Deaths

of Islands People

Ephraim Jubilee

!n Rabaul, Papua New juinea, aged 54. One of New

Britain’s leading public figures,

Hr Jubilee had served PNG for 8 years as a teacher, member f the Legislative Assembly nd a magistrate. He was re ponsible for establishing land ourts and village courts in East Britain. Speaking at his uneral. Acting Chairman of he Public Services [fission Pious Kerepia said: \s a father figure, he was nown to the community as ameone who understood them nd who could be relied on for nselfish and honest service.’

Ila Imo

t Lalovea, Western Samoa, i*ed 49. Dr Imo was one of his Duntry’s first New Zealand ualified medical prac tioners. Working from 1961 at ie National Hospital at Motu •oa. he took part in many

Dst-graduate training courses

id in the process earned many iccialist qualifications. He orked right up to the time of s death.

Aynard Neas

n December 16, 1979, in klahoma, aged 73. Mr Neas tired from the US Trust Ter ory of the Pacific adminis

tration only last May. Arriving in Micronesia in 1952. he had been District Administrator in the Marshalls, Ponape and Yap. before going to head quarters in Saipan. Before leaving the territory he told a local paper: ‘I debated long and hard before making the final break to leave and I’m still not sure, because probably I would be just as happy living here for the rest of my life.’

Emile A Tai-Gauguin

On January 6 at Punaauia, Tahiti, aged 81. Emile A Tai, natural son of the French artist Paul Gauguin, tried for some time without great success to be follow in his father’s footsteps as a painter. In his later years he was well known on the streets of Papeete as a vendor of lobster-pots and other items fashioned by himself as a skilled worker in cane.

Helen Bosgard

In Sydney on December 16, 1979. Mrs Bosgard. wife of Peter Bosgard, a well-known member of the pre-war Papuan administration and the post war Papua New Guinea ser vice, lived with her husband in Port Moresby until his retirement to Avoca Beach,

Nsw.

Gwen Fulton

In Sydney, Australia, on December 27, 1979. Mrs Ful ton went to New Guinea after World War II with her husband E. T. Fulton, and lived at the

family coconut plantation,

Makurapau, in the Kokopo

district. Following sale of the plantation they returned to live in Australia.

Gabriel Senac

On January 20, at the Georges

Pompidou Hospital, Vila, aged

55. Arriving in the New Hebrides in 1950, Mr Senac at various times held many pos itions both in private enterprise and government, including a period as representative of the French Residency on Malekula.

Richard Leigh Wood

On December 29, 1979, at Funafuti, Tuvalu, aged 56. Mr Wood had spent only three months in the country, where he was serving as attorney general. As a mark of respect.

the government arranged for a special memorial service to held, the nearest thing Tuvalu has yet seen to a state fu neral.

Louisa Jane Howell

In Sydney, after a long ill ness, at 82. A descendant of the Rosa family who settled in Laucala Island, Cakuadrove, Fiji, she was the daughter of Willian Beddows, who settled on Vunivasa estate, Taveuni, and later went to live in Suva. She married Lewis Howell of Sydney, who was then working in Suva, in 1923.

Reo Franklin

Fortune

At Cambridge University, England, aged 77. Professor Fortune, a New Zealander, and one of that country’s most dis

tinguished anthropologists,

was acclaimed as being among the first Europeans to pen etrate several regions of Papua New Guinea in the early 19305.