a friendly and a very d man, with a multiplicity of in its. Before his illness, he wrote uently for PIM. He is survived by wife, and their five sons and one »hter. His octogenarian father leceased him by a few weeks.

William James Duncan he death of William James Dun in Port Moresby’s Taurama Hos l in September closed the life of unusual pioneer. jiown throughout the Islands as a i of adventurous spirit and accom iment, Duncan once operated ihan Plantation on Bougainville, - the first air service of the New nea goldfields, managed the now met Gibbes Sepik Airways, fought anese in the air over China, was imanding officer of Richmond AF airbase, NSW, acted as a tech d adviser to Nationalist Chinese ler Dr. Soong—and in the months :eding his death was employed as ledical assistant on Karkar Island. )uncan’s introduction to the Is- Js came in 1922 when he visited father, Captain Duncan, harbour ster at Rabaul. yter an eight-year flying career he irned and for a time operated ims on the Bulolo goldfields. At outbreak of war Duncan was ited to Darwin and then the Middle 5t emerging as a Wing Com nder.

Following the war William Duncan id what to him must have seemed 5 a life of retirement, on a small isbane property. Soon however he urned to the Territory, and follow ; a period spent with Gibbes Sepik rways took up his last job as idical assistant.

Two daughters, Mrs. Deidre Ire id and Mfs. Jess Ross, and a other, Norman Duncan of Ropopo mtation, Kokopo, survive him.

Mr. I. E. Lucchinelli Mr. I. E. Lucchinelli, who gave a lifetime of service to the Fiji Gov ernment, latterly as Commissioner of Police, died in Melbourne on August 21. He became a Customs clerk in Fiji in 1915, served in World War I, and retired in 1951.

Major W. E. Willoughby-Tottenham

One of Fiji’s best known citizens.

Major W. E. Willoughby-Tottenham, died in Suva on August 22, aged 84.

He was a decorated veteran of Boer War and World War I, and went to live in Fiji in 1924.

Mr. Leslie Alan Willis Mr. Leslie Alan Willis, who went to Papua in 1920 with a medical team headed by Dr. S. R. Lambert, died in a private hospital at Mosman, Sydney, in August. He was 62.

After completing his service with Dr. Lambert’s medical team, Mr.

Willis became manager of Domara Plantation on the south coast of Papua. In 1930, he joined Sangara Sugar Co. as manager at Buna.

Later, he joined a gold search ex pedition on the Lakekamu River on the west coast of Papua. In 1936, he took part in an Archbold scientific expedition and also became rubber inspector for Steamships Trading Company.

During the war he was a captain with ANGAU and played an im portant role in continuing rubber and copra production. He was appointed a Steamships director in 1946, and remained on the board until his death.

His widow, Mrs. Winifred Willis, survives him.

Mr. Harold Hindwood Mr. Harold Hindwood, who died in Goroka in August, was an old New Guinea hand whose association with the Territory went back to 1927 when he first visited it as supercargo in Burns Philp ships. He later joined Guinea Airways in Lae, then estab lished the company in the Sepik District.

He was gold mining with several others in the Chambri Lakes area and at Maprik when the Japanese landed, and the party decided to walk across NG to the Papuan coast. The trek took four months.

In 1945, Mr. Hindwood returned to the Territory as first Qantas repre sentative. He was later Qantas

manager at Lae; then manager for Mandated Airlines; and finally a coffee-grower in the Kainantu area.

Mr. Hindwood, who was 58, is survived by his widow, formerly Miss Barbara Marks, a Lae Hospital nurs ing sister, whom he married in 1947.

Rev. Father Eduard Loubiere The Rev. Father Edouard Loubiere, a Roman Catholic missionary who served in the New Hebrides for nearly 60 years, died at Montmartre, near Vila, on August 19. He was 76.

Father Loubiere was born in France on April 28, 1876, and entered the Marist order in 1900. He was sent immediately to Vila to found a catechist school.

Father Loubiere was awarded the Croix de Chevalier d’Honneur in 1953. The French Resident-Commis sioner in the New Hebrides, M.

Delauney, and Monseigneur Julliard paid tribute to his work when he was buried at Montmartre Cemetery on August 20.

Mrs. Ivi Lazarus Mrs. Ivi Lazarus, who died at Syd ney on September 3, was born in Fiji nearly 80 years ago, and lived in the Colony most of her life. She was the daughter of Mr. Frederick Sabben, who was superintendent of Prisons in Fiji in the early part of the century.

Mr. Thomas Sexton Mr. Thomas Oliver Sexton, who was well known in New Guinea before and after the war, died in Sydney in July. Mr. Sexton began his career as a ship’s radio operator.

He was in Wau and Rabaul as an operator for Amalgamated Wireless from 1934 to 1938.

During the war, Mr. Sexton was an RANVR lieutenant. From 1942, he was on Bouganville as a coastwatcher.

He received the US Legion of Merit (Degree of Officer) for outstanding work in the Pacific. His citation was signed by President Roosevelt and the US Secretary for the Navy, Mr.

Frank Knox.

Mr. Sexton was in Madang as a radio operator for about a year after the war. He later served at the Willis Island meteorological station off the North Queensland coast and then went back to sea.

Illness forced him to retire to Sydney in 1958. Mr. Sexton, who was 58, is survived by his widow, formerly Miss Connie Feeder, who was well known in New Guinea before the war as a musician in the Neptuna and Macdhui.