DEATHS of Islands People

Dr leremia Sale In Apia on September 21,

aged 68.

Dr leremia was a former act ing director of health and chief of public health. He was one of the first Samoan students to attend medical school in Fiji in 1936, and on his return to Samoa spent many years working in district hospitals. Dr leremia was instru mental in founding district hos pitals at Fagamalo and Safotu.

He retired in 1978 but con tinued to work as a consulting doctor.

Dr William Mackintosh In Scotland on September 20, aged 61.

A highly popular former med ical officer in Fiji, Dr Mackin tosh planned to come back to Fiji for a holiday in October. He joined the medical service in Fiji in 1955 and was based mainly at Savusavu. He was also stationed at Lautoka, and towards the end of his time in Fiji, was patholog ist at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Suva.

He was an active member of Suva Bowling Club and presi dent of the Defence Club for two years.

Edna Bailey

On Norfolk Island, aged 87,

in July.

Born in Auckland, Edna Bailey did secretarial work and was one of New Zealand’s top racing car drivers before she met her husband Tom Bailey in the early 1920 s and went to live in Fiji for four years. She and her husband came to live on Norfolk

in 1930. During her years on the island she was an indefatigable worker for tourism, along with her daughter, Marie. Mrs Bailey was also a keen gardener and a member of the old Dramatic Society.

Clarence M. Dass In Lautoka, Fiji, on Septem ber 4, aged 79.

Born in Madras, Mr Dass came to Fiji as a child, returning to India from 1920 to 1923 to take up a scholarship in agricul ture. He then taught for some years before joining the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, then the Agricultural Department until 1949. Mr Dass is remembered for his plant breeding and re search work, particularly in rice, cotton and passionfruit.

He set up the first Young Farmers Club, and was a central figure in setting up the Sigatoka Agricultural Research Station.

Mr Dass also played an impor tant part in Fiji education, and was a vice-president of the Fiji Teachers Union for many years.

He was awarded an MBE in 1950.

Alphonse Seiri Kapone In Goroka’s Bihute Jail in July, of unknown causes.

Sentenced to 11 months for forging a bank slip, Kapone his name can also be read as A 1 Capone, the infamous Chicago gangster of the 1920 s had been in prison barely two days when he collapsed and died.

Finding no evidence of a phys ical cause of death, examining doctors said they were quite pre pared to believe, “from what his relatives and others have said, that he died from a belief in the effects of sorcery.”

Mrs Dorothy Adam On Norfolk Island, in Au gust, aged 94.

Born in Brisbane, Mrs Adam spent many years in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) with her husband, Charles Adam, who became administrator of Maleku la and other islands in the group.

During World War 2, Mrs Adam became a coastwatcher for the New Hebrides Defence Force.

She and her husband retired to Norfolk Island in 1946.