Islands People

Deaths of Islands People

Rev H. W. Figgess The Very Rev Herbert William iggess, rector of the Holy Trinity athedral, Suva, from 1948 to 1963, id dean from 1963 to 1967, died ;cently in Los Angeles aged 63. Mr iggess was ordained deacon in ngland in 1936, and served in a jmber of areas in Yorkshire, before ling to Fiji.

Mr Loa Reva Mr Loa Reva, Assistant Director : Teacher Education in Papua New uinea, died suddenly in September, ;ed 37. He had qualified as a teacher 1956, and taught at schools in veral districts. After graduating BA om the University of PNG in 1967 me of the first New Guineans to aduate from the university), he held nior appointments in the Education epartment. Mr Reva leaves a widow id six children.

Mrs Christina Izod Mrs Christina Izod, of Wakaiuna antation, Normanby Island, Papua

New Guinea, died recently, aged 83.

She went to Samarai soon after World War 1, and married Mr Norman Izod, who had an engineering business, a few years later. Her husband took over the plantation after World War 11. Mrs Izod remained there and became rather a recluse after her husband’s death.

Mr Allen Innes Mr George Allen Innes, well known in the Islands before the war, has died in Sydney at the age of 84.

Allen Innes first went to Fiji in 1913 where he was with Burns Philp at Levuka. Later in Sydney he married Miss Alice Caddow who had been with the Colonial Hospital, Fiji, and both went to New Guinea after World War I, where Mr Innes was with Burns Philp in Samarai, Misima and Rabaul.

He later went into business on his own account at Salamaua, where he and his wife were mine hosts at the Salamaua Hotel during the busy gold-mining days of the early thirties. He retired to Sydney for health reasons in 1938, and for the last 11 years he and his wife have lived in their own cottage in Mowll Village. His wife survives him.

Mr R. Takinga Mr Rafael Takinga died recently at Pirumeri village in the Solomons’

Shortland Islands. He was 105. His wife died in 1926, leaving him with six children.

Dep. Supt. Shiri Raman

Police Deputy Superintendent Shiri Raman, head of the Royal Fiji Police’s traffic department, was found dead in his car after it had run off the road about four miles outside Suva in September. An autopsy re vealed that Mr Raman, who had in tended to retire because of ill-health, died from a heart attack.

He joined the Royal Fiji Police in 1940.

Mr Fonoti Matautia Mr Fonoti Matautia (J. B. Brown), a leader in business and politics in Western Samoa for many years, died on October 9, aged 74. His business career was varied; he was a sales man, store manager, a baker and a shipowner. In agriculture, he was a successful planter and cattle man.

Firms he set up were Samoa Traders Ltd and J. B. Fonoti Ltd.

Mr Matautia found time to estab lish a school, which concentrated mainly on agriculture, and go into politics. He was Leader of the Fono a Faipule from 1939 to 1947, and served two terms in the Legislative Assembly. He became Minister of Agriculture in 1954, and retired be cause of ill-health in 1957.