Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. H. C. Corry Mr. Harold Claud Corry, a planter in the BSIP for many years, died in Sydney on June 6. He was 65.

Mr. Corry, who was born in Ireland, went to the BSIP about 1913, where he owned Ivatu planta tion and Rere Point.

When the Japanese invaded the Solomons in 1942, Mr. Corry was one of the last to leave. In Aus tralia he joined the BSIP Force, and returned to the Islands with the rank of captain to take part in the Battle of Guadalcanal.

He left the BSIP in 1948 to live in Australia.

He is survived by Mrs. Corry, and four children, all of whom live in Sydney.

Mrs. Elizabeth Carr Mrs. Elizabeth Carr, a well-known Norfolk Islander, died in the island hospital on July 27, aged 77.

She was a daughter of Ephraim and Polly Christian, of Norfolk Island, and a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian and John Adams, of Bounty fame.

Mrs. Carr was a prominent member of the Methodist community and was church organist for 45 years. She opened the guest house, Eureka, after the Second World War, and ran it for several years.

She is survived by her husband, Mr. Alec Carr.

Mr. G. G. Kermode Mr. George Grahame Kermode, who created the fingerprint and photo graphic sections of the Fiji Police Department, died at Sydney on August 10, aged 79.

He went to Fiji in 1908 from Tamworth. NSW, to join the staff of the CSR Co. Ltd. Four years later he entered the Customs Department, and in 1914 he became a sub-inspector in the police.

He was stationed in several districts in the Colony, and when he retired in 1945 he was a superintendent in charge of the Western District.

A conscientious officer whose enthusiasm in the service was not lessened by the years, Mr. Kermode started the fingerprint department, an essential part of modern crime detec tion, in 1938; the photographic section followed.

Mr. Kermode is survived by two sons, Mr, R. G. Kermode, MLC, of Lautoka, and Mr. Dennis Kermode, of Perth, and a daughter, Mrs.

Harvey Hunt, of Suva.

Mr. E. C. Robinson Mr. Enoch Cobcroft Robinson, MBE, died at his home at Rocky Point, Norfolk Island, on August 2, aged 88.

In April Mr. Robinson and his wife had celebrated 65 years of married life ( PIM , June, p. 113).

As a young man Mr. Robinson was engaged as a whaler round the Norfolk Island coast, but later he turned to farming.

He fought in the Boer War, and later represented his island at the corona tion of King Edward VII.

Mr. Robinson served on the Norfolk Island Executive and Advisory Councils for more than 20 years, and four times was Norfolk Island Council president.

He is survived by Mrs. Robinson, one son and four daughters.

Rev. L. Chaize, SM The Rev. Father Leon Chaize, SM, who died at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Sydney, on July 16, was a pioneer of the Marist Fathers Province of Oceania, which em braces the Pacific missions. He was 79.

He was born in France and was ordained in Belgium in 1911. In that year he went to Bougainville, and remained in that area till 1935, when he went to Provincial Headquarters, Hunter’s Hill, Sydney.

In 1956 Father Chaize received permission from his superiors to spend his remaining years in the Solomons. He stayed there for eight years, when failing health forced him to return to Sydney.

Mr. H. F. Caine Mr. Henry Frederick Caine, i member of an old and well-knowi Suva family, died on July 30. H< became ill at Lautoka last year.

He was a son of Mr. F. Caine who founded Caine’s Studios.

During World War 11, he servec m the Solomons with the Ist Fii Battalion.

He married Miss Joanna Sinclaii and they had eight children, one oi whom was in the Suva yach Sigawale when she left Suva severa months ago for New Zealand anc never arrived at her destination.

Miss E. Coward Miss Elsie Coward, 86, who livec m Fiji for nearly 80 years, died a Mt. Wellington, Auckland, on July 20 Mr. P. J. Sheehan Mr. P J. (Paddy) Sheehan, whc died at Auckland on August 19 at the aged of 82, was well known in Fii before World War I when he wa« there for the construction of Suva’s Grand Pacific Hotel.

A noted New Zealand Rugb) player, he is generally credited witf having introduced Rugby to the Fijians.

Mr. H. H. Whittaker Mr. H. H. Whittaker, formerly oi Fiji, died in the Solomon Islands or July 10. He was born at Dunedin New Zealand, and qualified as a sur veyor.

He served with the Royal En gmeers in the First World War.

Mr. Whittaker, when he lived ir Fiji, married Miss Francis Bowerman a member of a well known Suvz family who survives him.

He is also survived by a son, John and a daughter, Mrs. Olga Hutchin son, of Paraparaumu, NZ.

Mr. 0. B. Krause Mr. Oswald Bertie Krause, whc was a merchant in Nukualofa foi many years, died at Auckland on July 25.

Mr. G. A. Duncan Mr. George Albert Duncan, a Boer War veteran, and former trader of Tonga, died at Auckland on July 22 at the age of 89.

Mr. B. T. Storck Mr. Bernard Thomas Storck, a descendant of a Fiji pioneer, died at Auckland on August 16, after a brief illness. He was 50.

Mr. Robinson.