Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. R. A. Crompton :. Robert Allen Crompton, a lawyer and principal partner in veil known firm of Cromptons, at his home at Suva on May t the age of 69. :. Crompton was born in ington, Lancashire, and went to n 1905 to join his parents. His r had already set up the legal which still bears his name. ; later returned to England to d university and on the outbreak ar he enlisted for service. After var he lived in England for a or two and then joined the Fiji irnment service. 5 served in many parts of the ny, and was also in the Solomons i period. While on one of his is he qualified as a barrister and called to the bar of the Inner pie. 1935 he resigned from the Gov icnt and joined Cromptons. He me senior partner on his father’s sment in 1946. r. Crompton married Miss le Hedstrom, a daughter of Sir nard Hedstrom. Mrs. Hedstrom a few years ago. icy had one son, Robert William, is a student at Auckland Uni ty.

Mr. Wu Yen Hung [r. Wu Yen Hung, a merchant one of the leading members of Chinese community in Vila, New rides, died in Vila on April 23. was generally known as Charley. i a graveside tribute, the French ident Commissioner in the New irides, Mr. M. Delauney, said that trley had played a big part “in construction of Vila as it has ! become”.

Mr. R. H. Beverley lr. R. H. (Bob) Beverley, a well iwn resident of Lae for the past years, died in Sydney on May 11 d 63. Mr. Beverley had his own :trical business in Lae and was a jctor of Guinea Brewery.

Mr. Tom Snow Slews was received in Rarotonga April of the death on Mangaia of m Snow, an elderly Englishman, o settled in the Cook Islands in ; early thirties.

Mr, Snow was a World War I

veteran, who tried keeping a pub in an English county town after being discharged from the British Army.

Finding this too quiet, he migrated to Canada, where he led a wandering life, working at many different jobs.

He later did the same thing in the United States until he reached Cali fornia.

From California, Mr. Snow moved

to the Cook Islands where he became manager for A. B. Donald, first at Atiu, then at Mangaia. On Mangaia, he married Parani Katuke, of Atiu, and finally settled dov^ 1 - Mr. Snow was m bad health for many years before his death, and was something of a recluse in his last years. But the “Cook Islands News says he “retained his mordant sense of humour and spirit of mdepend ence” to the end.

Mr. Snow left a widow and three children, Ngari, Pauline and Richard.