Deaths

of Islands People

Mano Togamau

4ano Togamau, Minister of .ands in Western Samoa, has lied from injuries he received n a freak accident. He was 77. ie died in an aircraft on the yay to New Zealand for pecialist treatment. Mano was »om at Vaiee, Safata and ducated at the Marist Brothers Ichool, Pago Pago, and at dalifa.

He graduated from the aedical school in Fiji in 1933, iter which he worked as a nedical officer in the Western lamoa national hospital till his etirement in 1964. He entered tarliament in 1964 and was re jected at each subsequent lection. He leaves a widow ,nd five children.

It was reported from Apia

hat a youth was playing

round a small truck outside dano’s office and started it.

Tie truck sped forward

hrough the wall of the office ind hit a desk, which was ap

>arently pushed forward, pin

ling Mano to the wall.

Mr R.V. Chetty Mr R.V. (Matthew) Chetty, ormer Mayor of Savusavu,

Fiji, has died, aged 73. He was a builder and furniture maker.

Mr Chetty was an active mem ber of St Leonard’s Anglican Church. He left a widow, 11 sons and four daughters.

Captain J. McK. Araott Captain John McKenzie Amott, well known in the Pa cific particularly the Gilbert Islands and Tavalu, as master of LMS ship John Williams, has died in England. He was cremated and his ashes were sent to the LMS at Tarawa, where they were scattered in

the lagoon.

Mr N. Reddy Mr Narsimullu Reddy, the eldest of five brothers in the Fiji building firm of Reddy Construction Co, has died, aged 55. He was an active sup porter of the Suva branch of the India Sanmarga Ikya

Sangam.

S. K. Havea Setaleki Kaveinga Havea, as sistant director of extension services of University of the Pacific, has died at Kolomo tu’a, Tonga, after a long illness.

He was 47. He was educated at Tupou College, Tonga, and in New Zealand, the US and Canada. He became principal of Tonga College in 1969 and in 1972 was transferred to a senior position in the Tonga Ministry of Education. Mr Havea was seconded to the USP in 1975 as director of the Tonga campus. He went to the USP in Fiji in 1976 to hold senior posts in conjunction with his work at the USP centre in Tonga.

Mrs E. Tiden Ethel Tiden, wife of Papua New Guinea’s Police Com missioner, Bill Tiden.

Mrs M. S. Mallett Pianist Mercia Sybelle (Met) Mallett, of Norfolk Island, aged 74. A direct descendant of Lieutenant P. G. King who came to Australia in the First Fleet, she lived in Sydney and Auckland for some time before returning to Norfolk Island about six years ago.

Mr Wong You A Chinese who worked with coastwatcher Paul Mason on

Bougainville in the Pacific War has died in Sydney aged 86. Mr Wong spent 71 years in Papua New Guinea, 65 of them in the North Solomons, where he had business interests at Buka and Kieta. He left Papua New Guinea three years ago to live

in Sydney.

Senator M. P. Talio Senator Magalei P. Talio of American Samoa has died aged 60. He was in his third term as a senator. Before becoming a politician he served as a village judge and as a temporary judge of the High Court. From 1941 to 1943 he was a medical sur veyor with the US Marine

Corps.

Mr E. Robert Elias Robert, a member of the US Trust Territory House of Representatives from 1965 to 1967, aged 46.