Deaths Of Islands People

Mrs. Lloyd Ambler The death occurred at Auckland on November 6, of Mrs. Dorothy Forster Ambler, wife of Mr. Lloyd Ambler, formerly of Fiji and the British Solomon Islands.

Mrs. Ambler lived in Suva from 1921 to 1945. Her home was always open to officials and their wives from the Western Pacific High Com mission Territories who happened to visit the Colony.

Her brother, the late Major C. A.

Swinbourne. who served in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Administra tion, was later a president of the Pacific Islands Society in Sydney.

Mrs. Ambler is survived by her husband, a daughter June (Mrs, Mackley of Takapuna, NZ), and a son Brian (who is a bank officer in Gisborne).

Mr. F. W. Brooks The death occurred in Sydney on November 9, of Mr. Fred W. Brooks,

of the Sydney suburb of Fairlight and formerly of Fiji. Mr. Brooks was with the CSR company in Labasa for many years. He left a widow, Gwen, and a daughter, Bonnie (Mrs. W. Arnot).

Adi Mere Adi Mere Naileqe Tavaiqia, the Tui Vuda (head of Vuda), died at the Lautoka Hospital, Fiji, on December 13, aged 57.

She was highly respected through out the Colony as an outstanding leader of the Fijians in her area, and she devoted much of her life to the welfare of the people of her village of Viseisei, near Lautoka.

The spectacular work of Adi Mere and her people in welcoming the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh when they passed through Viseisei on February 2, 1963, received close at tention from the overseas Press.

She was buried at Viseisei with full Fijian ceremonial.