Deaths Of Islands People

George Archibald Loudon fhe death occured in Sydney re tly of George Archibald Loudon, nder of Papua’s first Chamber of mmerce and first planters’ associa i. Mr. Loudon arrived in Papua 1913, and although he retired to Iney in 1950, he had plantation in ;sts at Sogeri until his death, tfr. Loudon was born in London years ago. He began his career a banker in 1904, and later worked Portuguese East Africa and the gentine. From 1910 to 1913, he 5 confidential adviser for Oceania nsolidated Co. Ltd., trustees for >enture holders of British New inea Development Co. Ltd.

Mr. Loudon was a foundation mber of the Papua Club and a one le president. He is survived by his low, Peggy, and two daughters, ;h of whom married American vicemen during the war. A son, i, was killed in a car accident in 57.

Mr. G. F. Mitchell Vlr. George Frederick Mitchell, a scendant of an old Fiji pioneer nily, died suddenly on February at Qamea, a small copra island t off Tavenui. He was 56.

During the depression Mr. Mitchell s employed as a supercargo on a mber of inter-island ships operated Morris Hedstrom Ltd. These in ided the Tui Valavala, Tui Kanacea, i Natewa and Adi Rewa.

He is survived by his widow, three others and four sisters.

Mother Rosa Mother Rosa, who died at Our ,dy of the Sacred Heart Convent, msington, Sydney, on March 5, is one of the best known members the Catholic Mission at Yule and, Papua. She was 72.

Mother Rosa spent 40 years in the :rritory, teaching in Port Moresby, lie Island and Ononge. She was long the first European women to seen among the once fierce, war :e people of the Goilala district.

Her contagious sense of humour id great warmth of character en ared Mother Rosa to all, and Sir übert Murray was among her early [ends.

During the Pacific War, Mother asa’s great charity was seen at its :st. It extended far beyond her ission activities, and by her kind ;ss and interest she boosted the orale of hundreds of Australian id American troops stationed at, or

passing by Yule Island. The flow of correspondence expressing gratitude continued to reach Mother Rosa up to the time of her death.

The last years of this outstanding missionary sister were spent at the Catholic Mission, Koki, near Port Moresby. Said a friend, “She was a worthy Territorian and a shining ex ample of a true Papuan missionary.”

Maud Luella Dyett A former Pitcairn Islander, Maud Luella Dyett (nee Young), died on her 52nd birthday in Wellington, New Zealand, on February 5.

Mrs. Dyett, the daughter of Mrs.

Stella Young, married Nelson Dyett in New Zealand. For several years, including the war years, they lived on Pitcairn where Mr. Dyett worked as a radio operator. They had seven children, including triplets born on Pitcairn, one of whom died.

In recent years, the Dyetts lived in New Zealand, but Mrs. Dyett paid a visit to Pitcairn last year.

John Walter Forsyth The death occurred in Sydney on February 22 of Mr. John Walter Forsyth, a former trustee of Sydney’s Mitchell Library and an authority on pre-Cook voyages to Australia and the Pacific, Mr. Forsyth, a retired lawyer, had the distinction of having one of the last islands to be discovered in the Pacific named after him. The island is on Elizabeth Reef, north of Lord Howe Island.

The island was discovered in 1936, when Mr. Forsyth and three other men, including an ichthyologist from the Australian Museum, visited Eliza beth Reef in the schooner Wanderer on a natural history expedition.

The men took possession of the island in the name of King Edward VIII and named it Forsyth Land.

The ichthyologist, Mr N orman Whitley, said at the time that Eliza beth Reef had not previously been visited since a ship was wrecked there in 1909. Forsyth Land had formed since then and was growing rapidly.

Jens Christian Andersen The death occurred in Western Samoa on February 29 of Jens Christian Andersen, one of Samoa’s oldest European residents. He was 85.

The late Mr, Andersen, who was born in Denmark, went to Samoa in 1900 as a baker and soon established his own bakery. He leaves a widow and eight children.