Deaths of Islands people

Mr. Aiipate Sikivou “It is a moving thought that his ;t political act was to sign, in spital, the Shepherd Report on the ji Constitution, so that he can truly numbered among the architects independent Fiji.”

Fiji’s Chief Minister, Ratu Sir imisese Mara, included these words his tribute to Mr. Aiipate Sikivou, LC, who died in hospital in Suva September 5, after having suffered stroke in January.

“We were all sorry when he be me incapacitated by a stroke, for felt there had been silenced in r ranks a forceful and effective ice on behalf of the people he presented,” the Chief Minister said.

“Following in the footsteps of a stinguished brother, he made his /n impact in his constituency, in e Alliance Party, in the government d in the Legislative Council.”

Mr. Sikivou was the younger other of the Deputy Director of lucation and a former MLC, Mr. mesa Sikivou, and of Government edical officer Dr. Taione Sikivou.

Fiji-educated, he joined the Civil nice in 1945. In 1948 he joined b Fiji Military (Territorial) Forces, en enlisted as a regular in 1951. > left for Malaya the following ar.

From Malaya, he was part of the ji Contingent which attended the donation celebrations in London 1953.

On return to civilian life he was pointed clerk to the Native Lands jmmission and later promoted to . executive officer with the Fijian fairs Board.

He entered politics in 1966 winning e Rewa-Suva constituency for the liance. He was a vocal back ncher.

Mr. Sikivou leaves a widow and e sons, the eldest of whom, 21ar-old Taione, is on a scholarship ading medicine at Oxford.

Mr. Robert Julian Dashwood Robert Julian Dashwood, one of e Cook Islands’ most colourful aracters, died in his home in auke Island on September 5 after a ng illness. He was 70.

“Rakau” Dashwood went to the >ok Islands in 1929 after serving a commissioned officer in the 3yal Navy and later in the Royal ir Force, during World War I. her the war he tried his hand at hoolteaching in England, farming in e Transvaal, and rubber planting in

Malaya. Broke, he went to the Cooks, where he eventually became a branch store manager in Mauke for A. B. Donald (Cl) Ltd., a position he held for most of his 41 years in the Cooks.

During the ’thirties he had numerous stories and articles about the Cook Islands published, many of them in PIM, and he published his first book, I Know An Island. His second book, South Seas Paradise, was published in 1963, and he was working on a third when his death

occurred. He wrote under the name of Julian Hillas.

Julian Dash wood was an elected member of the Cook Islands Legisla tive Assembly 1963-65, and head of the Social Development and Justice Departments in the shadow Cabinet under the Leader of Government Business, the late Mr. D. C. Brown.

When self-government came to the Cooks in 1965, “Rakau” Dashwood was given the portfolios he had held under the previous government. He lost his Cabinet post as a result of a local scandal.

Premier of the Cook Islands, Mr.

A. R. Henry, had this to say about

Julian Dash wood: “I have always considered ‘Rakau’ a very shrewd man with a great sense of humour.

As a former member of the Legisla tive Assembly and Cabinet, he was regarded by his contemporaries as an astute politician. ‘Rakau’s’ per sonality was such that one could not help but like him.”

Mr. Dashwood is survived by his wife, children and grandchildren.

Mrs. H. G. Wellington The death occurred at Isangel, Tanna, New Hebrides, in Septem ber of Mrs. H. G. Wallington, wife of the British District Agent, Tanna.

Mrs. Wallington had been in the New

Hebrides since 1958 and had a great number of friends in all districts. She leaves a husband and three children Miss Agnes Pattison , . Long-time New Guinea Territorian, 7™ . Agnes . Monc r i e f Pattison ( Patti”), died on August 30 in Sydney, where she had lived since leaving Rabaul in 1964. A memorial service was held at the Methodist “ jn Edin . burgh on August 20, 1892. She joined Burns Philp and Co. Ltd., head office, in Sydney in May, 1927, and a few months later went north to the company’s Rabaul branch.

She made many friends and remaim there until evacuated in 1941 with ti rest of the women and children, ju prior to the Japanese invasion.

Back in Sydney she returned BP’s head office but as soon as tl Pacific war was over, she asked f a transfer to New Guinea. She r turned to Rabaul, which she love in August, 1947, leaving it again on on retirement when well into h 70’s.

Brother Herman Seringer Brother Herman Seringer, a Rom; Catholic educator and author wl served the people of both Samo for 56 years, died in Americi Samoa on August 17, aged 75. I was generally known as “Fele Emani”.

Born in Germany, he went to Ap in 1914 shortly before the outbre; of war. The following year he we to Atu’u, on Tutuila, where he helpi to establish the Brothers Schoc From that period he taught in bo Samoas until the time of his deat at Atu’u.

Brother Seringer had a deep unde standing of the Samoan way of lif His book. Tala o le Vavau, and h translation of Salamasina are tv important volumes relating to Samoz culture.