Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. H. F. Waters Mr. Harold Foss Waters, who died at the Concord Repatriation Hospital on January 10, aged 70, was well known as a plantation manager in the BSIP and New Ireland. He was born in Victoria and served in the two World Wars.

As a member of the 22nd Battalion, Ist AIF, he served at Gallipoli and in France, and was wounded at Pozieres in 1916. He was later in valided home.

In 1923, Mr. Waters joined Levers Plantations, BSIP, as a plantation manager. Later he took over the man agement of a Burns Philp plantation in New Ireland.

In World War II he was one of a party which made a dramatic escape from New Ireland after the Japanese invasion. The party reached Port Moresby during the Coral Sea battle.

In Sydney, Mr. Waters joined the new-formed Solomon Islands Labour Corps, with the rank of captain, and spent two years with that corps in the Solomons, before joining the Allied Intelligence Bureau at Torokina, working in conjunction with the US Navy. He remained with that bureau till the end of the war.

Mr. Waters returned to Australia in 1946 and settled at St. Mary’s, near Sydney.

His widow survives him.

Mr. R. McGinley Mr. Roy McGinley, a former resident of Fiji, died in Auckland on March 10. He went to Fiji from New Zealand after World War I as a Public Works engineer.

Later he set up business as a garage proprietor, and became manager of Suva Motors Ltd. When he retired he and Mrs. McGinley, the former Miss Viti Corbett, went to Auckland to live.

He was an enthusiastic fisherman, and was active among Suva launch owners and yachtsmen.

Dr. H. S. Evans Dr. Humphrey Silvester Evans, who died in Fiji in March at the age of 75, had a distinguished career in British Colonial territories as a doctor, entomologist and administrator.

He spent much of his career in Fiji. As a doctor he served in many parts of the Colony; as an entomo logist he became well known for his collections.

Dr. Evans reached the post of

Deputy Director Medical Services in Fiji, and on his retirement was re-employed as Commissioner and Medical Officer on Rotuma.

Captain F. Hindle Captain Frank Hindle, commodore of the China Navigation Co. fleet, collapsed and died while berthing his ship, the Soochow, at Samarai, on March 14.

Captain Hindle, who was 56, became commodore of the China Navigation Co. fleet late in 1961.

He served his apprenticeship in the Atlantic with Canadian Pacific Steamships, and was once fifth officer of the Empress of Britain.

He joined the China Navigation Co. as second officer in 1930 and served throughout World War II as a chief officer in Eastern and New Guinea waters.

Captain Hindle was promoted to master in 1949, and took over the Sinkiang in Hong Kong in 1954.

He is survived by Mrs. Hindle and three children who live at the Sydney suburb of Seaforth.

Chief Mutu A Samoan who represented Ameri can Samoa at the World’s Fair of 50 years ago died on February 24.

He was Chief Mutu, of Fagatogo, who was one of a troupe of 20 to leave Samoa in 1915 and remain away ten months entertaining visitors at the Pan Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, commemorating the com pletion of the Panama Canal. He is survived by two daughters, one of whom is Mrs. Oilau Payes, wife of Captain Robert Payes, and a son, Pastor Panama, who is now on a scholarship in New Zealand.

Mr. Udrek Singh Mr. B. R. Udrek Singh, a well known member of the Indian com munity in Fiji, died in March at the age of 71.

Mr. Singh, a piano-tuner, is survived by a son, Mr. B. R.

Karan Singh, a former Suva City Councillor.

M. N. B. Casey Mr. Norman Brandreth Casey, a former Fiji Superintendent of Prisons, died in Sydney in February, aged 83.

He joined the staff at Suva Gaol as an overseer in 1908, and retired 20 years later as head of his department.

One of his most notable achieve-

ments was the establishment of a bakery at the Suva Gaol.

After his retirement he and Mrs.

Casey went to Australia, where Mrs.

Casey died several years ago.

Captain Hindle.