beef and rice to welcome him

‘so he can eat the same as we do’.

She is survived by her hus band Jack Read, known widely as an administrative officer in PNG, a member of the famous Coastwatchers unit of World War 11, and more lately as a senior land titles com missioner based in Rabaul.

Geraldine Marlow

At Suva, Fiji, at the age of 96.

Mrs Marlow, known as Lulu Marlow, was the wife of Alf Marlow, founder of the Suva firm of Marlows. She was born in Levuka only nine years after the cession of Fiji and became one of her country’s pioneer women but she said in later years that she never regretted the hardships she had known. ‘lt’s a challenge to people to find out what they can really do,’ she said.

Bernard J. Viggers

In Brisbane, Australia, follow ing an illness which forced his retirement from Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. Bernie Viggers was one of the best known businessmen in the islands region of PNG, with a quiet and kindly manner which became something of a by word. Soon after World War 11, after military service in the area, he established a part nership with Mr L. F. (Harry) Croyden and continued to live in Rabaul until last year.

Ngaeikura Tou

In Auckland on March 15, aged 63. Dr Ngaeikura Tou, a doctor in the Cook Islands for 37 years, was a former Deputy Director and later Secretary of Health who represented the Cooks at many regional medi cal seminars and conferences.

He was a man who believed in the value of traditional Maori medicine and often claimed that China was not the only pioneer of the barefoot doctor system. The Cook Islanders had always had such a system in their traditional culture, he said. Dr Tou, who trained in New Zealand and Fiji, retired only last year and was living in Rarotonga where he was Com-. missioner of the High Court

and president of Rarotonga

Rotary Club. He was a member of the Cook Islands bowling team which won two gold medals at last year’s South Pa cific Games.