Deaths

of Islands People

Sarvan Singh

A member of the opposition in the Fiji House of Represen tatives, aged 45. Sarvan Singh was bom in Labasa where he was a practising solicitor. He was a member of the Fiji Sen ate before entering the lower house in 1974.

L Jamieson

Leo Jamieson, former manager of Tutt Bryant, Port Moresby, in Brisbane. After leaving Papua New Guinea; he retired to Bribie Island, Queensland.

Joseph Anthony

General secretary of the Build ing Workers Union in Fiji, sud

denly, aged 42. Joseph

Anthony, also closely associa

ted with charity activities,

leaves a widow and six chil dren.

Alexander

Grantham

Sir Alexander Grantham, often described as one of the finest governors sent by the Colonial Office to Fiji, has died at 79.

He went to Fiji in 1945 after service in Hong Kong, the West Indies and Nigeria. He left Fiji in 1947, returning to Hong Kong as governor.

Paddy Garrett

Sea captain who served on all six vessels of the Cable and Wireless fleet, in Brisbane. At his own request, Captain Gar rett’s ashes, his whistles and identification tags, were cast into the sea off Suva by Cap tain John Killick, master of the cableship Retriever, after a shipboard ceremony con ducted by the Rev Winston

Halapua of the Anglican

Church’s Laucala Bay parish.

J. Boyd Mackenzie

A veteran employee of the ad ministration of the US Trust Territory of the Pacific, in

Honolulu, at 60. From 1954 until his death he held a variety of positions in the administra tion, finally rising to the post of

acting high commissioner in

1977. He was known through out Micronesia for his many brushes with death in aircraft accidents. The esteem in which he was held was demonstrated a few weeks before his death when the Congress of Micronesia conferred upon him and members of his family

honorary citizenship of the

Trust Territory.

Patrick Murphy

Father Patrick Murphy, co ordinator of the Pacific Con ference society programme, aged 51, after an accident in Papua New Guinea. Born in

Sydney, Father Murphy was

ordained in the United States in 1953. After working in the Philippines and India he arrived in Papua New Guinea in 1962 where he founded the

Holy Spirit Seminary of the

Roman Catholic Church in Lae. Among his students were

two prominent Papua New Guineans, Father John Momis and Leo Hannet. He later be came editor of the magazine Catalyst, taking radical and controversial stands on social justice in the Pacific. He then served as secretary and adviser to Roman Catholic bishops in Melanesia.

Babs Kongsted

Wife of the Qantas manager in New Caledonia, while scuba-diving. In more than 10 years in New Caledonia, she became an extremely popular figure, renowned for her varied talents, including her piano

playing and dress-making. She

is survived by her husband and two children.

Betty Archibald

Mrs Betty Archibald, 81, at her home, Loganimasi Estate, Savusavu West, Fiji. Mrs Archibald, whose late husband is sometimes credited with being the first to discover gold at Mount Kaisi, was a school teacher for many years, mainly in Suva.