Deaths

of Islands People

Mr. P. T. Raddock Mr Patrick Tasman Raddock Pat), one of Fiji’s most prominent portsmen, died on May 22, after >ecoming ill the previous day. He vas 56. For many years he was truly Fiji’s “Mr Rugby”, as a player, as an idministrator, coach, referee, and elector. He was honoured with life nembership of the Fiji Rugby Union or his services.

Three times he was assistant man iger and coach of Fiji touring rugby earns to New Zealand (1951), Australia (1952) and Wales (1964).

Significantly, they were some of the nost successful teams Fiji has sent m tour.

He was also a cricketer of more han ordinary ability. He toured 4ew Zealand twice with Fiji teams in 1948 and in 1954, when he was :aptain. One of the members of the 1954 team was a close friend, Ratu C. K. T. Mara, who is now Ratu Sir Camisese Mara, Prime Minister of -iji. The pair were the “long and the ihort” Ratu Sir Kamisese a owering 6 ft 6 in, Pat Raddock a iiminutive 5 ft 4V-2 in (he always in listed on that half-inch).

Mr Raddock was also a good lockey player in his younger days, md later helped as an admin strator. In fact, he would have spent i large part of his life at Albert

3 ark, Suva, Fiji headquarters for

ugby, cricket and soccer.

He worked for the Labour Department for many years, and lad acted as Commissioner of Labour. On his retirement from the :ivil service he joined the staff of Lope Allman, soap and biscuit nanufacturers as staff officer.

He leaves a widow, Sophia, and a daughter.

Mr James Roy Vicary

Roy Vicary, an Australian who worked in the New Guinea goldmin ing industry in the 30s and was a Royal Australian Air Force in dulgence officer in Dutch New Guinea during World War II has died in Melbourne, aged 73.

In January, 1942, Roy Vicary and bis yawl Gitana helped to evacuate

civilian residents of New Guinea fleeing the Japanese invasion.

Following his RAAF service, he joined the allied translator and in terpreter section before being at tached to the Ist US Army Corps, the only Australian with this group of Americans, and served with them in the invasion of the Philippines.

Following service with the oc cupation forces in Japan, he return ed to New Guinea as senior agricultural officer at Madang, where he spent 17 years before retir ing to Melbourne in 1965.

Mr Peter Livingston The death occurred in Sydney in May of Mr Peter Livingston, for many years a member of the Papua New Guinea Administration, and a pioneer in broadcasting in Papua New Guinea. He was 62.

Peter Livingston went to Port Moresby early in World War II with the Australian Army and was a member of the Papuan Admin istrative Unit. One of his more im portant postings at that time was to the teaching staff of the Sogeri High

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School, outside Port Moresby, which over the years has produced many Papua New Guinean students who have made their mark.

At the end of the war he transfer red to the new civil government, which for the first time combined the administrations of Papua and the trusteeship territory of New Guinea. As a member of the Special Services Division of the Department of Education, Peter Livingston was present at an important meeting on July 1, 1946, when the Australian Broadcasting Commission began its operations in PNG, using the facili ties of the old army broadcasting unit, in which Peter had also been involved. The division agreed to or ganise and broadcast all program mes over the ABC which were de signed especially for Papua New Guineans, and this arrangement continued for the next 16 years.

Peter Livingston was a key figure in the development of these pro grammes, which were broadcast territory-wide, and as a fluent Motu speaker, with a sympathetic unders tanding of the needs of the people, his work did much to assist in laying the foundations of a national identi ty in those early days.

While with the Education Depart ment he wrote or edited several books for children, a large number of radio scripts (many of them while on secondment to the ABC in Sydney), and he was also seconded at one point to the UN Information Bureau in Port Moresby.

He never married and when he retired from the PNG Admin istration in 1974, after more than 30 years in PNG, he enthusiastically took up one of his many loves, paint ing, and held two art exhibitions in Sydney. He was a regular book reviewer for PIM, specialising in books on Islands literature and art, subjects on which he was very well informed. Peter Livingston was a warm and generous man, with a bubbling sense of humour, and a wide circle of friends.

He leaves a married sister. SI.

Mr M. Jagroop Mr Mohan Jagroop, who founded a transport firm in Fiji more than 40 years ago, has died. He was 79.

After working in a Suva firm he started a cargo lorry business, which is now Mohan and Sons Ltd, man aged by two of his sons.