Deaths

of Islands People

Ratu Meli Qoro

Chief of Namoli village, Lau toka, aged 63. Ratu Meli was a former Lautoka Town coun cilor, school teacher and ship ping executive. He was a keen sportsman, with cricket his favourite, and took a major interest in the boy scout move ment. He was made a justice of the peace in 1964. Ratu Meli leaves a widow and four chil dren.

Koream Urekit

The longest serving member of the Papua New Guinea Parlia ment, Koream Urekit, 62, in Port Moresby. Mr Urekit, who became a member of the PNG Legislative Council in 1961, tvas flown to his home in East Mew Britain Province for burial. He was member for Pomio.

A. R. Sahu Khan

Abdul Rahiman Sahu Khan, former Fiji civil servant, law clerk, and nominated member of the old Legislative Council, in Suva, aged 78. An active worker for the National Feder ation Party, he leaves a widow, four sons and four daughters.

C. S. Brocket!

Charles Stephen Brocket!,

principal of Nasinu Training

College in Fiji from 1957 to 1961, in Auckland, aged 60. He was dean of Auckland Second ary Teachers College when he died. After service in the Fleet Air Arm in World War 11, Mr Brockett held a number of senior appointments in NZ

teacher training colleges. He

leaves a widow, son and daugh ter.

B. L. Gregg

Bertrand Lovell Gregg, who was in the colonial service in Fiji from 1919 to his retirement in 1963, in Suva, aged 74. Mr Gregg, a solicitor, became

registrar-general and registrar

of titles in 1950.