Deaths

of Islands People

Christopher

Dalwood Ritchie

In Sydney in February, aged

64. Twice manager of Air Pa cific, which was known as Fiji Airways during his first tour of duty. It was under Chris Ritchie’s management that the airline started regional services with four-engined Heron air craft from Fiji to Tonga, Samoa, the Solomons, Tuvalu and Kiribati. He was seconded from Qantas for his tours of duty in Fiji, the first from 1959 to 1965, and the second 1973 to 1974, when he retired because of ill-health. He was a twin brother of Captain Bert Ritchie, general manager of Qantas for seven years. Chris Ritchie served in the RAAF during World War 11, reaching the rank of flight-lieutenant.

Stanley Quigg

At Sydney, on February 16, after a long illness. Stanley Quigg was general manager of Air Pacific from 1974 to 1978 on secondment from Qantas.

He went to Fiji in 1972 as deputy general manager when Chris Ritchie, who

predeceased him by a few days

(see above) was on his second spell in Fiji. Mr Quigg left Air

Pacific in 1978 to become a substantial shareholder in a company which bought control of the Blue Lagoon Cruise fleet, which operates out of Lautoka, Fiji.

Agnes Maud Mealy

At Ipswich, Queensland, re cently. Formerly of Port Moresby, Mrs Healy was the mother of the late Mick Flealy, a former District Com missioner in Papua New Guinea, Clarrie Healy, a for mer District Officer, and

Maurie Healy, long-time em

ployee of Burns Philp, Port Moresby.

Alfred Lepper

At his home in Savusavu, Fiji, recently, aged 83. From a well

known pioneering family, Mr

Lepper’s funeral was attended by 400 people from many parts of Fiji.