Deaths

of Islands People

Mr Rarua Tau Mr Rarua Tau, a leading villager of Hanuabada in Papua New Guinea, has died. He was 70. Mr Tau became a deacon in the London Missionary Society in 1945 and when the Papuans first formed their own church society, called Papua Ekalesia, he became secretary. He was made a life deacon of the Poreporena United Church for his work for the church. Early in his career he worked in the PNG postal service and then became a mission school teacher. One of his sons, Mr Mahuru Rarua Rarua is Lord Mayor of Port Moresby.

Mr T. Fuka Mr Taniela Fuka, a prominent member of the Free Wesleyan Church in Tonga and Town Officer of Kolomotua for 38 years, has died, aged 85. He was educated at Tupou College and was one of the founders of the Old Students’ Association of the college. Queen Mata’aho, mem bers of the nobility and church dig nitaries attended his funeral. Mr Fuka is survived by four sons and three daughters.

Mr S.A. Shah Mr Saiyad Anwar Shah, a promi nent figure in the Fiji passenger transport industry for many years, has died. He was 59. Mr Shah was a director of Amalgamated Transport Co till a few months ago. He owned Gordon Properties Ltd and was a director of the Fiji Property Centre.

Mr Shah was a member of the Fiji Public Service Commission for six years, and was active in Fiji Muslim League affairs. He leaves seven daughters and two sons.

Ratu Senator A. Nanovo Ratu Senator Apakuki Nanovo, a prominent Fijian administrator and a Great Council of Chiefs rep resentative in the Fiji Senate since 1970, has died aged 73. Coming from the island of Kadavu, where he was Fijian administrator for many years, he was appointed a member of

the Great Council of Chiefs in 1938, and was still a member of that body when he died.

During World War II he served in the Solomons and Bougainville campaigns with the Fiji Docks Com pany. He retired from the Fijian ad ministration in 1960, but joined again five years later for another three years. In 1973 he was awarded the OBE. He is survived by his wife, four sons and a daughter.

Mr A. E. Cridland Mr Albert Ernest Cridland died at Wanigela in Papua New Guinea’s Northern Province in March. He was 84. An Australian, Mr Cridland

first went to PNG in 1913 for ser vice with the then Papua Public Ser vice. Wounded at Gallipoli his service with the AIF, he return ed to PNG at the end of World War I and served for many years as a re sident magistrate. He was in private business following his retirement in 1940.

Mr A. Houng Lee Mr Arlie Houng Lee, a well known Fiji Chinese, who emigrated to the United States in 1965, died in Seattle, aged 60. He was a son of the late Mr George Houng Lee, a famous shark catcher. Like his father, he was a keen fisherman.