Islands

Deaths Of

People

Mr. R. S . Bell

The death occurred in the Norfolk iland Hospital on March 28 of Mr. aoul Sunday Bell, a well-known jsident of the island for the past 6 years.

Mr. Bell, who was known as Roy, as born on Raoul Island (otherwise nown as Sunday Island) in the ermadecs 84 years ago. His family ad settled on that island four years irlier.

Moving to Norfolk Island about HO, Mr. Bell worked both as a lanter and photographer.

But his main interest was natural istory. He collected shells for Tom edale, plants for Dr. Oliver, and irds for Gregory Mathews, Under Mathews he became an cpert field naturalist and Mathews’

Dok The Birds of Norfolk and Lord owe Islands, published in London i 1928, was based on his work.

Various birds and shells that he scovered, including the Norfolk vl, Ninox boobook royana and the ermadec shell Trochus royana, ere named after him.

His skill as a photographer was cognised in 1947 when one of his lotos, a view of Norfolk’s Ball ay, was used as the design for orfolk’s first postage stamps. This jsign was, for many years, the only le used.

Mr. Bell served in World War I i an aerial photographer in the oyal Australian Flying Corps and World War II as a telephonist on orfolk.

Mr. Bell had a large collection of lotographs and natural history ledmens which the local people ipe will be retained on the island r a proposed Folk Museum.

Mohenoa Tonga

Mohenoa Tonga, one of six ongans who fought in World War died in Nukualofa on April 16. e was 66.

Mohenoa, who, at the time, looked der than his years, joined the Union earn Ship Company vessel Atua as steward in 1912, at the age of 12. r hen war broke out in 1914, he ined the New Zealand Army and w action with the Anzacs at allipoli in 1915.

He returned to Tonga in 1920.