Deaths Of Islands People

Sir Alan Mann Sir Alan Mann, Kt., Chief Justice of Papua-New Guinea since May, 1957, died in Brisbane on June 20, after a long illness. He was 56.

Sir Alan was bom in NSW and attended Geelong Grammar School and Melbourne University. He was admitted to the Victorian Bar in 1938 and was in private practice in Vic toria from 1939-42 and from 1946-57, when he was appointed Chief Justice by the then Minister for Territories, Mr. Paul Hasluck. He had been made Queen’s Counsel in 1955.

During World War II he was with the RAAF coastal command in Britain, winning a military MBE.

Sir Alan was a friendly man, with great personal charm, happy to talk to all on any of his many outside interests, which included painting and boating. He was patron of many P-NG community organisations.

He leaves a widow, Yvonne, and four daughters.

Mrs. Rosa Raoulx The death occurred in Tahiti in mid-May of Mrs. Rosa Raoulx, chiefess of the Arue district for the past 20 years and a member of the Territorial Assembly of French Poly nesia from 1962 to 1967.

Mrs. Raoulx was born in Papeete in 1908. She became chiefess of Arue on the death of her uncle, Pedro Micheli.

Mr. Hartley Onslow Edward Palmer Mr. Hartley Onslow Edward Palmer, whose grandfather arrived in Levuka before the cession of Fiji, died on June 22, aged 68. He was well known in the business world of Fiji.

After education at the Levuka Public School and the Kings College, Auckland, Mr. Palmer joined his father’s business. When this closed he went over to Morris Hedstrom Ltd., working as a branch manager in various parts of Fiji.

During this period he was seconded for five years to the GEIC as man ager of the Colony’s Wholesale Society.

Mr. Palmer, when he retired from Morris Hedstrom’s a few years ago, was the company’s shipping manager.

Soon after his retirement he took up a post in the Suva Co-op.

Society.

He is survived by a daughter and two sons. His wife, formerly Miss Harvey Lepper, of Savusavu, died about six years ago.

Mr. Carlos Garcia Palacios One of Tahiti’s best-known and best-liked foreign residents, Mr.

Carlos Garcia Palacios, died on the island on May 1 at the age of 72.

Mr. Palacios, a Chilean, had been honorary Chilean consul in Tahiti since 1953.

The film actor Marlon Brando flew especially from London to attend his funeral.

Mr. Palacios was a career diplomat who represented his country in Geneva before World War II both in the International Labor Organisa tion and in the League of Nations secretariat. After the war, he was a member of the United Nations secretariat in New York.

After taking up his post in Tahiti, one of Mr. Palacios’ first jobs was to arrange the repatriation of three Easter Islanders who rowed a small boat 2,130 miles from Easter Island to Kauehi Atoll (Tuamotus) to escape the yoke of Chilean rule ( PIM, Feb. 1955, p. 106).

Mr. Palacios was a close friend of the French sailor, Eric de Biss chop, who, in 1956-57, tried to do a Kon-Tiki raft drift in reverse by sailing his raft Tahiti-Nui from Tahiti to the coast of Chile. When the Tahiti-Nui began to break up in a heavy storm near Juan Fernadez Island, it was Mr. Palacios, who was then in Chile, who arranged for a Chilean frigate to go to his rescue.

Mr. Palacios wrote numerous articles for newspapers and magazines throughout the world, and was the author of a book about Tahitian women entitled Tane api or UHomme blanc repart toujours.

Chief Faivae Hunkin High Chief Faivae Hunkin, Ame rican Samoa’s postmaster from 1949 to 1962, and a former Senator and member of several government boards and commissions, died recently in Pago Pago. Chief Hunkin served in the US Navy before becoming post master.

Miss Marcelle Perronnet Miss Marcelle Perronnet, longtime planter on Efate in the New Hebrides, died in May, aged 76.

Born in Noumea in 1893, she moved to the Hebrides in April, 1904, with her mother, Marie (a widow), who operated a small plantation at Mele, north-west of Vila.

Miss Perronnet later bought a small plantation on Nguna, a small island north of Efate, and lived at Nguna until 1940, when she returned to Mele. At Mele she maintained a

Mr. William ToMutmut Tolai British Empire Medal holder, Mr. William Pillo ToMutmut, died recently, aged 40, in Nonga Base Hos pital, Rabaul, NG. Mr, ToMutmut received the medal for service with the Administration and especially for his work with local government councils. He leaves a widow, Kibil, and five children.

Mr. George lalimiau George lalimiau, president of the Dillon’s Bay Local Council, New Hebrides, died on June 10 at his Dillon’s Bay home. Mr. lalimiau, who was about 70, was a radio operator on Erromango after the war and had been president of the local council for three years; he leaves a wife and five children.

Hugh Claud Monckton Mr. Hugh Claud Monckton, a former Adviser of Native Affairs in Fiji, died at the age of 89 in Sydney on June 27.

Mr. Monckton was a magistrate in Fiji in the early 1920’s and retired to Sydney in 1942. He leaves a wife and three children, Hugh, Basil and Sybil.