Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. J. W. ("Jock") MacGregor The death occurred at the Austin Hospital, Melbourne, on April 24, of Scots College, Jock MacGregor, in cf Minj, New Guinea Western High land, after a long illness. He was 32.

Jock MacGregor was one of the best known of New Guinea’s younger residents, having been raised in the Territory, the son of pre-war Sepik pioneer Bill MacGregor. Bill Mac- Gregor was the founder of the Baiyer River Agricultural Station.

After an education at Sydney’s Scots College, Jock MacGregor, in 1951, joined the then Department of Native Affairs in New Guinea as a patrol officer He resigned in 1957 after what became known as the Tapini affair, and he moved to Minj, where he built up a flourishing trad ing business.

He leaves a wife, Rita, and two children, William and Catriona.

Mrs. A. F. Ragg An 88-year-old Kai Viti, Mrs. \nnetta Florence Ragg, died in Suva Dn April 19. She was born at Matovatova, in the Rewa Valley.

Mrs. Ragg is survived by three laughters and a son.

Mr. J. Addis Mr. John Addis, an old Fiji resi dent, died in Auckland on March H, aged 85. His father arrived in Fiji in 1878.

Prince Louis Pomare Prince Louis Pomare, a member )f Tahiti’s long-superseded Royal : amily, was killed in a truck accident n Tahiti on March 26.

The prince, who was 30, was the linth of the 13 surviving children )f Prince Ariipaea Pomare, who lied in 1946, and of his wife, Louise, vho died last February ( PIM, March, p. 59).

The prince left a widow, formerly Vliss Edwige Chebret, whom he named in 1953, and six children: Vlarc, 11; Aimata, 7; Ivanui, 5; Fara Hinano, 3; Marianne, 2; and Moearii, one month.

Mrs. A. M. Storck The death occurred in Suva on April 11 of Mrs. Agnes Mary Storck, daughter of John H.

Marrinon, an Irishman, who settled n Fiji in the early 1880’s. She vas one of a family of 11, and lived n Levuka and Suva.

Like her mother, she had 11 :hildren, nine of whom survive her.

Her husband died two years ago.

Mr. S. Simpson Mr. Samuel Simpson, a well known planter of Vanua Levu, Fiji, died at his home, Yalave, on April 13.

He was a ship’s master before he turned to planting, a following which ran in the family.

Mr, Simpson, a World War I veteran, is survived by his widow and six children.

Mrs. E. Thaggard The death occurred in Suva in April of Mrs. Emily Thaggard, daughter of a Welshman who settled in Fiji more than 100 years ago at Natasa, Natewa Bay, Vanua Levu.

Her husband, Peter Thaggard, patriarch of a well-known Fiji family, died 25 years ago.

Mrs, Thaggard is survived by nine sons and three daughters.

Mr. Justice Vaughan Mr. Justice John Henry Vaughan, Chief Justice of Fiji from 1949 to 1952, died on Good Friday, aged 73.

After service in World War I he joined the Colonial Service, and served in Zanzibar and Tanganyika.

In World War II he was a deputy legal adviser with the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration.

In 1945 he became Attorney- General of Fiji, and was appointed a King’s Counsel in 1946.

Mrs. E. Ensor Mrs. Eliza Ensor, a member of a well-known family of Matei, Taveuni, Fiji, died on April 22 after a long illness, aged 73.

She is survived by four sons, all of Matei.

The late Jock MacGregor and his wife, Rita, after their marriage in 1958.