Deaths

of Islands People

Nanmwarki Samuel

Hadley

At Tripler Hospital, Honolulu,

in August, aged 71. Highest tra ditional leader of Ponape, he had been Nanmwarki (King) of Madolenihmw since 1966.

Madolenihmw is the largest of the five municipalities on Ponape Islands. To mark his passing, President Toshio Nakayama of the Federated States of Micronesia ordered that all FSM flags were to be

lowered and flown at halfmast from Sam on August 20 to spm on August 23 in the FSM states of Yap, Truk, Ponape and Kosrae. More than 3000 people attended his funeral on Tern wen Island, Madolenihmw. A resolution of the Ponape State Legislature said: ‘Active in

both community and religious

affairs, the Honourable Isipahu (another name for Nanmwarki of Madolenihmw) Hadley further assisted the

people throughout his adult

life which spanned the Japanese and American ad ministrations, serving in the field of public safety and later in accepting the call for service in such positions of public office and trust as community

judge, acting chief magistrate,

member of the Ponape Island Congress, and member of the

Trust Territory Advisory

Council.’

George Rawnsley

In Auckland, in September, aged 59. Lancashire-born George Rawnsley was a former assistant public relations offi cer to the Fiji Government. He went to Fiji in 1958 after work ing for newspapers and news agencies in the UK. He left Fiji in the early ’7os, when overseas

officers were being replaced by

local people. In World War II he served with the Royal

Navy.

Vincent Joseph

Costello

At the House of Compassion, Suva, in September, aged 75.

The last of five brothers from

Maryborough, Queensland,

who settled in Fiji, Vince Cos tello arrived in 1929 to work for

Marlows Ltd, and later worked as a barman and gold prospec tor. In 1937 he took over the Pier Hotel (later the Garrick) in Suva from his brother Dan.

He ran the hotel until he be came a licensee of the Hotel Suva. Vince Costello was a keen sportsman. Apart from an interest in horseracing, he sponsored the Garrick Hotel cricket team, and represented

Fiji in international bowling

contests, including the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth. He did many good deeds, but few knew of them, as he preferred to do them

quietly and in his own way.

Tapuai Tuisalega

Kuka

While attending his brother’s funeral at Papa, Savaii, West ern Samoa, in June, aged 54.

He was vice-president of the Land and Titles Court, Mulinuu, and a Faamasino Fesoasoani with extended juris diction of the Magistrate’s Court. Prime Minister Tupuola Efi and Acting Chief Justice John Dillon led a large group of mourners at the funeral at the late judge’s home at Vaivase.