Deaths Of Islands People

Mrs. C. A. Monk s. Rose Mary Aimee Monk, who at Suva on June 6 was a mem )f the Huon family who were settlers in Fiji. th her husband, Mr. C. A. e) Monk, she was engaged in al enterprises at Suva and in ry areas. s. Monk started a cafe in Suva iater rented the Oceanic Hotel, which she ran as a boarding . In 1938 she started Korolevu House, which was later to be , under the influence of the late lugh Ragg, the world famous ievu Beach Hotel. 1944 Mrs. Monk and her hus took over the Sigatoka Hotel, years earlier Mr. Monk had up the licence of the Navua , and they ran the two enter for several years. They retired 55 to live at Korotogo.

Mr. Walter Clifford . Walter Clifford, who died at on June 5 at the age of 94, was rmer master of a small ship i carried missionaries from one n to another in the Solomons, was born in Devonshire, Eng but came out to the South Paci an early age. settling in Fiji about 45 years he built a butter factory at mi, and later he installed the inery for the old Tailevu butter *Y . Clifford farmed land next to actory till 1946, when he sold roperty. About three years ago oke a leg in an accident and had bedridden since, is survived by one son, Alec, of Mr. Edwin Sarginson . Edwin Sarginson, an old estab l British planter in the New ides, died at Vaemeli Hospital, in May. i/lr. Arthur Weston Brooks e death occurred in Sydney re r of Mr. Arthur Weston Brooks, J officer with the Colonial Sugar ing Co. in Fiji for many years.

Brooks, who was 88, joined CSR 01 as a field officer at Labasa. >ok up cane growing on his own mt at Maleba in 1909, but re -1 the field staff at CSR’s Labasa in 1922, where he remained

until his retirement in 1935. Mr, Brooks left a widow who lives at Collaroy, Sydney.

Mr. V. J. Shearwin, MBE The death occurred recently of Mr.

V. J. Shearwin, MBE, a member of the BSIP Treasury and Customs Department from 1926 to 1953.

As he retired to Australia in 1953, there are few people in Honiara today who knew him. But those who do, remember him as a lovable character.

It was thought then that he must be 100 years old, not because of his looks or lack of energy, but because of all that he had done in his life and the stories he could tell.

He served during the war in the BSIP Defence Force, and married round about that time. When the Government moved its headquarters to Honiara, he and his charming wife Corinne set up house in “Mud Alley”.

Leaf-roofed, and built of scrap material left by the Americans, the house was surrounded by a lovely garden, the Shearwins’ pride.

Mr. Norman Hallsworth Mr. Norman Hallsworth, who worked for many years in the BSIP, Board, and later went to Bougainville in Rabaul in May, aged 64.

The late Mr. Hallsworth was born in England and was with the BSIP Customs after the war, and later took up plantation work in the Solomons before moving to Rabaul. He worked there with the Copra Marketing Board, and later went to Bouvaingille for plantation interests. He took ill in Manus recently and was moved to Rabaul, and died after several weeks in hospital. He was with the New Guinea Administration at the time of his death.

He left a widow, Marjorie.