Deaths

of Islands People

Professor K. P. Lamb

Professor Kenneth Lamb, 54, col lapsed and died early in March soon after finding that thieves had broken into his house in Port Moresby.

He was the foundation Professor of Biology at the University of Papua New Guinea, and a leading researcher into insect-borne plant diseases in the South Pacific.

Professor Lamb collapsed soon after he and his wife returned home and found thieves had taken goods worth more than K 1,000. He was taken to hospital where he died soon afterwards.

Kenneth Percival Lamb had been Professor of Biology at the universi ty since its establishment 11 years ago. He had also been Dean of the Faculty of Science and had served on the University Council.

New Zealand-born, he was edu cated at Auckland and Cambridge universities. He was senior lecturer in Zoology at the University of Sydney before coming to Papua New Guinea.

Professor Lamb had been award ed a number of fellowships and visiting professorships at universi ties in Europe and USA.

Rev H. Andrew The Rev Hugh Andrew, an Anglican missionary in Papua New Guinea for 34 years, has died in Melbourne. He was 71. He served at Wainigela, Eroro and Manau. In his last six years in PNG he was Archdeacon of the New Guinea Is lands. Mr Andrew retired in 1975.

Father D. McGraw An Anglican rector, who earned his salary outside the Church as a professional pilot, has been killed in a Papua New Guinea road accident.

The rector, an Australian killed in a hit-run car accident on the High lands Highway in February, was Father Douglas McGraw of Mt Hagen in the PNG Highlands.

He was formerly from Sydney and had served in the RAAF. Father McGraw was rector of the Mt Hagen Anglican church, and was a senior pilot with the PNG airline Talair.