Deaths

Islands People

R Roberts

the Mater Hospital, North ney, Australia, aged 78. n on Norfolk Island, Kit vinia Christine) was one of children of Charles Chase i and Agnes (nee Allen) 3bs. First wed in Sydney to irles Donkin some years be : World War 11, Kit went • business with him in the erina. New South Wales, ‘came home’ to Norfolk before the war began. :e her marriage to William lie Thomas Roberts at Nor

;’s Chapel in December

6, Kit (always known as ; of the Nobbs girls’)

>yed a great companionship

i Bill. She was always very :h involved in church work.

3Kong K. Pedro

irmer member of the Con s of Micronesia, at Guam’s

norial Hospital, aged 47.

was among Palau Political us Commission members elling to New York for the

) UN Trusteeship Council

•ings on the Trust Territory n he became ill on Guam, rces said he died of internal ding after an operation for imach ulcer.

Tn Simonsen, Louis

Uyere, William

Arpentier

French/Bislama weekly

anga of August 11 reports passing, in the space of e weeks, of all three of e veterans of the develop it of the island of Santo, / Hebrides. The paper com its: ‘This generation of

leers is disappearing. These

l worked in hard con ins, without health care, lout facilities, with small ns and in spite of the rav i of nature which constantly ;ht to reclaim its own. All

explains why large crowds

each of the three cases led to pay their tribute by unpanying the deceased to

last resting place.’

Fred Archibald

Savusavu planter and past member of the former Fiji Legislative Council, in the Col onial War Memorial Hospital, Suva, after a long illness. Mr Archibald came from an old Vanua Levu copra plantation family. He was an elected member of the legislature and attended a constitutional con ference in London in the mid-19605. Mr Archibald made no secret of the fact that, following a breakdown, he had spent some time in a mental hospital and, when cured, was given a certificate attesting to the fact. Frequently, as a mem ber of the legislative council, he would challenge other mem bers to prove that they were sane, and would produce his certificate with the proud claim that he was the only member who could do so.

Arthur Krafft

At Surfers Paradise, Queensland, at 70. ‘Artie’ was well known in the New Hebrides where he lived for many years as the only European on the southernmost island of the archipelago, Anei tyum. He left there in March, 1976, owing to ill health. He ran, single-handed, a kauri log ging concern, and had warm relations will all Islanders who worked for him. He taught the men his skills, and did much to help the villagers, such as in stalling running water. He also built the local airstrip. His hospitality was renowned and many ships and yachts made a point of calling to see him. He was always a genial and gener ous host.

The late Fred Archibald dis playing the certificate which so often annoyed his fellow members of Fiji’s former Legis lative Council.